The Microsoft iSCSI initiator can be tricky to configure because there are so many options. More and more people are going to start using it because Windows Server 2012 now includes a built-in iSCSI target. Coupled together with the new Storage Spaces feature and you can build a low cost iSCSI SAN suitable for test…
When attempting to install Windows Server 2008 R2 on an IBM HS23 Blade, there is an error message about the disk being offline. “Windows cannot be installed on the selected disk because the disk is "offline." This error can be ignored and you can proceed with the installation. This is a known issue on IBM’s…
When a backup job using snapshot technology (like DPM) runs against Server 2012 Hyper-V, NTFS might briefly report free volume size to be 0 for a brief period. If VMMS queries free volume size and find that there is none it will pause VMs. So if VMMS is unlucky and does the query at the…
Ok now that we’ve had a little more time to digest the conference, here are a few non-SharePoint-specific thoughts from the conference. Twitter is still the preferred social network of the SharePoint Community For an entire week we heard all about Yammer and its successes as an enterprise community builder and social networking tool. However,…
I recently realized that one year ago today I started writing for the OpsMgr 2012 Unleashed book! The good news is that a lot can happen in one year (such as the creation of a 1200 page book on OpsMgr). In that year, we’ve had three authors and more than a half a dozen contributors…
Some organizations have a mobile device policy where they only permit company-owned phones to connect to their email server. They want to prevent employee-owned or rogue devices from establishing an active-sync connection. Exchange 2010 and Office 365 provide the ability to quarantine phones that attempt to enroll in an active-sync relationship. This permits an administrator…
After an unsuccessful attempt to deploy Lync Server 2010 internally, an Arizona-based charitable organization searched Microsoft PinPoint for a trusted partner that could help, referring them to Catapult Systems. The Catapult team came in and redeployed their Lync implementation from scratch, installing Enterprise Voice for all 500 users. With every feature of Lync now at…
This blog post was resurrected from cache from my original T2R2 blog (cameronfuller.spaces.live.com) as it still has value but is no longer available on the Internet outside of searching through older cache sites.] When trying to tune OpsMgr 2007 in several environments the most common alert found was “Script or Executable Failed to run”. This…
[This blog post was resurrected from cache from my original T2R2 blog (cameronfuller.spaces.live.com) as it still has value but is no longer available on the Internet outside of searching through older cache sites. The images have been lost unfortunately but the text was still available online.] For starters, unless you will be creating a…
The next meeting of the Office 365 International User Group meeting will be December 19th. Click the link below to add this to your calendar. The initial plan is to have a recap of the SharePoint and BUILD conferences as they relate to Office 365. Please join us for this meeting and pass this along…
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