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The Problem: A Colorado-based property management company was utilizing an on-premise Exchange 2010 deployment with Exchange UM integrated with their Asterisk PBX. With 2000 employees nationwide and a sizable remote workforce, the client found it was no longer efficient for their business to keep everything on-premise. They desired a solution that would allow them to…
The latest Exchange 2010 Management Pack has been working well at various locations that I have implemented it. The quarantine issue seems to have gone away with this MP, and it appears this MP is a stable release. Here’s the steps I took to import the Management Pack. NOTE: Post import, you will want to…
Recently, a colleague mentioned a client of his whose users have all been trained to store their contact’s phone numbers with a plus sign (+) and country code preceding the number. This is a problem in Enterprise Voice deployments, because any number dialed with the plus (+) sign in front is assumed to already be…
The latest OpsMgr 2012 MP was released for SharePoint 2010. This MP consists of the Administration Task that you run in order to kick off Discoveries and Monitor your SharePoint 2010 environment with OpsMgr 2012. Note: This MP will not upgrade the revision to any task currently imported If you installed the previous Administration Task…
I’ll be speaking this weekend at SharePoint Saturday in San Antonio, TX. If you are or would like to be in the area and haven’t registered yet, it seems there are still available spots. Find out more. My talk will be 10 Easy Tips to Help You Master PowerShell for SharePoint, similar to what I…
It is pretty easy to configure SSL on your IIS website with a valid certificate. We have SSL installed and configured on one of our web servers, and we prefer our employees to access these websites over a secure protocol (HTTPS). However, we do not have the luxury of globally enforcing SSL on all sites…
SharePoint has a very rich object model. Each object has an extensive set of properties (data) and methods (actions) which gives you a lot of flexibility. A farm has multiple web applications, each web application has multiple site collections, each site collection has multiple sites and each site has multiple lists. There are many other…
This week’s trivia… Have you ever had Excel translate a date into a seemingly random number? Maybe you enter 4/30/10 and Excel transformed it (against your will, I might add) into 40298. How the heck did it come up with that number? Curiosity strikes you so you enter 5/1, 5/2 and so on…until a pattern…
The Alert Update Connector was released at the end of last week. With this connector, you can modify alert fields with additional information. This will help to help control alert flow going to incident management systems. Download the OpsMgr 2012 Alert Update Connector Here: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34783 Feature Summary: •Specify custom field values, owner, and ticket id for alerts generated…
The latest MP from Dell has OpsMgr 2012 Support. This is a quick post about the Installation. The Dell MP allows you to Discover, Monitor and precisely illustrate the health of Dell Servers, Dell Remote Access Controllers (DRAC) and Chassis Management Controllers (CMC). These Management Packs offer specially created views that you can use to…
