Here’s an interesting one – At my current client, if I go through a favorite to the URL for Central Admin and try to delete a service app, I am presented with a grayed out delete icon in the ribbon. Huh…even with the farm ID, nada. Turns out that this client has a Windows 2008…
I am working on my presentation and lab environment in preparation for the Inaugural Office 365 Saturday Event this Saturday, February 25th, in Redmond, WA. I was very honored to be selected as a session presenter for this event! My session is dealing with an Office 365 Hybrid Deployment using the new Hybrid Wizard with…
Greg Ramsey has been a roll lately with blog posts. He’s published another really great read over on his blog. "I’m a bit of a fan of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), but today’s post is a bit of a ‘buyer beware’. I’ll sum it up, and then provide some detail and give you some ideas…
Have you checked out the new Microsoft Office 365 TechCenter? It is the premier place to visit to learn about and help with all things Office 365! Highly recommend you check it out and familiarize yourself with what is available to help admins and end users alike.
This is the most common cause of SQL outages and crashes. The SQL transaction logs multiply until they completely fill up the hard disk, causing the databases to go offline and disrupting service to any application depending upon SQL including mission critical applications like SharePoint, Lync, Project Server, etc. This is preventable by doing one…
So I received a pretty good response to the idea about a virtual Office 365 User Group. I am actually looking to get things off the ground in the next couple of weeks. I am working with an Office 365 MVP in Australia, Loryan Strant, @thecloudmouth and http://thecloudmouth.com/ recommend you follow via twitter and read…
Fellow MVP Greg Ramsey has put up a really great post on injecting drivers from USB during a Task Sequence. Read the full post here. ConfigMgr OSD does a great job of injecting drivers ‘on the fly’ into your OS Deployment process. For example, you can create task sequence steps with conditional statements to apply…
I installed OpsMgr 2012 today for the first time in my home private cloud lab. I will say that the installation is much easier than OpsMgr 2007 R2. Here are the details of the server build. Prerequisites · Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 fully updated with Windows security updates · All available v3.x.x .NET Framework…
February 9, 2012; it was a great day for the Microsoft Cloud community and users! Cloud Fest Denver was today and it was a great event! The crew that put on this event was outstanding; I was really impressed with the number of attendees at the conference today. It really showed that Cloud computing has…
If you choose to install the OpsMgr 2012 RC Web Console on a stand-alone, non-management server (MS), and you don’t want to get prompted for credentials when logging in, the easiest fix is to use SSL. But what if you’ve already configured the Web Console to not use SSL but decide later to use…
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