Windows Network Load Balancing (NLB) is a pretty popular (free!) solution for quickly setting up load balancers. You must choose either Unicast or Multicast operational mode. Unicast – Each NLB cluster node replaces its real (hard coded) MAC address with a new one (generated by the NLB software) and each node in the NLB…
At Catapult, we have had customers experience a problem with replication between the Lync FE’s and the Edge services. You can check status by running this command: get-csmanagementreplicationstore We discovered that a MSFT patch issued in December was the culprit. (Root Certificates Optional Windows Update December 2012 – KB931125). Looks like the patch added over…
One of my colleagues, Michael Rinner, recently went through the experience of merging stand alone FOPE with Office 365 FOPE. He gave me permission to post his experience as I think this would be very valuable for the community. “Here is the manual process, this should not be done without FOPE support on the phone…
When an email is deleted, where does it go? It goes to the Deleted Items folder. When the deleted items folder is emptied, where does it go? It goes to a hidden folder called deletions. The duration that deleted items remain in this folder is based on the deleted item retention settings configured for…
If for some reason you need to stop the Service Manager 2012 DW cube processing (hardware or server maintenance reasons perhaps), you can use these steps to stop the cube processing and restart it. Use these following cmdlets: stop-scdwjob -jobname <job name here> disable-scdwjob -jobname <job name here> restart the System center Management service on…
I have seen a few cases where there is poor query performance using the Network Summary Dashboard and decided to investigate because of Errors displayed. A few items to investigate:· BIOS – High performance power setting enabled· OS – High performance power setting selected· Remote Query Timeout Setting· MAX Worker Threads· MAX Degree of Parallelism…
The open source powerdelivery project I’ve been blogging about using to enable continuous delivery automation for your software projects has now been updated to support TFS 2012. Creating new projects using TFS 2012 powerdelivery To add powerdelivery to a TFS 2012 project, just pass the –tfsVersion parameter to the AddPipeline utility specifying 2012. For instance:…
I stumbled upon something today in Microsoft Word 2013 I thought I would share. In previous versions of Word if you wanted to add a row in a table you had to click the row, right click, insert, insert rows above/below. I always thought it was too many mouse clicks and I guess Microsoft did…
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