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.
Recently I had the pleasure of being invited on "Getting Down to Business" with David Weatherford (http://gdtb.biz/). This is a radio program based out of Anchorage, Alaska, but syndicated in Seattle and Spokane, Washington, and focuses on today’s news and current events for business owners in the Pacific North West area. David invited me on…
In most environments where an offline Root CA is used, it must come back online once every 7 months to provide the Subordinate CA’s with an update CRL list. If this does not happen, the Subordinate CA will stop issuing certificates. The actual CA service on the Subordinate will no longer startup and the…
Recently I was trying to locate guidance for the minimum requirements that an Exchange Hybrid Server would need if the only purpose for the server was to manage on-premise remote mailboxes. An on-premise Hybrid Exchange Server is still beneficial to manage the proxy alias attribute since Directory Synchronization is mostly one direction and therefore…
Everyone has heard of Spyware and Malware. Ransomware is becoming an all too familiar term but I feel many IT Organizations assume it is a threat isolated to consumers and not Enterprises. In my opinion, I think most IT Organizations are uneducated about the attack vectors that Ransomware can use to infect an IT Infrastructure.…
Consider this SQL SELECT statement: SELECT [TS].* FROM [dbo].[TimeSheet] [TS] WHERE ([TS].[EntryDate] = @ActivityStartDate) Seems pretty straight forward, but you run into some issues when comparing dates with timestamps. If @ActivityStartDate is passed into the query as 6/1/2014 12:00 AM, because a specific time was never specified, but the timesheet entries contain timestamps, then you run into some…
If you want to bulk create mail contacts in O365, the following powershell cmdlet will pull in a list of users from a CSV and create mail contacts from it: Import-Csv .\MailContacts.csv|%{New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -DisplayName $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName} Example of the CSV: ExternalEmailAddress,Name,FirstName,LastName Bob.Smith@Office365.com,Bob Smith,Bob,Smith
Bootstrap v3.0.3 and higher has changed its icon glyph from an image to a font, which has several benefits, including the fact that they appear smoother, and can be adjusted easily in size and color the way you would adjust a font. You can download Bootstrap here: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#download For example, I can display KPIs…
As you might have read, Office 365 Administration Streamlined and Simplified. I have observed several of these simplified changes over the past few days, but one caught my eye today, while doing a demo for a client. The below changes are related to modifying a User in the Office 365 Admin Center. Selecting a User…
I have scheduled the Office 365 IUG meeting for June 24th! Click on the link below to add the meeting to your calendar. Jethro Seghers will be presenting on BitTitan’s MigrationWiz Migration product. We will also have other valuable info for you to enjoy. As always, if you have something you would like to present…
AppV 4.6 Migrations to AppV 5 – real world experience. Client Issues – Clients need a minimum of AppV 4.6 sp2 – AppV 4.6 is on SP3 HOTFIX X – But it is debatable if SP3 (support for windows 8) and hot fixes are needed Lots of pain automating deployments – I’ve had windows…