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One of my Catapult Colleagues, Eric Skaggs (@skaggej) is starting up an Office 365 User group for the Phoenix, AZ area. I would appreciate anyone in the Phoenix area to check out the group. The first meeting is scheduled for August 28th at the Catapult Phoenix Office (5555 E Van Buren Suite 100, Phoenix, AZ…
Scenario It’s odd, but SharePoint handles links in search results differently than you might expect. To clarify, I’m talking about those items that have a content type of “Link,” meaning they’re typically in a Links list a SharePoint site. By default, links will be displayed in search results just fine, but when you click…
I have setup a Meetup.com site for the Office 365 International User Group, http://www.meetup.com/Office365IUG Please visit the site and join the group to be made available about upcoming meetings and information. This is just another way I am working to grow and expand the User Group!
The August Office 365 International User Group meeting is scheduled for August 26th at 1pm Denver (US Mountain Time). I have scheduled to have TrendMicro present on their cloud services and will also have a recap of the latest new and improved features and functionality of Office 365. Click on the link below to add…
I’m working on starting up the Phoenix Office 365 User Group. As implied, this will be a user group in Phoenix with a focus on all the wonderful things that make up Office 365! I’d like to point out that this user group has never met and is still just a concept in my head,…
Today Microsoft announced a new tool to help with integrating on-premises identities with Azure AD, Azure AD Connect. This tool is a way to get up and running with on-premises AD synchronization with Azure AD quickly. The tool will download and install pre-reqs like .Net Framework, Azure AD PowerShell Modules and Online Services Sign-in Assistant;…
A few weeks ago I used Microsoft Live Writer to create and post a blog article. When I posted it to Catapult’s blog it worked. When I posted it to my personal blog it failed. I won’t discuss Catapult’s setup but my personal blog is WordPress running on Azure websites with ClearDB’s free MySQL database. …
I came across an excellent blog article on disk performance testing: http://www.brentozar.com/archive/2008/09/finding-your-san-bottlenecks-with-sqlio/ It walked through using SQLIO to test disk performance. Basically, you just modify the param.txt file like this: D:\testfile.dat 2 0x0 20480 (Where 20480 is a 20gigabyte file that will get created on the D:\ drive) Then you can do a quick 10…
Recently my work notebook crashed. I had to reload it from scratch. After I reloaded it I didn’t have any problems connecting to my home and other wireless networks. When I could connect my notebook to my Windows Phone hotspot my notebook would blucscreen in 5-30 seconds. I encountered this same problem last year and…
I am trying to keep up with the Office 365 for Business Roadmap, and one thing I noticed today is that the End User Access to the Exchange Online Protection (EOP) Quarantine is now active. This now allows end users to go directly to their quarantine and check for messages that could have been caught.…