Rollup 1 for Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Service Pack 3 Released
Microsoft released rollup 1 for Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Service Pack 3 today. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2827350
Windows 8 Shut Down/Sleep/Reboot Procedure Shortcut
I love Windows 8. There are many improvements. But, one of the things I am not a big fan of is the procedure for shutting down, rebooting, or putting the computer to sleep. The menu is too buried. So, I started trying different things to make these procedures easier. Using a custom toolbar is what…
Session hints for MMS 2013 (#SYSCTR, #MMS2013)
You have just got to love those last few days of complete and utter scramble preparing for sessions at MMS. This has been a really crazy round of preparing but I have high hopes that it will be worth it for the level of sessions that I want to be able to present this year.…
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Exporting SMTP Addresses
To get a list of SMTP addresses and export to CSV: Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited |Select-Object DisplayName,PrimarySmtpAddress, @{Name=“EmailAddresses”;Expression={$_.EmailAddresses |Where-Object {$_.PrefixString -ceq “smtp”} | ForEach-Object {$_.SmtpAddress}}} | Export-CSV "C:\Temp\List-SMTP-Address.csv"
Cloud and Datacenter Management Roundtable at MMS 2013! (#MMS2013, #SYSCTR)
I received notice that the “Cloud and Datacenter Management Roundtable” Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) session was accepted at MMS! Thank you to everyone who voted this session up! This BOF session is for System Center SME’s, the Cloud and Datacenter MVP’s and product team to roundtable discuss all items in the Cloud and Datacenter management space (basically…
Office 365 April International User Group Meeting Scheduled
The April meeting of the Office 365 International User Group is scheduled for Tuesday April 23rd at 1pm Mountain time/7pm GMT/UTC. This is a milestone event, as this will be on the 1 year anniversary of the first IUG meeting! I will look to have some special for this meeting! See below for a link to…
Beware of Malware…no really
So, as part of my journey to update my HTC Titan to Windows Phone 7.8 I downloaded the Seven-Eighter app. IT required another toolkit to be installed that pushed firmware to your phone. One of the two was in a RAR format and I didn’t have a RAR extractor on my laptop…so I DLed one…and…
Office 365 Reporting Tool, What Would You Like to See
There are a growing number of 3rd party tools available for administering and reporting on Office 365. I am really curious what the core pain points and needs are out there around a tool focused on Office 365. Many of the tools out there are utilizing PowerShell to gather data and report on it as well…
Weekly Exchange PowerShell Tip: Working with Message Tracking
The message tracking tool is very helpful however if you need to work with the data it provides the default interface can be difficult. To get around this you can dump the results to a CSV with these scripts: Dump Message Tracking Results to CSV: get-messagetrackinglog -MessageSubject "Test Message to Verify Tracking…
Updating My Titan to Windows Phone 7.8 (Update at end)
I have loved my HTC Titan ever since I got it in November of 2011. I love the 4.7" screen which is easy on my eyes (growing old is for the birds). Switching from an iPhone 3Gs, Windows Phone 7.5 was a wonderful breath of fresh air. Yes, there are some things that I miss…