I stumbled upon something today in Microsoft Word 2013 I thought I would share. In previous versions of Word if you wanted to add a row in a table you had to click the row, right click, insert, insert rows above/below. I always thought it was too many mouse clicks and I guess Microsoft did…
When you need to send large files, email is often the most restrictive transport. By default on-premise Exchange 2010 limits emails to just 10 megabytes, and Office 365 offers 35 megabytes per email message. While you can increase your on-premise email server size limit, you cannot increase the size limit in Office 365 beyond 35…
This week I’m working on an Active Directory Assessment project. One of my client’s concerns is that they have a couple of shared user accounts that they would like to disable to increase accountability within the IT team. However, the accounts have been around a long time, and they aren’t sure what services might…
Recently I decided to upgrade VMM in my lab from SP1 beta to SP1. I decided to see what would happen if I didn’t uninstall the SP1 beta agents on the hosts. I ran into some issues and errors that I talked about in an older blog. I updated that blog due to my findings…
Being in Information Technology I have a lot of friends and family ask me for my opinion in regards to their personal computers and home networks. Heck, I even get phone calls from family asking me to install a wireless printer, setup a new computer, or remove pop-ups! I wanted to discuss what I personally…
This is my last post on System Center 2012 and Azure… This is it – I swear! During my investigating into the various integration points between System Center 2012 and Azure I found there there are a lot of areas where these products integrate. I see both of these products as important to Microsoft and…
I recently ran into a problem installing Service Manager SP1. In my lab a while back I successfully created two Hyper-V/VMM VMs each using the default 40GB disk. I then installed SQL 2012 on both of them installing all of the SQL features and options. I installed the SM SP1 Beta Service Manager Management Server…
With the production released version of GSM, there were a couple of big surprises that I saw. 1) The licensing structure was actually a pleasant surprise. Per the article at http://blogs.technet.com/b/momteam/archive/2013/01/14/system-center-global-service-monitor-getting-started.aspx “GSM is provided by Microsoft as a benefit of Software Assurance. If you have a System Center license, you can use GSM at no…
UPDATE 1/31/2013I strongly suggest that you uninstall the SC 2012 VMM SP1 Beta DHCP and agents on the VMM hosts before upgrading to SP1 from SP1 Beta. In my lab there were too much inconstancies with VMM reporting older agents, not reporting older agents, the error below, and…
As a geek I’ve always been fascinated with the concept of disk compression and methods which allow us to store more data on a devices than the device should be able to store. Back in my first training for Windows 95 train-the-trainer, the two things that remain in my memory to this day are the…
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