Sometimes the setup program for System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2012 SP1 just disappears, and I’ve even seen it do this with previous versions. One cause might be if the user account that launches setup.exe has special characters in the name. I like to follow best practice and use two…
I’ll discuss continuously delivering web and mobile applications in a later post, but since I just recently worked on one I’d like to start with guidance for using powerdelivery to deliver a Business Intelligence (BI) solution. This solution might deliver databases, cubes, packages, reports, or SharePoint dashboards like PerformancePoint. I’ll assume at this point you…
The open source powerdelivery project for doing continuous delivery I’ve blogged about does a lot of things in a small package, so it’s natural to want to understand why you would bother to use it even if you like the concepts of continuous delivery but you’ve been using off the shelf Microsoft Team Foundation…
In Lync 2010 and 2013, if you are too popular, when someone adds you to their contact list they will see the following message “Maximum Followers Reached”. This topic is also covered in TechNet. This can be an annoyance in very large companies or people who are too cool for their own good. 🙂…
The US Department of Homeland defense issued a statement on Friday to disable Java. It’s a serious recommendation because many business applications rely on Java. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 [Update 1/13/2013 3:43 PM PST] Oracle has just released Java SE 7u11 – an emergency software update. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html The good news is this problem only impacts the very…
Microsoft is starting to divulge information on how a current Office 365 Tenant that is based on the 2010 Product sets (Wave 14) will be upgraded to the new Office 365 services with the 2013 products (Wave 15). The Office 365 Service Upgrade Center on the Community site is live, http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/office_365_service_updates/office-365-service-upgrade-center-for-enterprise.aspx. This site talks about…
When I begin discussing capabilities of a business intelligence platform with my clients, there are two words I hear from those clients more than any others. The two words I hear most often are “reports” and “data”. It occurred to me sometime back, that if you work for an organization, in a specific industry, and…
Inspired by our IT team’s latest blog post on Windows 8 shortcuts, I thought I would share my new favorite Excel shortcut… Go To! Ever wanted to jump back directly to a cell you were working on, rather than scrolling endlessly and without direction throughout a spreadsheet? Now you can! Simply press F5 and enter…
Having experienced success with their current Lync Server 2010 test environment for internal IM and Presence, a Catapult client decided to decommission this test environment and implement an Enterprise Voice solution to achieve higher functionality, more external capabilities, and integration with other software. Catapult Systems designed a full production roll-out of Lync Enterprise Voice. The…
The new shutdown.exe command in Windows 8 can be referenced via shortcut to save time in shutting down, restarting or putting your laptop to sleep. This is a time saver that I love using. Just double-click on the icon to perform the appropriate action. Contents: Sleep.bat shutdown /h #Notice the /h stands for Hibernate,…
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