Azure Virtual Machines Dev/Test Billing
Overview As of June 2013 Microsoft made a competitive and attractive move by not charging owners of a subscription for…
Upgrading from Microsoft Windows Server 2012 to Microsoft Server 2012 R2
In my home lab I have three servers running Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Datacenter. Each server has the Hyper-V…
AT&T MPLS will connect to Azure in 2014
This MPLS integration option eliminates the single point of failure that exists with Azure’s site-to-site VPN (aka Azure Virtual Network).…
DirSync Error Resolution Part 2 – Duplicate Values
The most common type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with duplicate values.…
CCMSETUP, /MP and SMSMP
There’s always a lot of confusion on exactly how to use CCMSETUP and the various switches and properties for it…
Going to System Center Universe DACH! #SCUDACH #SCU2014
Today’s the day! Travel has been coordinated, presentations have been prepared, demo’s have been configured (ok, mostly configured) and departure…
SharePoint 2013 – Unable to Authenticate into Fully Qualified Domain from Host Server (Disable Loop Back Check)
I was setting up my SharePoint 2013 development environment on Windows Server 2012. I upgraded two sites from SharePoint 2010…
DirSync Error Resolution Part 1 – Example Environment
While leading a migration to Office 365 at a large national client I had to resolve hundreds of directory synchronization…
Change AD Account UPN to Match Primary SMTP Address for Office 365 Migration
I change the User Principal Name on the accounts I migrate to Office 365 to match the primary SMTP…
System Center Central ReSearch This contest winners announced!
System Center Central ran a contest for the best submissions for the ReSearch This feature and we had a lot…