Troubleshooting the Client Access Server
Many of us are familiar with troubleshooting the CAS services from outside our network using the Exchange Remote Connectivity…
Embedded Quality – Building on a Solid Foundation
Embedded Quality is a Quality Assurance (QA) technique that I’ve introduced on many projects with great success. Embedded Quality has…
Create a Virtual Application Using the App-V Sequencer
The Application Virtualization (App-V) Sequencer is a powerful, easy-to-use tool that enables IT professionals to create a new virtual application.…
ConfigMgr–Prerequisite Checker-SQL Server Sysadmin Rights Bug
Was working on setting up a new Central Site for a client today and noticed what appears to be a…
Calculating % Work Complete with Budget Cost Resources
A colleague of mine in Dallas threw this question at me recently, which prompted me to drop everything I was…
Taking Distributed Applications to the next level with Savision Live Maps – Part 2
In my previous posts we discussed how to use Savision Live Maps to model distributed applications and we discussed how…
Using Distributed Applications to generate actionable alerting
One of the biggest tools in the Operations Manager tool belt are Distributed Applications (DA’s). DA’s can be used for…
Announcing Microsoft Lync Server 2010
Is Lync Server a new product? Yes and No. Lync Server is the successor to Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007…
Let’s Web 2.0 This Thing
I realized that I’ve been a bit remiss over the last year and only allowed folks to communicate with me…
Springboard Series: Understanding Group Policy Settings in Internet Explorer 8
Nice post over on Springboard. “To start, I wanted to address that Internet Explorer 8 has over 1300 Group Policy…