Contoso Labs-Network Purchasing (Vendor)
Contoso Labs Series - Table of ContentsNow that our storage is straightened out, it's time to set our sights on network gear. As was mentioned earlier, this entire project is operating as an...
View ArticleLync 2013 and OneDrive for Business are not installed when installing Office...
After installing Office 2013 with Service Pack 1 from the Volume Licensing Service Center (VLSC) with a customized MSP file using the Office Customization Tool (OCT), Lync and OneDrive for Business are...
View ArticleDo you still have legacy Address Lists and Email Address Policies in your...
Frequently, when I review customer Exchange environments, I see Address Lists and Email Address Policies that have not been upgraded to OPATH (from LDAP) filtering.Here are the steps:Check to see if...
View ArticleAutomation–The New World of Tenant Provisioning with Windows Azure Pack (Part...
Hello Readers!Yes, it’s only been a couple minutes since Charles published parts 1 to 4 for this series, and maybe you thought we would rest a bit and take a breath before publishing new content… Well,...
View ArticleWindows XP: April 8th - Almost Here!
For the past couple of years, Microsoft has been advising customers of the planned end of extended support date for Windows XP. We’ve even been using a countdown clock on the Windows XP page...
View ArticleDon’t fly blind, measure your apps from the inside
If you have an app in the Windows Store and the Windows Phone store, you see customer ratings and reviews as well as a store dashboard that provides information like adoption rates, download history,...
View ArticleCrater Lake … in New Zealand?
A quick glance at today’s Bing home page and someone from the Northwest might think they’re looking at Oregon’s Crater Lake. But this is a volcanic caldera down under: New Zealand’s Mt. Ruapehu.It’s...
View ArticleFirst US Music Tech Fest finds musicians and computer scientists in harmony
At the first U.S.-based Music Tech Fest, people who share interests in music and technology are getting together at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center in Cambridge, Mass. From...
View ArticleApp-V 5: On Roaming Exclusions
When you use App-V with roaming profiles or a service or product that may roam integration settings of virtual applications, it was historically assumed by App-V that once a package’s extension points...
View ArticleRevisiting SBS 2011 Standard Migrations
We have been experiencing some good amount of volume around SBS 2011 Standard migrations recently. If you are stuck on one of such migration issues please start by following these outstanding...
View ArticleTip of the Day: Hotfixes
Today’s Tip…Want a quick way to get hotfix information? Use the Windows PowerShell is to use the Get-Hotfix cmdlet.Command : Get-hotfix or the abbreviated ‘hotfix’To check any specific hotfix if it is...
View ArticleChat with Gary Shapiro, Award Winning Global Top Innovating Thought Leader,...
Gary Shapiro is president and CEO of the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA)®, the U.S. trade association representing more than 2,000 consumer electronics companies, and owning and producing the...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Leslie Lamport Wins the ACM Turing Award akin to the Nobel Prize...
Extracted from this news release, the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) named Leslie Lamport, a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, as the recipient of the 2013 ACM A.M. Turing Award...
View ArticlePowerTip: Convert Output to Use Specific Delimiter
Summary: Use Windows PowerShell to convert output to a specific delimiter. How can I use Windows PowerShell to select process name and paged system memory, plus separate the output with a colon? Use...
View ArticleConfiguring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Some content in this section was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS engineering team.This blog post applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2.For instructions using WSUS 3.x...
View ArticleConfiguring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Some content in this section was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS engineering team. This blog post applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. For instructions using WSUS...
View ArticleConfiguring WSUS 6.x for Network Load Balancing (NLB)
Some content in this section was written by Marta Barillas, a SDET on the WSUS engineering team. This blog post applies to Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2. For instructions using WSUS...
View ArticleMild-mannered reporter, or Superman?
This week I had a bit of a respite from Office 365 migrations, but it was time to put together a necessary report for the upcoming migrations. Will people think you have super-powers if you can produce...
View ArticleWebinar: Deliver Higher Quality Software with Automated Coded UI Testing Mar 27
Deliver Higher Quality Software with Automated Coded UI TestingMar 27
View ArticleConsiderations for multiple WSUS instances sharing a content database when...
When you use System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to manage updates, SCCM causes clients not to use WSUS servers directly for all operations (such as reporting). In this configuration, it is...
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