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Lync 2010 and 2013: Why RMS protected documents cannot be viewed in Lync Sharing session
What – RMS protected documents cannot be viewed in Lync Sharing? Correct, and this is by design per Microsoft: This is from the TechNet Article posted below: “ You’ll notice some changes in the way IRM documents are handled by Lync in this release. Let’s talk about what we mean by IRM documents first.…
OpsMgr: Why did my SharePoint 2010 Task for 2007 or 2012 not work correctly?
This is a frequent question, “I ran the SharePoint task why did it fail? There could be a number of reasons why, but usually they are narrowed down after a few questions. After importing or downloading\installing the SharePoint MP make sure you copy the SharePointMP.Config file from the “%ProgramFiles(x86)%\System Center Management Packs” folder to the…
Powerdelivery 2.0.6 adds pretty 2012 summary page, delivery module API, and build asset cmdlets
I’ve just pushed out another update to powerdelivery. You can get it on chocolatey (‘cup powerdelivery’ if it was already installed ‘cinst powerdelivery if not’). Pretty Build Summary on TFS 2012 Behold the new summary page when you run your builds in TFS 2012: The output you see above is included by default without any…
Powerdelivery 2.0 released on chocolatey
There’s never been a better time to get started looking at continuous delivery with PowerShell and TFS than today. Over the weekend I redesigned powerdelivery to have a cleaner syntax, and allow for quicker installation using chocolatey (a system-wide package manager for Windows based on nuget). This topic describes the redesign as well as how…
Unattend XML Error During Windows 7 Deployment OSD Using Configuration Manager 2012
I recently received this error in my OSD task sequence while attempting to deploy Windows 7 Enterprise via System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1. The Windows image would deploy and install on my virtual or physical machine but would not apply the settings of the unattend.xml leaving a non-customized installation of Windows 7. Windows could…
OpsMgr 2012 SP1: Cannot Install OpsMgr due to OperationsManagerDW database files in a non default location for User Databases – Error Code: 0x80131500
I ran into this issue where the RMSe Installation would fail at the Data warehouse configuration during Operations Manager Setup. Issue: The install fails at the DW installation….and a warning is seen for the Management Server Install, then subsequent red X Critical Failures below. OS versions = Server 2012 STD SQL version = SQL 2012…
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Retrieve Send-As Permissions
To determine who has send-as permissions on a mailbox but isn’t the owner of that mailbox you can use this command: Get-Mailbox -Identity "ltemple" | Get-ADPermission | where { ($_.ExtendedRights -like "*Send-As*") -and -not ($_.User -like "NT AUTHORITY\SELF") } | select Identity, User, ExtendedRights, IsInherited | FT -Wrap
OpsMgr 2012 SP1: Reporting Installation Error: Unable to connect to the Data Access Service for this Management Server
Situation: When running the Operations Manager Installation for Reporting, an error is seen below at the Specify a Management Server page. Operating System = Server 2012 Operations Manager = OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Error: Specify a Management server Enter the name, of a Management server to be used by the Web console and reporting features only.…
OpsMgr 2012 SP1 and Server 2012: Memory Consumption in MonitoringHost.exe and WMI Handle Leak in WmiPrvSE.exe
I noticed these links in a recent OpsMgr Newsletter that Cameron Fuller had shared and wanted to share a few correlations I made with Kevin Holmans findings as well as WMI Handle Leak in Performance Data. It appears that Kevin Holman suggests installing UR1 immediately after installing SP1 as there are some noted fixes in…