There’s always a lot of confusion on exactly how to use CCMSETUP and the various switches and properties for it even though it’s fully documented on TechNet. The first thing to note about CCMSETUP is that it is used for all client agent installation activity (except client agent installation from WSUS). Yes, even client push…
I was setting up my SharePoint 2013 development environment on Windows Server 2012. I upgraded two sites from SharePoint 2010 and gave each one a fully qualified DNS. While I was able to authenticate and load the sites just fine from my laptop, when I attempted to browse them directly from the development server, the…
While leading a migration to Office 365 at a large national client I had to resolve hundreds of directory synchronization errors. Almost all of these errors resulted from a few common issues repeated across a complex environment. In this series of posts I will break down the issues as identified in the Directory Synchronization Error…
DALLAS, Texas – September 11, 2013 – Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, announced today that it has been recognized as one of Dallas Business Journal’s Best Places to Work. This will be the third year that Catapult Systems has earned this recognition in Dallas, and earlier this year, was also recognized as one of the top…
I change the User Principal Name on the accounts I migrate to Office 365 to match the primary SMTP address for two main reasons: Office 365 requires that users have a valid, internet routable User Principal Name suffix, such as BlueSun.com instead of BlueSun.local. Email addresses are, by their very nature, internet routable. Changing…
Microsoft over the last couple week has rolled out some new features and increased size limits significantly! First off, from the Office 365 Portal you should now see a new menu item on the left for Tools. Below is a screen shot of the Tools that are now available to you to use. These tools…
It’s been just shy of a year since I made my first commit to github to start the powerdelivery project. For those of you new to my blog, powerdelivery is a free toolkit that extends Microsoft Team Foundation Server enabling your development and IT operations teams to continuously deliver releases of your IT assets (software,…
Yes you read the title correctly, in an effort to drive more attendance I am changing things up a bit for September, instead of one meeting I am scheduling two. The reason for this is to better align the meeting times for the geographic disperse locations. On Monday, September 23rd the below meeting will start…
I promised to do a comparison and pro/con around using ADFS with Single SignOn (SSO) and at the time the newly released Password Sync with the new DirSync tool. Well finally here it is, and with thanks to a fellow co-worker, JC Warner for developing the below table based on research and his experience using…
Today we held the Office 365 International User Group August meeting. We had good attendance despite that fact that yours truly did not have a robust schedule setup. I apologize for this and blame it on my recent travel schedule, I will ensure that the September meeting will have a much more structured schedule and…
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