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.
I am in the Catapult Denver office helping out putting the final touches on a presentation that Catapult is giving today at the Denver Microsoft offices! This being my second day with Catapult it will be a little different walking into the Microsoft office as a Catapult employee. For the last 4.5 years I have…
Hello and thanks for stopping by. I have just started at Catapult Systems as a Managing Consultant. I have been a consultant for several years and have worked in IT for the past 15 years. I am a Microsoft Infrastructure specialist primarily with Active Directory, DNS, Exchange, OCS/Lync and Online Services/Office 365. I plan to…
My second appearance on Microsoft’s Talk TechNet is this Wednesday at 9AM Pacific time. Sign up for Episode 53 and have some questions ready. And in case Johan forgot from last time, I’m just shy of 2m tall, really about 198cm.
I was asked recently to share my thoughts on some of the most interesting developments in information technology (IT) that are impacting businesses now and over the next few years. Here is my top 10 list. 1. Social Computing in the Enterprise Most employees already use some form of social computing in their personal…
CAUTION: Editing the Database directly is unsupported. Proceed at your own risk. In addition to my previous post, in which I used a script to update the driver paths, you can also do this via SQL. The following command will let you preview the changes you are about to make: The following command will execute…
If you build your reference image using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit Lite-Touch, it’s fairly easy to incorporate OS level hotfixes and updates offline, some good examples are the following: A "Set Network Location" dialog box appears when you first log on to a domain-joined Windows 7-based client computer An update that improves the compatibility of Windows…
Michael Niehaus has a great post over on his blog covering Office 2010 with ConfigMgr 2012 Beta 2. Read the full post here. The new application model in Configuration Manager 2012 will require administrators to study up on how best to deploy software – this isn’t anything like traditional software distribution like you would find…
Read the original post here. E-reader devices use these free, downloadable e-book versions of Microsoft Office help articles as a training book that won’t close while your fingers are on the keyboard. They’re easy to carry along so you can brush up on your skills for a few minutes while you’re waiting in line.…
After applying Cumulative Update 3 for Lync (KB 2571546), users were unable to place or receive phone calls. In Lync, the error was ID 500 (source ID 239): The SIP Trace on the server showed: Start-Line: SIP/2.0 500 Server Internal Error ms-diagnostics: 5016;reason="Request handler threw an exception";source="(server).catapultsystems.com";appname="http%3A%2F%2Fwww.microsoft.com%2FLCS%2FOutboundRouting" I could not find any helpful information on…
Replacing a certificate on Lync Edge and Reverse Proxy must be coordinated because it will revoke the original certificate. You might do this when adding new Subject Alternative Names (SANs) to the certificate. For example, within the GoDaddy SSL Certificate management interface, after selecting your existing certificate, you will click the Re-Key button. You…