There’ve been a number of good blog posts/articles in the last week or two on the basics of scheduling and project planning. I haven’t had the time to capture each and every one of them, but I thought it was worth collecting some of the best ones in a short list here. If you’re in…
I am back in San Antonio Thursday March 4th speaking at Innotech San Antonio. I’ll be presenting Developing Social Applications with SharePoint 2010. This lecture focuses on the developer interfaces for the Social Computing API and Web services for SharePoint 2010. Social Computing with SharePoint involves creating people aware applications that take advantage of User…
Outlook Web App (Formerly Outlook Web Access) enables the integration of OWA and Instant Messaging, utilizing Office Communications Server (OCS) R2. This requires manual configuration on the Client Access Server and the OCS Front-end. This is documented in Technet here. Step 1: Download and Install the Microsoft Office Communications Server 2007 R2 Web Service Provider…
Here’s a great script I thought about sharing since I find it to be very handy to assist for the following requirement. Create a “all computers” collection for software updates and exclude various OU’s that have computers not allowed to be updated for various reasons. Please modify the RED areas with the correct information.…
So COM is a huge topic that I can’t even imagine scratching the surface of in a single post; MSDN and CodeProject are two great places to learn about COM though. Note also that in many ways, COM has been replaced by .Net so you won’t even see many people using it anymore, but it…
Outlook 2010 against Exchange 2007 was cool enough (read more about that here). But one feature that has me really excited is the new Online Archive. This is a server-side archiving solution built-in to Exchange 2010. It requires an Enterprise Client Access License (CAL) for each mailbox that is enabled for the online archive.…
Pulling license data straight from the new MVLS website. Open Excel (doesn’t matter version) Rename Sheet 1 ‘License Data’ Delete Sheet 2 Delete Sheet 3 Select the ‘License Data’ Worksheet Select Data Ribbon Click the ‘From Web’ icon Go to the https://licensing.microsoft.com/ Sign in with your Windows Live ID Click the ‘View your license…
Advanced Group Policy Management is a tool available in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack that gives IT administrators a management platform for controlling change in Group Policy Objects. You can think of this tool as source control for group policy objects. There is a server component that stores GPO changes and proposed GPO changes in…
I am in the process of updating all of my SharePoint 2010 projects from Beta to RC. I had a lot of fun learning how to use the Bing Maps Silverlight control for a few social computing demos that I built. Version 1 was released late last year and now it’s time to get upgraded!…
In our small environment, we combine the Hub/Transport, Mailbox and UM roles onto a single server. This is the last post in a series focusing on the transition to Exchange 2010 from Exchange 2007. This post will cover the installation of the HT, MB and UM roles. Installing Hub/Transport, Mailbox and UM Roles 1. Install…
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