I’ve released a version of the Visual Studio extension for using powerdelivery on Chocolatey. This extension allows you to connect to Team Foundation Servers, see which builds are present in each of your environments (Dev, Test, Production etc.), open the appropriate scripts and config files for developing the pipeline, and kickoff builds. To install it,…
This post is inspired by a question submitted on my previous post: Content Distribution: The Myth. The question was about how ConfigMgr determines if files are different when deciding whether or not to replicate them to distribution points. Specifically, the requestor wanted to know whether a simple name change to a file would cause ConfigMgr…
As most of you know Office 365 and its services are updated on a monthly and quarterly release cycle. With last month’s SharePoint and Exchange conference Microsoft has continued to tell the world that new features and functionality will come to Office 365 first and then, after some time, come to the on-premises versions on…
Texas Monthly Awards Catapult Systems for its Continued Excellence and Satisfaction in the Workplace AUSTIN, Texas, April 8, 2014 — Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, announced today it has been ranked as the eighth best medium-sized company to work for in the State of Texas by Texas Monthly magazine. Catapult Systems was presented with the…
On March 4th, 2014, Microsoft announced the availability of integrating on-premise File Classification Infrastructure (FCI) file server with the Azure Rights Management service using the Azure RMS Connector. http://blogs.technet.com/b/rms/archive/2014/03/04/windows-server-fci-file-classification-now-supports-azure-rms.aspx “FCI refers to the File Classification Infrastructure, a capability in Windows Server-based File Servers using the File Server Resource Manager feature which enables the server to…
A quick post to dispel a common ConfigMgr myth about content distribution. The functionality in question is what happens when you change the source location of a package (or any content since they’re all technically packages on the back-end)? I’ve seen it stated multiple times by multiple folks that ConfigMgr will re-copy all of the…
Most of the below information is cobbled together from a couple of TechNet pages, a blog post or two, presentations I’ve seen over the years, conversations I’ve had with others, forum posts and experience — there’s just no one definitive source with a product as big as ConfigMgr that also relies on another full product…
Enabling Hyper-V between two workgroup servers requires issuing self-signed certificates with makecert.exe and a registry key to bypass the revocation check. The reason why makecert is required is because the certificate Enhanced Key Usage must support both Client and Server authentication, and the default IIS certificate CSR wizard does not include the client EKU.…
I have 787 Bing reward credits and was going to redeem some of them for a $5 Starbucks or $5 Amazon card. Normally a $5 card is about 475 Bing Reward credits but I noticed an option for 100GB of storage on OneDrive for only 100 credits. 100GB of storage on OneDrive retails for $50…
Squared Up enhances IT operations visibility with an innovative web interface for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM). It enables you to go beyond the boundaries imposed by traditional consoles and give everyone fast web access to real-time dashboards, performance data and alerts. – SquaredUp (www.squaredup.com) Many customers have requirements such as 3rd party browser…
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