When you need to send large files, email is often the most restrictive transport. By default on-premise Exchange 2010 limits emails to just 10 megabytes, and Office 365 offers 35 megabytes per email message. While you can increase your on-premise email server size limit, you cannot increase the size limit in Office 365 beyond…
This week I’m working on an Active Directory Assessment project. One of my client’s concerns is that they have a couple of shared user accounts that they would like to disable to increase accountability within the IT team. However, the accounts have been around a long time, and they aren’t sure what services might…
Recently I decided to upgrade VMM in my lab from SP1 beta to SP1. I decided to see what would happen if I didn’t uninstall the SP1 beta agents on the hosts. I ran into some issues and errors that I talked about in an older blog. I updated that blog due to my findings…
Being in Information Technology I have a lot of friends and family ask me for my opinion in regards to their personal computers and home networks. Heck, I even get phone calls from family asking me to install a wireless printer, setup a new computer, or remove pop-ups! I wanted to discuss what I personally…
I recently ran into a problem installing Service Manager SP1. In my lab a while back I successfully created two Hyper-V/VMM VMs each using the default 40GB disk. I then installed SQL 2012 on both of them installing all of the SQL features and options. I installed the SM SP1 Beta Service Manager Management Server…
UPDATE 1/31/2013I strongly suggest that you uninstall the SC 2012 VMM SP1 Beta DHCP and agents on the VMM hosts before upgrading to SP1 from SP1 Beta. In my lab there were too much inconstancies with VMM reporting older agents, not reporting older agents, the error below, and…
Today I’m upgrading the rest of my System Center products in my lab to SP1. I have some VMs that were RTM and some that are Beta SP1. When upgrading Orchestrator I received an error message saying “Setup detected that all Orchestrator features are already installed on this computer” The reason why I got that…
Today I decided to upgrade ConfigMgr 2012 to SP1 in my lab but I ran into a problem. My ConfigMgr server was running on Windows Server 2008 R2 Evaluation. During the upgrade my server shutdown because it was past the expiration date. Since I didn’t have anything of value in ConfigMgr I thought it would…
I ran into a strange error message when installing DPM 2012 connecting to a remote SQL server. The remote SQL server is Microsoft SQL 2008 SP2 with a DPM instance. The error was produced during the prerequisites check. The text of the error is: The installation of Reporting Services is not correctly configured or no…
Both Microsoft Exchange on-premise and the hosted version of Office 365 provide a calendar publishing feature that makes it easy to share your calendar free/busy information with your friends and family. For end-users, it takes less than 5 minutes to have this working and only takes a few mouse clicks. 1. Logon to Outlook Web…
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