Overview The out-of-the-box MVC URL is not very readable to the end user. It usually looks like http://{domain}/{controller}/{action}/{id}, where the {id} is an integer matching the object in the database. Appending a ‘slug’ to the {id} is a quick, low-impact fix that greatly increases readability. The term slug comes from newspaper editing referring…
The July meeting of the Office 365 International User Group has been scheduled for July 22nd. Use the below link to add the meeting and Lync information to your calendar. I, along with the others, will be giving a recap of the Microsoft World Partner Conference. We will also have Mimecast give a presentation on…
Unfortunately I was unable to join/facilitate the June Office 365 International User Group Meeting. But it did go on without a problem! Martina Groom and Jethro Seghers handled the meeting and did an outstanding job. Jethro, who now works for BitTitan, gave an overview of the new and improved features of the Migration tool MigrationWiz.…
Are you interested in learning more about System Center and looking for some good upcoming conferences? There are some great ones coming up, check out the following lineup for events over just the next six months! September 15-19, 2014: IT/Dev Connections (http://www.devconnections.com/) September 17-19, 2014: System Center Universe Europe (http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch/) October 28-31, 2014: TechEd Europe…
For those of you that missed the webinar, you can click here to view the Azure vs. Amazon webinar recording. For those of you who attended and asked questions, here is part 1 of a 5 part series to answer those questions. Q: Do Azure allow migrating servers back and forth between private and public…
The magnifier application works well as a replacement for ZoomIt especially on platforms which do not support ZoomIt (such as my Surface 2 RT). I’m not sure how I missed this until now but it looks like it was added as a Windows key shortcut in Windows 7. The magnifier is activated by using the…
Welcome to Part 5 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell (and now Excel!). In the next part of this blog series we will investigate how to use PowerShell and Excel together to provide an important piece of information when integrating Operations Manager into a third party ticketing…
Welcome to Part 4 on how to do crazy stuff for Operations Manager using SQL, XML and PowerShell. In Part 1 we covered places where Operations Manager could store data and used unique search stings to see what that data is stored either in the XML, registry, or in the databases.In Part 2 we covered…
Tomorrow, July 1st, is the date when I will find out if I have been re-awarded as an Office 365 MVP. Waiting in the Denver Airport I composed the below little poem: ‘Twas the night before MVP Renewal, when all through the Cloud Not an MVP was sleep, waiting to unveil the shroud The Blogs…
Are you interested in seeing how entities (objects) are configured in Operations Manager and how the hierarchy works? If so then check this utility out: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/SCSM-Entity-Explorer-68b86bd2 A description of the utility provided by the author is: "SCSM Entity Explorer is a tool for System Center Service Manager (SCSM) administrators to help them browse and get…
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