Organizations that are interested in taking advantage of the Rights Management features available in volume licensed versions of Microsoft Office have a new deployment option available: Windows Azure AD Rights Management (AADRM). Release Date AADRM is already available through the Office 365 portal for organizations that are already using Online Services such as Exchange Online…
While working with a customer to deploy Windows 2012 Hyper-V, SCVMM 2012 SP1 and Hyper-V clusters I needed a way to check to ensure all of the latest hotfixes were installed on each of the hosts. A quick Bing search led me to the here. Being a firm believer in scripting and PowerShell, it was…
Part of our jobs as consultants is to assess the health of an environment and make recommendations for service improvement. Microsoft has some great tools like the Best Practice Analyzer and the Remote Connectivity Analyzer, but those reports alone are not enough. I want to dig further and document all the settings of each feature…
When last we saw CARL we learned that the saying “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” may actually be true. We accidentally lost CARL in Las Vegas… The last we had last seen him was at the Provisioning session at the Microsoft Management Summit. We have photographic proof of his last sighting below. Based…
I am working on a Data Warehouse project and I am optimizing my OLTP database for data retrieval in order to source my stage OLAP database. As I am adding fields to my tables, instead of figuring out which applications are updating these tables or whether the tables are being updated by entity framework, I…
I am working on a data warehouse project and would like to have a ModifiedDate added to my OLTP tables. I added the date field to the table design with a default set to GETDATE() so that when a row is inserted, the ModifiedDate would automatically be populated. However, I needed a way to handle…
One of the big shifts coming in Operations Manager 2012 R2 is a re-written version of the Operations Manager agent for Linux/Unix. The big change for this agent is to provide a faster and smaller footprint for the agent which will also be better for mobile devices. Information on this change is available at: http://blogs.technet.com/b/windowsserver/archive/2012/06/28/open-management-infrastructure.aspx…
The SystemCenterUniverse has expanded and is now providing a great freely available set of webinars for System Center with presenters from across the System Center Universe. These webinars are being organized into a series of different channels including: The Orchestrator Channel The Operations Manager Channel The Azure IAAS Channel Topics range from how to build…
Between August 19th and Thanksgiving I am scheduled to travel over 27,000 miles on 27 flights! WOW! This travel is primarily focused on work for such things as the Office 365 Road Show Catapult is doing, Office 365 + Your Organization, A Power Combination. I will be speaking in San Diego, Boston, Anchorage, New York…
I have been seeing this warning every time I log into the Microsoft Online Portal for the past couple of weeks: Naturally, I ignored it. I followed Joe’s advice and installed the Microsoft Office 365 Federation Metadata Update Automation Installation Tool to create a scheduled task that automatically notifies Office 365 that the self-signed token…
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