IT Consulting and the commute from hell
It’s a significant challenge to be smiling and optimistic when you are spending several hours a day looking out the…
Lync 2013 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1) Release – February 2013
Microsoft has released the Lync 2013 Cumulative Update 1 (CU1). The naming conventions within “Lync” can be a little confusing. …
iOS 6.1: Excess Exchange activity after accepting an exception to recurring calendar event
I’ve been hearing about a lot of problems in Microsoft Exchange 2010 and above right after Apple rolled out iOS…
Office 365 Bulk Licensing
Recently I was asked to look into migrating some on-premise Exchange 2010 archives to Office 365. In order to do…
QuickTricks: Unix/Linux agent “Failed to find a matching agent kit to install” (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
We ran into this recently when attempting to deploy an OpsMgr 2012 SP1 agent to a SUSE Linux system. “One…
Office Visio Stencils – Office 365, Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013
Apparently, I was enjoying my birthday too much to notice that Microsoft released the New Office Visio Stencils. This…
Issue when installing OpsMgr 2012 SP1 all-in-one (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
To develop a locally available OpsMgr environment on my laptop, I recently installed OpsMgr 2012 SP1 on an all-in-one configuration…
Microsoft Releases Exchange 2007 SP3 RU10 and 2010 SP3
Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 was released a few months ago, but not many people could do much with it,…
Determining what is going on with GSM using OpsMgr event collection and views (#SCOM, #SYSCTR)
The new GSM monitoring functionality in Operations Manager 2012 SP1 is really interesting, but when something goes wrong it’s difficult…
Microsoft Unified Access Gateway (UAG) endpoint components do not work with Windows 8 using Internet Explorer 10
Microsoft is working on a Service Pack 3 for UAG. It’s expected to be out in the first quarter of…