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HP Recently released a set of ProLiant and Bladesystem Management Packs for System Center Operations Manager with OpsMgr 2012 Support. I just wanted to give a quick overview of the support model and give a few useful links. Overview: HP Insight Control for Microsoft System Center aids in the management of HP Hardware including…
I’ve seen this as an issue now a few times now in my lab and production environments as well as on the forums. In brief, this specific issue is an access denied (hresult of 0x80070005) when downloading the application content and is clearly denoted in either smsts.log (if the application install is during a task…
Yesterday we had another great Office 365 International User Group Meeting. The primary presentation was by Robert Crane titled "SharePoint to the Cloud" Robert gave a very good overview of SharePoint, SharePoint Online Licensing and talked us through the changes and improvements coming in SharePoint 2013. I then took over presenting and went over how…
In an Exchange 2003 and Office 365 Hybrid Deployment environment, the Office 365 users are able to view the Free/Busy information of Exchange 2003 users or resources. However, the Exchange 2003 user may not be able to view the Free/Busy information of the Office 365 users or resources unexpectedly. Many configuration issues may cause this…
It has been a pretty busy time for Office 365, and I am not even talking about the Customer Preview of the next major update of the service which includes the 2013 products. Wanted to take a few minutes to highlight a few of the new and improved features for the current version of Office…
With the latest update to WSUS (described in KB2720211) also came an update to the WUA, version 7.6.7600.256; however, this updated WUA is not available for separate download and can only be installed directly via WSUS as described in KB949104. This is somewhat disconcerting for a handful of reasons including the following: There is no…
Today Microsoft and the http://community.office365.com site hosted an Office 365 Expert Discussion Series: Troubleshooting Issues with Sending and Receiving Email in Office 365. This was a great session that discussed the Do It Yourself (DIY) troubleshooting tool for Office 365, and other resources available to assist Office 365/Exchange Online administrators with identifying and correcting any…
On August 28th at 8:00pm GMT/UTC we will be holding the Office 365 International User Group Meeting. Below is a link to download the calendar invite for the meeting with the Lync Meeting information for joining. The Agenda for the August meeting is: 8:00pm Welcome, open discussion 8:15pm To the Cloud with SharePoint Overview 9:00pm Filtering for…
Why are 32-bit application installers special and why do they need special handling? First, a caveat: If you don’t have any 64-bit OSes in your environment (or never will), then there is nothing special about them. I think I can safely say that no one using ConfigMgr 2012 falls into this category though. On…
Microsoft has released CU6 for Lync Server 2010. The best way to update your Lync server is to use the Lync Server Update Installer (LyncServerUpdateInstaller.exe). For more details on this rollup: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2493736 List of server roles and the updates that apply to them Lync Server 2010 – Standard Edition Server Lync Server 2010 – Enterprise…