As part of further learning how System Center 2012 works with Azure, I spent some time recently working with the Azure Integration Pack and seeing how that works for Orchestrator. This blog posts goes through installing/deploying the IP, Connecting Orchestrator to Azure, Validating that the connection works correctly, and what actions are available in the…
The US Department of Homeland defense issued a statement on Friday to disable Java. It’s a serious recommendation because many business applications rely on Java. http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/625617 [Update 1/13/2013 3:43 PM PST] Oracle has just released Java SE 7u11 – an emergency software update. http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/downloads/index.html The good news is this problem only impacts the very latest…
Birthdays always provide a nice reason to celebrate, especially when the time comes around every so often to enjoy your own. Such was the case for me recently. But the celebration never really kicked off because I forgot to take the day off from work. I guess our marketing team realized the flaw in my…
Microsoft is starting to divulge information on how a current Office 365 Tenant that is based on the 2010 Product sets (Wave 14) will be upgraded to the new Office 365 services with the 2013 products (Wave 15). The Office 365 Service Upgrade Center on the Community site is live, http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/office_365_service_updates/office-365-service-upgrade-center-for-enterprise.aspx. This site talks about…
The vision for System Center Universe was built from an idea to bring the best-of-the-best presenters on System Center and related technologies, and to synchronize the user group communities into a one day world-wide event for System Center. This vision was accomplished with SCU 2012. However, there were challenges… As most folks who attended SCU…
When I begin discussing capabilities of a business intelligence platform with my clients, there are two words I hear from those clients more than any others. The two words I hear most often are “reports” and “data”. It occurred to me sometime back, that if you work for an organization, in a specific industry, and…
Inspired by our IT team’s latest blog post on Windows 8 shortcuts, I thought I would share my new favorite Excel shortcut… Go To! Ever wanted to jump back directly to a cell you were working on, rather than scrolling endlessly and without direction throughout a spreadsheet? Now you can! Simply press F5 and enter…
Having experienced success with their current Lync Server 2010 test environment for internal IM and Presence, a Catapult client decided to decommission this test environment and implement an Enterprise Voice solution to achieve higher functionality, more external capabilities, and integration with other software. Catapult Systems designed a full production roll-out of Lync Enterprise Voice. The…
The new shutdown.exe command in Windows 8 can be referenced via shortcut to save time in shutting down, restarting or putting your laptop to sleep. This is a time saver that I love using. Just double-click on the icon to perform the appropriate action. Contents: Sleep.bat shutdown /h #Notice the /h stands for Hibernate,…
I am in the processing of learning how to use SPMetal to replace those dreaded SPQuery CAML queries. So far, very nice! If you need more information on using SPMetal to add LINQ to SharePoint to your SharePoint development environment, check out my blog entitled Using SPMetal to Generate SharePoint 2013 LINQ Classes. (This is…
Catapult uses cookies to enhance your experience, to display customized content in accordance with your browser settings, and to help us better understand how you use our website. By continuing to browse or closing this banner, you indicate your agreement. To learn more about the cookies we use and to set your own preferences, see our Privacy and Cookie Policy.