One of the biggest misconceptions with both customers and even our own internal users about Yammer is that Yammer, in its current form, is supposed to be the end-all/be-all for enterprise social, and we should either accept it or get out of the way. The truth is that if that were the case there honestly…
On Wednesday we had another great meeting of the Office 365 International User Group. Jethro Seghers (@Jseghers) kicked things off with a recap of the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC). He talked about the new announcements related to Office 365 that were made during the conference including Cloud first mantra that Microsoft has been specifying over…
You may have recently noticed that Operations Manager 2012 R2 UR2 has been released. These recently appeared in my lab environment which drew my attention. Microsoft has provided documentation on what is new in System Center 2012 R2 UR2 which is available at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2932881. Specific information for Operations Manager updates in this UR is available…
With the release of Update 1 for Windows Server 2012 R2, Microsoft has added the ability within Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) to use an alternate Login ID for Office 365. This is a huge new benefit for some companies. Up until now the only Login ID that was able to be used was the…
What do more than a dozen MVP’s and System Center specialists focused on Cloud and Datacenter Management and Enterprise Client Management have in common? To get in the know follow #TE14D5.
The upcoming DFWSMUG this Friday, April 25, 2014 in Irving Texas looks like it’s going to be a packed event. A subset of the schedule and the event registration link are below: 9:00-9:30 Breakfast & News Updates 9:30-10:30 Cameron Fuller – What’s Coming Soon in the Operations Manager 3rd Party Extensions Space In this session…
Help! My company has written their own custom management packs and they are sealed but we can’t find the key or the unsealed versions of the management packs we have written! If this is you this blog post may be your BFF very soon. This situation can quickly become extremely challenging to work through as…
During a recent upgrade to SCOM 2012 R2 and UR1 and we started seeing issues with dashboard displaying performance metrics as shown below. The details of the error are below: Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.DataAccess.DataProviderException: An error occurred executing the command: [Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.DataProviders.Library!PerformanceDataProvider/ResolvePerformanceCounterSeries] in provider: [Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.DataProviders.PerformanceDataProvider, Microsoft.EnterpriseManagement.Presentation.DataProviders.Library, Version=7.0.5000.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35].Unable to execute stored procedure needed for dashboard. If you just…
There’s a lot of content and articles out there making fun of people using Facebook, Twitter, etc. incorrectly (what’s up, BuzzFeed, Shares From Your Aunt, and Cracked?) This isn’t going to be one of those articles. Yes, we’re now at the point in society where social networking is kind of a running joke, but at…
To ensure you and your users do not lose access to Lync Online, Microsoft has published a blog post to ensure your network is allow a new Certificate Revocation List (CRL). This is required because of the acquisition of VeriSign by Symantec. Failure allow this CRL can result in the inability for your clients to…
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