In this blog I’m going to setup a collection for domain controllers, create a FEP policy, apply that policy to the new collection, and replace FCS with FEP on a domain controller. When you DCPromo a server to a domain controller by default it goes in the domain controllers OU. Based off of that…
See what I’m talking about(below). It’s blank even though it says 4 items found at the top! Well if they’re found then why not show them to me? If I click Edit Policy Precedence on the right I’ll see them in that windows and I can re-order them. What’s going on? After hours of trying…
Sarah is a Software Developer at SM Energy that our Catapult team in Denver has had the pleasure of working with recently. Her post below details how to create and link custom list forms with custom content types in SharePoint 2010. I know a lot of administrators and developers are frequently asked to find ways…
The actions of a flight attendant on a recent flight got me thinking about the importance of employee empowerment in delivering great customer service. This is true of flight attendants, Software Quality Assurance specialists, or any other role. The Incident A woman on my plane received a can of soda. She left it unopened on…
Read the entire post here. As discussed in previous posts, Microsoft’s Desktop Virtualization allows flexibility to deliver, test and manage the user settings, applications and your operating system, Windows 7, more easily. Today I’d like to further explore Application Virtualization, which is a key component to a complete desktop virtualization strategy. More specifically, I’ll review…
Read the entire post here. I was talking with Stephen Rose, the owner of this blog, and he was saying that one of the top pain points that he hears from you frequently is transferring the user profiles when migrating from XP to Win7. In today’s blog post we are going to touch on Microsoft…
A little background…Exchange 2010 management is built completely on top of PowerShell. The Exchange Management Console (EMC) is just a fancy GUI to run powershell commands underneath the covers. While you can get a lot accomplished in the EMC, not all management functions are available in the EMC. What I want to go over in…
Installation You must have Visual Studio 2008 with Service Pack 1 installed OR the latest version of Visual C# Express which is available for download for free here. Note: I am running Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Premium. Download and install the Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 R3, available here. You need a Bluetooth module installed…
A friend sent me an article about tools for testing a data warehouse. The article supports the concept of Embedded Quality. You can read the full article here. My favorite quote is, "In DW, as in every other IT discipline, testing — early and often — is of paramount importance. For a variety of reasons,…
While mapping out a distributed application a dependency upon specific file share on a file server was identified as a critical piece of the design. I was aware of two options for this: 1) Using the community “File System Management Pack” available on System Center Central at: http://www.systemcentercentral.com/PackCatalog/PackCatalogDetails/tabid/145/IndexID/13064/Default.aspx. In this case it was a…
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