Is Your Drag & Drop not Working? If you’ve been developing in Azure you should be used to running Visual Studio as an administrator. This is required when working with the Azure Compute & Storage emulators in IIS (as of Windows Azure SDK 2.1 you can bypass this by using Emulator Express although it comes with its…
I recently upgraded to Microsoft CRM 2013. Now every time I launch the application, I am presented with the dreaded "Pending email warning" dialog: You have email messages more than 24 hours old that haven’t been sent. To send these messages, sign in to Microsoft Dynamics CRM Online for Outlook, or verify with your system…
Did you know that Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Premium SQL Data Tools provides functionality that allows you to compare the schema and data of two SQL Server databases? Well, I didn’t either. It’s simple. Here’s how: Go to the SQL Server Object Explorer and add your database SQL Servers, by right clicking on SQL…
Tonight I decided to connect to my Microsoft Windows Azure environment from a hotel to test a few things. When I tried to connect via RDP I was unable to successfully connect. I signed into my Azure account. I chose my VM. I clicked connect. I chose to open the RDP file. I clicked connect…
Today Microsoft announced the launch of the Tech Companion App. This app will allow the user to keep up to date on the latest news on products, features events and other Microsoft information from their phone, PC or tablet. The app allows the user to customize feeds, bookmarks and streaming news. Using a Microsoft ID…
Most list types in SharePoint 2013 natively provide the ability to find content within the current list. As an example, I’ve created a custom list called “Countries” and you can see the search box here that allows me to filter or search for a specific country from within the list. This is handy and…
My Tenant finally received the Yammer Enterprise update! Here are the steps to activate Yammer Enterprise in Office 365. From the Portal main page click on the link under Included Services Click on the link to confirm activation of Yammer Enterprise Select the domain you would like to have Yammer Enterprise Activated on, it…
You can add 3rd party applications like Yammer, Twitter, Skype, etc to be enabled for Single Sign-On using WAAD integrated through your on-premises Active Directory. Users can access these applications through the new Azure Access Panel. Windows Azure AD supports two different modes for signing onto 3rd party applications: Federation using standard protocols Password-based single…
When you sign up with a Windows Azure account, by default it creates an instance of Active Directory that resides in Windows Azure only called Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD). This is the same exact infrastructure that underlies Office 365. This blog post describes how to change Azure to leverage your existing Office 365 WAAD…
I recently upgraded a client’s ConfigMgr 2012 environment from RTM to SP1. During the upgrade it’s recommended that you make a copy of the ConfigMgr database and restore it using a different name then test the upgrade using the /testdbupgrade command line with setup. We moved the database to not only another instance but another…
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