Greg Ramsey has been a roll lately with blog posts. He’s published another really great read over on his blog. "I’m a bit of a fan of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), but today’s post is a bit of a ‘buyer beware’. I’ll sum it up, and then provide some detail and give you some ideas…
You know how sometimes during a break-up, someone might say "It’s not you, it’s me" when in reality, it’s actually them? Well the same goes for SharePoint environments as well. Sometimes it looks like SharePoint is broken, and while that may be true, there are also a host of other factors that can cause…
We love technology and we love helping people. It’s in our DNA. That’s a very short description of our Managed Services team here at Catapult Systems. We help businesses and people every day and it’s why we enjoy coming to work. So, in that spirit, I thought it might be a good idea to share…
Have you checked out the new Microsoft Office 365 TechCenter? It is the premier place to visit to learn about and help with all things Office 365! Highly recommend you check it out and familiarize yourself with what is available to help admins and end users alike.
An OpsMgr administrator I have worked with for a while reached out to me with this question today: “Our web console looks to be working fine but not all performance counters that show in in the local console show up in the web console. Is this a known issue or is there something specific I…
This is the most common cause of SQL outages and crashes. The SQL transaction logs multiply until they completely fill up the hard disk, causing the databases to go offline and disrupting service to any application depending upon SQL including mission critical applications like SharePoint, Lync, Project Server, etc. This is preventable by doing one…
So I received a pretty good response to the idea about a virtual Office 365 User Group. I am actually looking to get things off the ground in the next couple of weeks. I am working with an Office 365 MVP in Australia, Loryan Strant, @thecloudmouth and http://thecloudmouth.com/ recommend you follow via twitter and read…
Fellow MVP Greg Ramsey has put up a really great post on injecting drivers from USB during a Task Sequence. Read the full post here. ConfigMgr OSD does a great job of injecting drivers ‘on the fly’ into your OS Deployment process. For example, you can create task sequence steps with conditional statements to apply…
In preparation for the upcoming OpsMgr 2012 Unleashed agents chapter it was time to get back into Unix to test out the updated cross platform monitoring in OpsMgr 2012. As discussed in previous blog posts, I use SCVMM 2012 (currently the RC version) to manage my Hyper-V servers. For my environment I needed to have…
I recently ran into a situation where I needed to have two RDS farms that I could access from one RD Web Access site. This was not a problem, because both farms are using the same connection broker. However, if you enabled the “show remote desktop connection” for each farm, then you are left…
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