I have been on the road for basically the last 10 weeks and this week is my last week of heavy travel. I have been just swamped with the travel and trying to keep up with my normal job duties as well so unfortunately an October meeting is not going to happen. I have scheduled…
San Antonio Express-News Names Catapult Systems Top Workplace in San Antonio By Vicki Vaughan, San Antonio Express-News SAN ANTONIO, TX – October 16, 2013 – Catapult Systems, a Microsoft-focused consulting company, rated No. 1 in the Top Workplace ranking of small companies in a survey sponsored by the San Antonio Express-News. The firm also won a special…
I’ve blogged about the *unfun* of the Windows Update Agent (WUA) before, answered many forums posts on the subject, and presented information on it at multiple venues including MMS and IT/Dev Connections. Until recently, I didn’t have a good solution though. The simple diagram in this post sums up the dilemma. Basically, the WUA is…
Issue: Cannot resolve the collation conflict between “SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS” and “Latin1_General_CI_AS” I received the following error when I was attempting to compare columns in a SQL query between two tables located in two separate databases. In this case, the collation settings between the two databases were configured differently. Rather make any changes to the databases,…
On many occasions, I am asked to run a quick ad-hoc query and dump the results into an Excel spreadsheet. This is typically a piece of cake except in those cases when I am asked to include a long description field. In some cases, the long description field might contain new line characters. This wreaks…
The next type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with invalid User Principal Names. Using some of the error messages sent in the Directory Synchronization error report email, I will examine why these errors occurred and how we fixed them. Blank User Principal Name ASPNET@contoso.onmicrosoft.com Unable to update…
Overview As of June 2013 Microsoft made a competitive and attractive move by not charging owners of a subscription for VMs that are in a stopped state. This is a huge step forward and really puts organizations in a difficult position when trying to find that staying with an on-premises implementation of their Dev/Test environment…
In my home lab I have three servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter. Each server has the Hyper-V role installed and I have have guest virtual machines. I’ve been traveling a lot but today I made some time to begin upgrading the hosts and guests to Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 after reading…
This MPLS integration option eliminates the single point of failure that exists with Azure’s site-to-site VPN (aka Azure Virtual Network). The press release says this will happen in the first half of 2014. If the other big MPLS carriers follow, then this will allow many customers to begin moving substantial internal workloads into Azure. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/windowsazure/archive/2013/09/18/more-options-to-integrate-on-premises-networks-and-windows-azure-with-at-amp-t.aspx…
The most common type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with duplicate values. Using some of the error messages sent in the Directory Synchronization error report email, I will examine why these errors occurred and how we fixed them. Duplicate Proxy Addresses ehernandez@contosoeast.com Unable to update this object…
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