I just read an article describing how one large company with 74,000 employees is replacing all internal email with instant messaging and social networking. The CEO who implemented this policy has not sent an email since he took over in 2008. The only justification given for this policy is “only 10 percent of the 200…
New Hotfix: Task sequence fails with an "0x80004005" error code in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 – The Configuration Manager Support Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs Here’s a KB article we published today on ConfigMgr 2007. This one describes a hotfix/update we released that addresses an issue where a Task…
So Great news on the Office 365 front today from Microsoft! The added 22 additional markets tonight. Also the Microsoft is reporting greater integration with the MAC OS with the release Lync for MAC! Along with the great updates to Office 365, Microsoft also announced improvements to Skydrive! probably the biggest improvement to Skydrive is…
The information provided in this blog entry is provided as-is, proceed at your own risk. I recently was working on separating permissions for desktop and server groups. This is easily done by separating out the collections and only allowing each group to see the collections and resources associated with their group. However, by default the…
“Extension method must be defined in a non-generic static class” Background It doesn’t take much time in a Bing search to recognize that this is a common error encountered by .net developers. Typically though, you have a precise line or method mentioned in the error details when you perform a build. Within the K2 process…
Lately, during the development > staging > production development cycle I have frequently come across the need to retract solutions in bulk. So, I’ve put together a powershell script and .bat file combination that I can easily leverage to retract and remove a group of solutions. No this isn’t the end all solution and I’m…
So one of my roles at Catapult is being the Office 365 Technical Evangelist. With this role I help educate my peers about Office 365 and ensure we as a company are moving forward with Office 365 as a service line. One of the newer service lines that Catapult offers is Managed Services for…
It has been 2 weeks since the new lab server was built and I wanted to share the up-to-now configuration of my Private Cloud Lab. The ultimate goal of this lab environment is to learn and demonstrate the following elements of the private cloud dynamic datacenter, Self Service, Automation and Orchestration. The lab has been…
Hello, and welcome to my blog! Since this is my first post, I’ll let you know that you can expect to see all kinds of posts here, from very technical like this first one, to governance, to user experience and so on. I’m happy to hear from you, especially if you see any errors or…
Commitment can be a scary thing. Just ask anyone who is moving jobs, getting married or buying a house. The same is true for stakeholders when they sign off on a requirements deliverable. You are asking them to take ownership for verifying that the requirements elicitation and analysis effort is concluded and that the written…
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