Windows Server 2012 has tons of new and great features built into it. One of my favorites is the ability to move a guest virtual machine from one Hyper-V server to another with no downtime. I’m not talking a cluster here but actually moving an entire guest VM from one physical server’s local disk to…
This may not just be wishful thinking anymore… April 8-12 2013, in Las Vegas! Check it out at http://www.mms-2012.com/!
The updated website has been brought online for SCU 2013 and includes the venue information as shown below. Details? http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com
Problem: A public sector client uses multiple-choice clickers for participation during all presentations and briefings, with attendees picking up clickers before entering the auditorium, and returning them when they leave. This method of distribution left the client without a way to track which attendees had what clickers, leading to accountability issues where several clickers would…
Operations Manager 2012 included a new style of Dashboard view which uses widgets (for details see this article at Windows IT Pro magazine). This new dashboard functionality is extremely impressive and provides a very flexible framework which can be used to add a variety of widgets and to put them into a variety of different…
I decided to take the plunge and install Microsoft Office 2013 preview on my work notebook. Overall it’s very different looking than Microsoft Office 2010 but the improved layout and new features outweigh the new look. One thing I noticed in creating a new calendar entry was Working Elsewhere from the Show As dropdown. Of…
The Problem: A Colorado-based property management company was utilizing an on-premise Exchange 2010 deployment with Exchange UM integrated with their Asterisk PBX. With 2000 employees nationwide and a sizable remote workforce, the client found it was no longer efficient for their business to keep everything on-premise. They desired a solution that would allow them to…
The latest Exchange 2010 Management Pack has been working well at various locations that I have implemented it. The quarantine issue seems to have gone away with this MP, and it appears this MP is a stable release. Here’s the steps I took to import the Management Pack. NOTE: Post import, you will want to…
Yesterday was an unusual day for me for a couple of reasons. The first was that I ended up driving about 400 miles during the day going to and from Austin (I’m not complaining, the drive was my choice). That much time on the road gave me cycles to ponder a lot of things including…
Recently, a colleague mentioned a client of his whose users have all been trained to store their contact’s phone numbers with a plus sign (+) and country code preceding the number. This is a problem in Enterprise Voice deployments, because any number dialed with the plus (+) sign in front is assumed to already be…
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