Active Directory Migration Toolkit (latest version is v3.2) is a free tool that allows both Inter-Forest and Intra-Forest user, group and computer migration. Installation ADMT Version 3.2 must be performed on a Windows 2008 R2 server (Member server highly recommended). It only requires SQL Express to be installed as a prerequisite. An Inter-Forest migration…
This week we had a very good Office 365 International User Group meeting. Rene Modery (@Modery) and Matthew Hughes (@Mattmoo2) gave a recap of the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2012 in Las Vegas. Rene kicked things of talking about how SharePoint 2013 was built with the Cloud in mind. He also covered a bunch of information…
I leverage PowerShell to do a lot of repetitive tasks. On of the most common for me is creating Site Collections. It is easiest to do this by referencing the Internal of the Web Template. So I made the below list of all the web templates. SharePoint 2010 Web Templates List
In my previous blog post, I described the various preset scenarios and how to determine which ones contain our favorite “SIP Stack” provider =) Now the next step is to turn it on and then analyze the output. The Lync Masters blog has created a nice batch script to automate the process. http://masteringlync.com/2012/08/02/centralized-logging-in-lync-2013/ For example,…
Troubleshooting Lync 2013 is now more efficient because the new Central Logging Service will remotely enable tracing on all servers based on 24 preset scenarios. With Lync 2010, I would enable my favorite “SIP Stack” and S4 tracing but those were not always the most efficient at capturing the most relevant information (for example, conferencing…
During a recent round of debugging with Exchange 2010 discovery, we had identified a regular expression which was used in one of the discovery scripts and where trying to see if the value provided to the script did or did not match the regular expression. This was the regular expression which was defined in the…
Special thanks to @iOnline247 and @sympmarc for the advice and tools that made this possible. I’m in a bit of a sticky situation: I’m building a solution that involves document sets in SharePoint 2010 and Nintex workflows, but the users I’m building this solution for have zero SharePoint training. As a result, they are not…
With Microsoft technology, Federation has become an overused phrase, taking on multiple meanings depending on the product: Identity Federation (ADFS) Federated Sharing (Exchange Calendars Free/Busy) Instant Message Federation (Lync Online) One technical writer for Microsoft attempted to catalog the various uses of the term and I found it humorous that he failed to mention Lync…
It’s been almost a year since I discovered LeapFrogBI, and thought it was about time to share this tool with my SSIS Developer brothers and sisters. For the projects I work on that involve end to end data mart creation and population, my deFacto tool for driving agile and rapid development is LeapFrog BI. We…
There is no longer a Standard Edition SKU. If you are running Enterprise edition today, this doesn’t impact you. If you are running Standard edition, this results in a 400% price increase. For more information see: http://www.msdigest.net/2012/11/lync-2013-license-changes/ How many licenses do I need to buy? A license must be assigned for each instance of the…
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