As a simple starting point to demonstrate some of the new JEE monitoring functionality in Operations Manager a colleague of mine at Microsoft recommended that I start with the simplest pieces and then go to more complicated examples. The first item to test is Tomcat and to simplify the lab experience I installed it…
John Joyner just provided the steps that he used to recover the lab environment which we use for System Center Operations Manager 2012. Details are available at: http://opsmgrunleashed.wordpress.com/2012/03/25/disaster-recovery-in-system-center-2012-operations-manager/
We’ve all typed in the wrong URL, right? Or maybe used an old URL bookmark that wasn’t valid anymore? I suppose this type of issue could be labeled "user error" but I’ve never liked that phrase and that really doesn’t describe the problem accurately anyway. How did the issue present itself? à "Internet Explorer…
If there’s one SharePoint environment or farm, there are usually several. Why? As part of the SDLC (Software Development Life-Cycle), configuration and code changes are deployed to and tested in non-Production environments before they are pushed to Production. This is a great process and can ensure that Production changes are effective, produce the desired results,…
Our Denver office is killing it with these Office 365 wins! Maybe it has something to do with our Office 365 Technical Evangelist, Sean McNeill, being based there… (you can check out his blog here: https://www.catapultsystems.com/smcneill/) Catapult Systems will be performing a Jumpstart for a local engineering firm to inform their Office 365 migration strategy.…
I am not one of those people who is a naturally born public speaker. My friends, who have known me for a while (the decade+ club), would attest to this statement. My earliest memory of public speaking was a debate class in high school. In this particular debate the only point I won was that…
Microsoft announced that they updated the Exchange Server Deployment Assistant to include support the Hybrid Deployment Wizard in Exchange 2010 SP2. You can read more about the update here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/21/exchange-server-deployment-assistant-update-for-exchange-2010-sp2-and-office-365-hybrid-deployments.aspx I found something new while walking through the Deployment Assistant, Tenant Monitoring. In the Deployment Assistant this is described as: "Exchange Online monitors the health…
Catapult Systems has just been engaged to migrate one of our Denver clients to Microsoft Office 365 Exchange Online. The client currently has Exchange 2010 on-premises and uses the Unified Messaging (UM) role for storing voicemails from their Asterisk IP-PBX based telephony system. When the project is complete, 2000 users will have been migrated to…
The Application Compatibility Toolkit Connector (ACT Connector) assists administrators with collecting the necessary computer and application compatibility information to help plan for a Windows deployment. In order to install the ACT Connector, a prerequisite is The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 (ACT 5.5), now replaced by a newer version, ACT 5.6. I have seen…
While working on kinlighten, a side business I am starting up that runs on ruby on rails, I used a popular open source ruby framework for generating objects to use in tests. There are many frameworks available for rails that are popular including factory_girl, machinist, and fabrication. These frameworks assist with the creation of objects…
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