Catapult, a Quisitive company, is a Microsoft-focused solutions and services firm that specializes in imagining, building and sustaining digital transformation and cloud-based solutions that people love to use. Catapult has consistently been recognized as a leading Microsoft Partner with 10 Advanced Specializations and 17 Microsoft competencies. Recent accolades include 2020 MSUS Partner Award Winner Azure – DevOps, Top Microsoft 365 Security Partner for FY20, and being named a finalist of the Data Analytics 2020 Microsoft Partner of the Year Award. Catapult has offices nationwide.

It Takes Two: Together, Catapult Systems and Slingrock Spark Client’s Excitement for Office 365 SharePoint Online Deployment

  Catapult Systems just finished an Office 365 SharePoint Online deployment for one of our Texas clients. Read on to learn how our team effort with Slingrock pushed this through the sales cycle! With business units in multiple continents, and products being developed across these business units, it became essential for the client to have…

Advanced ADFS Claims Rules for Office 365 SSO

A colleague sent me a blog post from the Directory Services Team title "An ADFS Claims Rules Adventure" This post is very informative and pretty cool. It talks about setting up ADFS Claims rule to tightly control access for Office 365. I have previously looked into how to control access to Office 365 mailbox/SharePoint resources…

Office 365 User Group Meeting Recap

We had a great Office 365 International User Group Meeting today! I would like to thank all the attendees for joining and participating in the meeting. Also big props go out to Office 365 MVP Brett Hill (@bretthill) for giving a demonstration and talking about the Cloud WAN Optimization provided by Riverbed. The demo/presentation was…

Installing Windows Server 2012

This is my first of hopefully many posts involving the latest and greatest server operating system Windows Server 2012. This post will walk you through the installation,(which really hasn’t changed much) and what you will see after the desktop appears for the first time. Download the  Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC) and create a…

Storage Quick Reference

  This is a collection of information about storage concepts such as Hard Drives, Disks, Partitions, Volumes, Snapshots, Shadow Copies.  This is meant to be a quick reference, primarily for Windows Server and Hyper-V, with links to additional information.  This page may be updated periodically so it may change slightly over time.     TERMINOLOGY…