One of our Denver clients provides correctional agencies with innovative technology solutions to aid in monitoring offenders. Having based many of these solutions on Microsoft SQL Server, the organization has engaged Catapult Systems to help with their migration from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012. Catapult Systems leverages the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) product…
I have been working on getting an International Office 365 user group with several Office 365 MVP’s. After a delay on my part I am happy to announce that I have setup a Mailchimp.com account for the group and a Linkedin.com group. Please go to http://home.office365evangelist.com/Pages/Office365UserGroup.aspx to sign up for the User Group. I will be…
The goal of developing any software should be to provide functionality useful to the majority of its users. While doing business analysis or writing user stories for a feature of a project (especially those that are an attempted re-design of an existing one), it is important (and exciting) to brainstorm, be visionary, and think up…
So I blogged a little while ago about an issue with enabling Online Archive for a Migrated user in Office 365 Hybrid Deployment So I came up with a work around to fix this: Login to Domain Controller (assumes 2008 R2 version) if not you will need to use ADSIEDIT.MSC Open Active Directory Users and…
So you were experimenting, and turned on the feature called "Content Organizer", or maybe you tried it out and decided it wouldn’t work for your environment. But, unbelievably, even if you turn off the feature, you still can’t delete the library. That’s because Microsoft turned a property off for this library (probably with good reason,…
In a previous post I covered importing a VM using PowerShell. In this post I am going to cover what to do if the import fails due to a compatibility issue. In this example I am attempting to import a VM from the export ExportTest. To make things easier to read, I have set…
One of the best features of Hyper-v 3.0 in Windows Server 8, is the addition of over 160 PowerShell Cmdlets. With all of these new Cmdlets you can pretty much preform any task that is available through the management console, via PowerShell. One of the Cmdlets that I was most excited to see was one…
As Operations Manager moves more into management of heterogeneous environments, it’s become more apparent that this is an area of interest in OpsMgr 2012 for a lot of our clients. In a previous blog post I went through the steps required to integrate Tomcat into OpsMgr monitoring, and to integrate Unix/Linux systems in System Center…
For an upcoming demonstration I was tasked with showing how End-User Recovery works in Data Protection Manager 2012. For most of this process I worked from Robert’s article at: http://robertanddpm.blogspot.com/2011/02/eur.html. The following were the steps that I ended up doing to achieve the same task in DPM 2012: 1) The first step was to…
I’ve been going through a large database for a client of mine and finding foreign key and check constraints that are marked “untrusted”. This happens when a relationship between two tables has some rows with foreign key column values that don’t have a match in the related table. When this happens, Microsoft SQL Server can’t…
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