The element of surprise isn’t bound to the battlefield, nor is it only something to spring on one’s enemies. Think business and clients. I learned a few years ago, essentially by accident, that pleasantly surprising your clients is a remarkably simple way to set yourself apart from competition in a commoditized market. And unless you…
Data deduplication is one of Windows Server 2012’s many new features. It’s a role that you can enable on volumes to save space. it looks for duplicate data in files on a volume and rather than have the same data in multiple it consolidates it. It does not use compression. It sees duplicate data in…
Austin, TX — August 08, 2012 — Catapult Systems, a Microsoft IT consulting firm, today announced its recognition as a 2012 Microsoft U.S. Public Sector Partner of the Year. The award honors Catapult Systems’ innovative use of Microsoft technology in support of Public Sector Agencies and Organizations. Winners and finalists were nominated and selected by…
The Exchange 2010 MP was just recently pulled from the download site for various reasons including a quarantined mailbox situation noted below: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/06/28/mailboxes-on-a-database-are-quarantined-in-an-environment-with-system-center-operations-manager.aspx The latest MP was just re-released yesterday, but I find that it cannot be updated with the latest changes (changes are not noted in the MP Guide). http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=692 Notes during import: I just…
Just like in The Brady Bunch where it was always, “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!” hard costs seem to get all the press. Hard costs can easily be associated with a break/fix model, while soft costs can impact your business severely, but are rather difficult to calculate. Soft costs include things like the cost of downtime,…
I’ve seen a lot of environments and the one typical commonality is that there simply was no planning or forethought put into where to store everything like source files, packages, downloads, etc. Chaos reigns and it ain’t pretty. For all of my lab builds and production rollouts, I use a simple script to build…
From time to time, I hear of or read about someone troubleshooting what they think may be a Windows Firewall related connectivity issue. To troubleshoot this, they stop the Windows Firewall service (either from services.msc , the command-line, or some other method). What this results in though is a total network lockdown of the system…
Recently I had a need to restore a Deleted User/Mailbox in Office 365 for one of my clients. With the recent Soft Delete being implemented, I figured this should be very easy. Unfortunately it was not, I first tried to just restore the mailbox to a new user as the original problem was related to…
In some cases, I like to use SQL Server Functions to encapsulate some of my SQL Server logic into reusable and maintainable components. Recently, I have found the use of Table-valued Functions to be extremely helpful. With Table-valued functions, you can return multiple values, which is useful enough in itself, or even entire result sets.…
I recently assisted a client of ours with implementing Identity Federation (single SignOn) with ADFS. This client was an original BPOS customer that was transitioned to Office 365. The client originally migrated to BPOS from on-premises Exchange 2003. Once we implemented Identity Federation all of the accounts became Federated users and now making any changes…
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