I believe that part of the job of MVP’s is to be the advocate for the community in terms of what the community wants to see in Microsoft products. We do this regularly through our various networks and working closely with the Microsoft product teams. For background, this is a quick summary of what’s public…
In my home network, one of my phones became locked with a passcode that nobody could remember (I will not list the name of my 2nd level technical support individual who caused this to protect the innocent). I dug around on the web and it looked like the only option I had available was to…
I installed OpsMgr 2012 today for the first time in my home private cloud lab. I will say that the installation is much easier than OpsMgr 2007 R2. Here are the details of the server build. Prerequisites · Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 fully updated with Windows security updates · All available v3.x.x .NET Framework…
While doing some research, I came across a Microsoft white paper that includes an appendix that details the features available in SharePoint 2010 Server and SharePoint Online. You can view the tables to see the differences and determine which version is right for your organization. The white paper, titled Microsoft SharePoint Online for Enterprises, can…
February 9, 2012; it was a great day for the Microsoft Cloud community and users! Cloud Fest Denver was today and it was a great event! The crew that put on this event was outstanding; I was really impressed with the number of attendees at the conference today. It really showed that Cloud computing has…
If you choose to install the OpsMgr 2012 RC Web Console on a stand-alone, non-management server (MS), and you don’t want to get prompted for credentials when logging in, the easiest fix is to use SSL. But what if you’ve already configured the Web Console to not use SSL but decide later to use…
Last night I was working in my lab and discovered a new feature in VMM 2012 RC. When a VM reaches 81% during the build process, you can now connect to the console and watch the VM being built. Simply right click on the VM> Connect or View > Connect via Console This is a…
I’m currently study for exam 70-515 TS: Accessing Data with Microsoft .NET Framework 4 and I have come across some really helpful features that Entity Framework provides. One feature that I can see myself constantly using is conditional table mappings. We always like to keep a history of inactive records by setting a flag in…
Here is a handy VBScript to remotely find the physical host server of a VM. ‘Prompts for VM name returns error if blankVMName = InputBox("Please Enter the VM Name","Enter VM Name"If VMName = "" Thencall MsgBox("No name was given",vbOKOnly,"Error")WScript.QuitElsestrVM = VMNameEnd If Technorati Tags: Hyper-V,VBScript ‘executes powershell to check for host valuepscommand = "…
Adobe® AIR® is a cross-platform runtime environment that provides the ability to deliver Rich Internet Applications to Windows, Mac OS, Linux, and most mobile platforms. Below I have detailed how to sequence an Air application for Microsoft App-V. In this example I have used the application GMDesk. However, you can substitute in pretty much any…
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