RCP identifies the “biggest” Microsoft partners in terms of their number of competencies in this second-annual list. By Gladys Rama – July 1, 2013 Source: Redmond Channel Partner Microsoft competencies don’t tell the whole story about a partner’s depth of expertise, but they can be a good measurement of dedication. Under the requirements of the…
Yesterday Microsoft announced they have released a Windows 8 Store App and IOS app for SkyDrive Pro. While this is not earth shattering news for Windows 8 Pro users who have had the ability to sync with SkyDrive Pro with the Office 2013 install which includes the SkyDrive Pro desktop app, it is big news…
Today Microsoft released the Windows 8.1 Preview! I went ahead and updated my Surface RT to Windows 8.1, it took about an hour for the upgrade to complete. So far it has been very good, I am writing the blog post from my Surface 8.1 RT Word app and like the new tile sizes, more…
I find that I am consistently trying to determine the first and last day of the current month using Transact SQL. The following is a cheat sheet for calculating easily those dates: DECLARE @today DATETIME, @first_of_month DATETIME, @last_of_month DATETIME SET @today = GETDATE() SET @first_of_month = DATEADD(dd,-(DATEPART(dd, @today)-1),@today) SET @last_of_month = DATEADD(dd, –1, DATEADD(mm,…
Recently I blogged about implementing Two-Factor/Dual Authentication for Windows Azure Active Directory and Office 365. During this blog I highlighted a problem with using a DirSync’d user and the Windows Phone 8 Active Auth App. I spoke to Microsoft about this and they found the problem and I was just notified a fix was put…
It seems no matter how good SCCM becomes there will always be a need to modify the existing hardware inventory gathering. I am not sure if I am NOT using the Reg2mof 2012 version correctly but so far my experience with the 2007 tool has been utter failure. http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/skissinger/archive/2010/12/01/march-cochrane-s-regkeytomof-v2-5.aspx I have used…
I’ve run into multiple issues with this task, so I thought I’d write a post on how to successfully update your Exchange 2010 Edge server to Service Pack 3. In my scenario, I’m running a single server with the following services: Exchange 2010 SP1 Edge server Forefront Threat Management Gateway (TMG) 2010 Forefront Protection for…
Microsoft has released Office for iPhone! All iPhone users can download it, however, only users with an active Office 365 subscription can use it. First Look In the Apple App Store, search for Microsoft Office or Microsoft Office Mobile After downloading and opening the app, the next step is to sign in with your Office…
Microsoft is rolling out two factor authentication for Windows Azure Active Directory (WAAD) called Windows Azure Active Authentication, http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/services/identity/. I wanted to give this a test drive, here is my experience with the new Active Authentication. Setup Microsoft published a TechNet Article about configuring WAAD for Active Authentication, http://technet.microsoft.com/library/dn249466.aspx From the Article: Creating an…
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