Recently I spent some time installing my first 2012 DC into an existing Active Directory environment. I installed the server, logged in and ran dcpromo. And pretty quickly I felt the sinking feeling that “this is no longer your father’s domain controller installation”. So, how do we install a domain controller on Windows Server 2012?…
My Lync environment at the house has been set up to support an old LG-Nortel IP8540 – Codenamed “Tanjay”. I got this device when OCS was still in beta, but never did anything with it. At the time my company was not interested in the IP phones and all the hoopla to set it up…
In my never ending quest to completely phase out SQL cursors, I am truly discovering some truly awesome features about SQL Server that I have never looked deeply enough before to consider. My requirement: I need to determine the total value for a project based on a set of monthly deliverables. These deliverables each…
I needed to quickly update a User Profile photo using PowerShell and was running the following code snippet for PowerShell as a farm administrator: $mySiteUrl = "http://mysite.mydomain.com"; $mySiteProperty = "PictureUrl"; $userAccount = "contoso\rcerda"; $userPhoto = "http://intranet.mydomain.com/sitecollectionimages/rcerda.jpg"; $mySiteHostSite = Get-SPSite $mySiteUrl $mySiteHostWeb = $mySiteHostSite.OpenWeb() $serviceContext = Get-SPServiceContext $mySiteHostSite $profileManager = new-object Microsoft.Office.Server.UserProfiles.UserProfileManager($serviceContext) $userProfile = $profileManager.GetUserProfile($userAccount)…
This week’s trivia… Microsoft’s infamous paper clip office assistant, known as Clippy or Clippit, made his debut in Excel 97. Poor little guy was officially kicked out ten years later with the release of Office 2007, because everyone thought he was annoying. Photo by Eric Ligman This week’s tip… In my opinion, one of Excel’s…
Installing VMM 2012 in a cluster isn’t difficult or very different from installing it on a standalone server. Basically you get your cluster all setup then install VMM. There are a few new screens that you’ll notice.. VMM knows you’re installing it on a cluster and it asks you if you want to make it…
Being a Microsoft Partner and now an MVP it becomes very hard to discern what I can blog/talk about without violating my NDAs. So when I see something being publically available that I think is very cool and was first presented to me via NDA I get excited to be able to tell everyone. This…
We had a great, make that excellent meeting today! We set a new record for the number of attendees for a single meeting. I really appreciate all the people who attend these meetings as well as the various entities that are working to promote and grow the membership. Speaking of membership, it is free, and…
Well, at least it looks like System Center 2012 UR3 is available for Operations Manager 2012, Data Protection Manager 2012 and Service Manager 2012. Operations Manager 2012: One of my colleagues pointed out that he was seeing what appears to be UR3 for System Center 2012 both on an OpsMgr 2012 server and on a…
The last two weeks have been very busy for me. I headed out to Orlando two weeks ago for the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC) and then last week I was up in Redmond for a Microsoft Partner Team event around Office 365. Tomorrow is the next Office 365 International User Group meeting. Neither of these…
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