Most project teams have tried some permutation of an agile or SCRUM process by now, and a consistent theme amongst those I see on consulting engagements is a failure to deliver the work done in a sprint to users before starting the next one. Continuous integration, standup meetings, and backlogs are usually present, and some…
First off I want to thank the people who attended today’s Inaugural Office 365 International User Group meeting! While we did not have a ton of attendees, the ones that did attend were treated to a great presentation and numerous great discussions around Office 365 (in my humble opinion). I think the meeting went very…
Most software applications leverage a variety of third party libraries, middleware products, and frameworks to work. Each of these tools typically comes with its own method of configuration. How you manage this configuration has an impact on your ability to reduce time wasted tracking down problems related to differences in the environment in which your…
Catapult Systems is assisting one of our Austin clients with the planning, design, deployment, and migration of a subset of users to a hybrid deployment with Single Sign-On for Office 365 Exchange Online. The client has approximately 1,200 mailboxes on Exchange 2007 in a single Active Directory forest with a mixed environment of Outlook 2003/2007/2010/2011.…
I am now officially a Microsoft Certified I.T. Professional (MCITP) for Office 365, Administrator! I took the two Office 365 Beta Exams, Administering and Deploying, back in January. These exams are now available to everyone, http://borntolearn.mslearn.net/btl/b/weblog/archive/2012/04/04/microsoft-office-365-exams-are-here.aspx SkyDrive has been updated! A new desktop app is included with this update that makes sharing files with…
Well it is just about here, Tomorrow at 2pm Denver time (8:00pm GMT/UTC) the first Office 365 International User Group meeting will begin. I have updated my website with the Meeting information and a calendar entry to be downloaded. Looking to get this User Group off the group and to meeting Office 365 enthusiast around…
So your company needs a mobile app. But which platform do you build it on? Android? iOS? Windows Phone? With a Windows Azure subscription, the possibilities are endless. Our mobile division, Mobile Alchemy, is currently developing a mobile application built on the Microsoft cloud platform, Azure, for one of our Dallas clients. This proof-on-concept engagement…
Pete Zerger (Mr. SystemCenterCentral) and Alex Fedotyev (Contributor on the upcoming System Center Operations Manager 2012 Unleashed book and alpha-geek on AVIcode) presented on how to take .NET functionality in OpsMgr to the next level. Key Notes: The .NET monitoring functionality can gather performance, application failure, connectivity or security information from the application. Primary…
So a weird week plus for me with Office 365 Exchange Online pilot projects. The great news is I am either the lead consultant or serving as the project manager for five Office 365 projects right now, demand and interest in Office 365 is very high. Now to the bad news, with two of these…
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