In this blog I’m going to setup a collection for domain controllers, create a FEP policy, apply that policy to the new collection, and replace FCS with FEP on a domain controller. When you DCPromo a server to a domain controller by default it goes in the domain controllers OU. Based off of that…
New Division Fuses Award-Winning Technology Expertise with Top Creative Talent Update: Slingrock, an interactive branding, design and marketing agency, has dissolved. AUSTIN, Texas – January 13, 2011 – Award-winning Microsoft IT consulting firm Catapult Systems today announced it has acquired The Ad Ranch, an Austin-based advertising and interactive company, and has launched Slingrock, a new…
See what I’m talking about(below). It’s blank even though it says 4 items found at the top! Well if they’re found then why not show them to me? If I click Edit Policy Precedence on the right I’ll see them in that windows and I can re-order them. What’s going on? After hours of trying…
The actions of a flight attendant on a recent flight got me thinking about the importance of employee empowerment in delivering great customer service. This is true of flight attendants, Software Quality Assurance specialists, or any other role. The Incident A woman on my plane received a can of soda. She left it unopened on…
Read the entire post here. As discussed in previous posts, Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization allows flexibility to deliver, test and manage the user settings, applications and your operating system, Windows 7, more easily. Today I’d like to further explore Application Virtualization, which is a key component to a complete desktop virtualization strategy. More specifically, I’ll review…
Read the entire post here. I was talking with Stephen Rose, the owner of this blog, and he was saying that one of the top pain points that he hears from you frequently is transferring the user profiles when migrating from XP to Win7. In today’s blog post we are going to touch on Microsoft…
A little background…Exchange 2010 management is built completely on top of PowerShell. The Exchange Management Console (EMC) is just a fancy GUI to run powershell commands underneath the covers. While you can get a lot accomplished in the EMC, not all management functions are available in the EMC. What I want to go over in…
Installation You must have Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1 installed OR the latest version of Visual C# Express which is available for download for free here. Note: I am running Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium. Download and install the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3, available here. You need a Bluetooth module installed…
A friend sent me an article about tools for testing a data warehouse. The article supports the concept of Embedded Quality. You can read the full article here. My favorite quote is, "In DW, as in every other IT discipline, testing — early and often — is of paramount importance. For a variety of reasons,…
Lego Mindstorms Lego Mindstorms is a programmable construction toy. In 1998, Lego created the first generation of this product called the Robotic Invention System (RIS) through a partnership with the MIT Media Laboratory. For the second version that was released in 2006 the name was changed to Lego Mindstorm NXT, after a book called Mindstorms:…
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