I like to blog about installing a product so in the future I can review the screenshots and prepare the service accounts, IPs, or anything else that is needed for an install. Today I’m going to take screenshots while installing Microsoft System Center 2012 Orchestrator SP1 Beta. SCORCH is going to be installed on a…
Last week was very busy and this week is starting off the same way; my bosses, and I have many, don’t pay me enough! J We, Catapult, won a project to help a company that got a little lost and went from an on-premises Exchange messaging system to Google! I will be able to reveal…
All the new changes in SharePoint 2013 pretty much boil down to two things: Search and the App model If you look at all the marketing material for SharePoint 2013, accessible pretty much everywhere, such as the Microsoft website, you’ll see a lot talking about the SharePoint "pillars:" SHARE, ORGANIZE, DISCOVER, BUILD, MANAGE. Ultimately though,…
For those of us still actually supporting ADO.NET applications, I thought I would jot this one down. J I wanted to convert a DataRow[] to a DataTable. While DataRow[] are nice, unfortunately they do not support all of the nice features of a DataTable, such as filtering and sorting. Since I needed to further evaluate…
I’m putting the finishing touches on a presentation that I’ll be working with Savision on called “The Road to SCOM 2012”. We will be discussing the top 10+ things to consider when moving to Operations Manager 2012. The times for these are listed below: Webinar November 27 11.00 AM CST Webinar November 29 09.00…
Have you ever had the situation where you try to write a new email or reply to one and the font looks like this graphic below? (where the font is so small it’s unreadable?) Or maybe this? (where the font is so large it takes over the whole screen?) This has happened to me a…
Most of the projects I work include certificates in some form or fashion. Often the Certificate Authority is something that someone set up once for a specific purpose and forgot about it. When I ask, they can’t tell me which server is their CA. There are a couple of ways to locate the Certificate…
SharePoint has a nifty feature that integrates with Lync and Exchange to display a person’s presence information, also known as the "skittle". J This feature allows you to see if the user is currently busy, available, offline, etc. It also allows you to quickly email, Instant Message, call someone directly from Lync. Unless the web…
My colleague Larry Rayl has published his version of the Operations Manager 2012 Visio Stencils. If you’ve ever used the Visio Stencils for Operations Manager 2007 R2, then you know how invaluable these are. Larry’s done the work for you and created new shapes to support the change in architecture between 2007 R2 and…
Today at a client site, we (Cameron, Blake and I) started to look all over the web for an RMSe Visio object and didn’t have much luck. So I ended up creating a new RMSe object and in the process, updated the OpsMgr 2007 Visio Stencil to OpsMgr 2012. Removed are the dreaded RMS objects…
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