Most of the projects I work include certificates in some form or fashion. Often the Certificate Authority is something that someone set up once for a specific purpose and forgot about it. When I ask, they can’t tell me which server is their CA. There are a couple of ways to locate the Certificate…
A new FISMA-compliant, federal-only, private infrastructure hosted by Layered Tech is now available. REDMOND, Wash. — Nov. 15, 2012 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) today announced availability of cloud-based Microsoft Dynamics business solutions designed to meet the unique security and functionality requirements of U.S. federal government agencies. Delivered in a Federal Information Security Management Act…
SharePoint has a nifty feature that integrates with Lync and Exchange to display a person’s presence information, also known as the "skittle". J This feature allows you to see if the user is currently busy, available, offline, etc. It also allows you to quickly email, Instant Message, call someone directly from Lync. Unless the web…
My colleague Larry Rayl has published his version of the Operations Manager 2012 Visio Stencils. If you’ve ever used the Visio Stencils for Operations Manager 2007 R2, then you know how invaluable these are. Larry’s done the work for you and created new shapes to support the change in architecture between 2007 R2 and…
Yesterday was a very busy day for me, presented to the entire Catapult Sales and Management team about our new Office 365 Accelerate program, ran to a client meeting, back to the office for another client meeting. Now it is lunch time, am I hungry, yes, do I have time to eat and do what…
A rapidly growing Arizona-based startup provides rental housing for single families across the United States. After performing an internal Active Directory and Exchange cleanup, the client engaged Catapult Systems for an Office 365 implementation with Exchange Online and Lync Online. The client also needed an application to manage workflows and keep centralized records of which…
Yesterday, the 6th, Election Day in the U.S. was the November meeting of the Office 365 International User Group. The meeting started out on somewhat of a bad note, all due to my inability to share my screen via the Lync Meeting. I really need to look into whether it is a driver issue or…
We all know how simple it is to deploy a VMM agent to a server using the VMM console but what actually happens behind the scenes? Hopefully this blog will try to explain that along with enough information to troubleshoot any issues you may be having. In an controlled environment the following items were used…
Want to apologize to you, my faithful readers, for not being able to get back to my Office 365 Build Out Lab blog series. I have been slammed with work, yes the job that actually pays me J, and have not had a chance to get back to my build out. This weekend has been…
A common ask is how much space is needed to store user state data captured by USMT. This is an important question to answer so that you know how space you may potentially need when capturing user data to the network in traditional Replace scenario task sequences. It’s not an easy question to necessarily answer…
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