Recently I was trying to locate guidance for the minimum requirements that an Exchange Hybrid Server would need if the only purpose for the server was to manage on-premise remote mailboxes. An on-premise Hybrid Exchange Server is still beneficial to manage the proxy alias attribute since Directory Synchronization is mostly one direction and therefore…
Everyone has heard of Spyware and Malware. Ransomware is becoming an all too familiar term but I feel many IT Organizations assume it is a threat isolated to consumers and not Enterprises. In my opinion, I think most IT Organizations are uneducated about the attack vectors that Ransomware can use to infect an IT Infrastructure.…
I recently discover a great tool for testing subscriptions and workflow notification in System Center Service Manager. The tool is called Papercut, and can be downloaded from papercut.codeplex.com. Papercut is a simplified SMTP server designed to only receive messages with a GUI on top of it allowing you to see the message it receives. What…
If you want to learn technologies which are strategic to the Microsoft direction I recommend three: PowerShell, SMA and WAP. To quote Pete Zerger from a couple of years back during SCU "Learn PowerShell". Pete’s statement was simple, straight to the point and absolutely correct. WAP is the Windows Azure Pack for Windows Server which…
I’ve been an iPad user for a while now and also working with my Surface 2 RT (see https://www.catapultsystems.com/cfuller/archive/2014/04/09/using-the-surface-2-rt-like-a-pro-fessional-1.aspx for details). One of the major reasons I favored the Surface was the ability to use Word, PowerPoint and Excel on the device. With the recent release of Office for the iPad it was time to…
Consider this SQL SELECT statement: SELECT [TS].* FROM [dbo].[TimeSheet] [TS] WHERE ([TS].[EntryDate] = @ActivityStartDate) Seems pretty straight forward, but you run into some issues when comparing dates with timestamps. If @ActivityStartDate is passed into the query as 6/1/2014 12:00 AM, because a specific time was never specified, but the timesheet entries contain timestamps, then you run into some…
In a recent environment where we were configuring Advisor within Operations Manager we received errors that the "Microsoft account requires JavaScript to sign in. This web browser either does not support JavaScript, or scripts are being blocked." To debug this, we verified that a similar error also occurred when browsing to the Advisor site (https://www.systemcenteradvisor.com/)…
If you want to bulk create mail contacts in O365, the following powershell cmdlet will pull in a list of users from a CSV and create mail contacts from it: Import-Csv .\MailContacts.csv|%{New-MailContact -Name $_.Name -DisplayName $_.Name -ExternalEmailAddress $_.ExternalEmailAddress -FirstName $_.FirstName -LastName $_.LastName} Example of the CSV: ExternalEmailAddress,Name,FirstName,LastName Bob.Smith@Office365.com,Bob Smith,Bob,Smith
Bootstrap v3.0.3 and higher has changed its icon glyph from an image to a font, which has several benefits, including the fact that they appear smoother, and can be adjusted easily in size and color the way you would adjust a font. You can download Bootstrap here: http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/#download For example, I can display KPIs…
When using the Restart System activity in Orchestrator, the activity exits once the restart command has been sent to the remote system. When using this activity alone, there is no way to know if the system rebooted successfully. However, using a few other activities and some looping, you can make the runbook wait while…
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