With the majority of cell phones shipping worldwide with Internet browsing capability and the incredible rise in tablet popularity, we are witnessing a convergence of mobility and the Web. This is triggering a mobile gold rush similar to the Internet boom of the 1990s. Companies of all sizes are scrambling to build mobile apps, which…
Microsoft has announced the availability of disabling either temporarily or permanently Directory Synchronization (DirSync) in Office 365, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2619062/en-us. This is great news! in BPOS this was always available, but in Office 365 it was not possible. Before this announcement, if you turned on DirSync in Office 365 it was permanent. While you want to ensure…
The great Marnix Wolf has published an article that discusses using SCOM 2007 to monitor SNMP devices. I can’t wait to try this! SNMP, OIDs and SCOM: Let’s start rocking!
Recently a colleague of mine, Chris Ross, was asked by a client to help them monitor the performance of their System Center Service Manager (SCSM) environment. The client wanted to see key performance indicators on the secondary SCSM servers that their SCSM Consoles connect to. While there is a SCSM Management Pack (MP)…
So this is a continuation from my Part 1 blog post, if you missed it you can find Part 1 here In Part 1 I mention there are three primary questions that most companies are asking about Office 365: What is involved with a migration to the cloud? What are the benefits if I move…
In Part 1 of Journey to the Public Cloud we started planning the migration from a traditional datacenter to the Private Cloud model. We reviewed the Operations layer and how it ties into the Microsoft Private Cloud Reference Model and how the Operations layer directly relates to delivering communication to the Management layer. Per Microsoft,…
Fantastic post over on The Configuration Manager OSD Support Team Blog. Troubleshooting the PXE Service Point and WDS in Configuration Manager 2007 – Configuration Manager OSD Support Team Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs One of the issues we troubleshoot the most in CSS are ConfigMgr PXE Service Point installs. This article is…
If you’ve used any Linux distributions, the nice thing about them is a standard mechanism for installing software with dependencies through aptitutde, a package management engine for the OS. Apt uses a central repository to lookup applications you request to install, and automatically pushes updates to these applications to any systems who have installed those…
On 10/22/2011 Microsoft released Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) Service Pack 1 (SP1) Update 1. Basically the update provides the following: Lync web services publishing—Forefront UAG now supports publishing Lync web services Dynamics CRM 2011 publishing—Forefront UAG now supports publishing Dynamics CRM 2011 SharePoint 2010 with Office Web Apps—Forefront UAG now supports publishing SharePoint 2010…
So I have accepted an additional role with Catapult, Office 365 Technical Evangelist. This role is an addition to my primary role of Managing Consultant and delivering for clients. This new role is designed to ensure that Catapult as a whole is well informed and poised to sell and deliver on Office 365 opportunities.…
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