Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.

Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Activation Monitor saying – Error Configuration files could not be loaded from the TMG storage. Check the connection to the storage.

I’m currently working on a project standing up 3 UAG servers in an array.  I ran into a problem where the UAG array master couldn’t connect to one of the UAG array members.  It turned out for some oddball reason the computer account of the array master wasn’t added in the array member’s local administrator…

Microsoft Honors Catapult Systems with General Manager Award for West Region

Team Recognized for Exceptional Client Service and Support AUSTIN, Texas – January 26, 2012 – Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, today announced that it recently received the Microsoft General Manager Award for the West Region. Catapult Systems was recognized for excellence working with Microsoft clients throughout the full lifecycle of technology sales and…

System Center 2012 Licensing

My colleague Cameron Fuller recently attended a meeting with Microsoft to discuss the change in licensing for the System Center 2012 suite of products.  Here’s what he was able to publicly share today on that topic…. Note: I’ve included the System Center 2012 Licensing Datasheet PDF at the END of this post – thanks to…

System Center 2012 Licensing

Microsoft has recently announced various changes to the licensing model for System Center. If it wasn’t confusing before, well it still probably is 🙂 Click here to download a nice licensing sheet from Microsoft that does a good job explaining the new structure of the System Center 2012 Licensing. Click here to download a nice…

Limitations (and Workarounds) when using Managed Metadata in a SharePoint Designer 2010 Lookup Action/Condition

Now that SharePoint 2010 Managed Metadata (MMD) is more widely used, it is no surprise that developers would want to utilize MMD fields when using conditions and/or actions in SharePoint Designer. However, after some frustration, I realized that SharePoint Designer 2010 and Managed Metadata are not yet on cordial terms. Hopefully, Microsoft will address the…