Operations Manager and Azure better together: Introducing the Azure Monitoring Gateway [#SYSCTR, #SCOM, #Azure]
One of the areas of technology that I find most interesting is when two different technologies combine to provide a…
How to change an Azure VM RDP public port number
Tonight I decided to connect to my Microsoft Windows Azure environment from a hotel to test a few things. When…
Microsoft Tech Companion App
Today Microsoft announced the launch of the Tech Companion App. This app will allow the user to keep up to…
The SCU Jedi finalists videos are available now!
This is so cool! I got a chance to watch each of the three SCU Jedi finalist videos today and…
SharePoint 2013 and “In-List” Filters/Searches
Most list types in SharePoint 2013 natively provide the ability to find content within the current list. As an…
Activating Yammer Enterprise in Office 365
My Tenant finally received the Yammer Enterprise update! Here are the steps to activate Yammer Enterprise in Office 365. …
An IT Geek’s comparison: The new iPad versus a Surface 2 RT [#Surface2, #iPad]
I had the interesting opportunity to work recently for a week on both my iPad and a Surface 2 RT.…
Configuring Windows Azure Active Directory for 3rd Party Single Sign-On
You can add 3rd party applications like Yammer, Twitter, Skype, etc to be enabled for Single Sign-On using WAAD integrated…
How to Manage Azure with On-Premise Active Directory
When you sign up with a Windows Azure account, by default it creates an instance of Active Directory that resides…
Undocumented ConfigMgr 2012 command line option
I recently upgraded a client’s ConfigMgr 2012 environment from RTM to SP1. During the upgrade it’s recommended that you make…