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This from the Office Neeter.   Deleting an Exchange 2007/2010 Mailbox WITHOUT deleting the Active Directory user account   Back in the old days, you could delete an Active Directory user account in the ADUC (Active Directory Users and Computers) console, and you would be prompted whether or not you wanted to delete or keep …

While there are a number of techniques out there to present users with an alternate location to end up after submitting content to a SharePoint list, this one is quick and easy and effective and worthy of spending 10 minutes documenting on a Friday night (brew in hand).   The Business Problem   Upon entering …

This was a post by the office Robert. 🙂   Dell offers remote console connectivity using the SOL function of the BMC. This is a good tool but there is another tool that allows you to connect to the BMC and gather a lot of information as well as give you control over things like …

The Error I was attempting to complete the SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites checker at a customer today but I was having difficulty as the necessary Internet access for the checker wasn’t performing well (the customer has a Proxy server that was getting in the way and causing unexpected Internet connection issues). In the end, I had …

Ran into this the other day… Background Migrating/moving mailboxes from Exchange Server 2003 to a new Exchange Server 2010 Server. Most mailboxes moved but a couple would not complete, with the following error: Warning: Failed to cleanup the source mailbox after the move. Error details: MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to delete mailbox. (hr=0x8004010f, ec=2147221233) Reason While not …

Ok, first off, the title is an oxymoron. This is a downgrade.   Customers end up in this situation because they downloaded a SQL Server Evaluation and Microsoft only provides SQL in the ‘Enterprise Edition’ format.   Second, SQL Server 2008 is the *FIRST* SQL Server version to support this. Reference: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143393.aspx   The Procedure: …

  SharePoint 2010 is starting to appear on MSDN/Technet, etc. And publicly available components are now available for download. Links and info are below:   Microsoft SharePoint Designer 2010 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=d88a1505-849b-4587-b854-a7054ee28d66   Reminder: SharePoint Designer 2010 only connects to SharePoint 2010 sites. You will want to continue to use SharePoint Designer 2007 to connect to your …

This from the Office Louis. 🙂 Windows 7 doesn’t allow you to downgrade” from more advanced versions such as Ultimate to Home Basic etc. If you try to perform an in-place upgrade to downgrade to a lesser version of Windows 7 it warns you that you will need to reinstall to use that version. This …

  itgroove is pleased to announce a new service…   The “We know your business requirements before you do” Solution   itgroove has partnered with Internationally renowned singer and Psychic to the Stars, Dionne Warwick. This has given our team of consultants the “Missing Link” so that on top of: Having to know and support …

This is a very exciting time. SharePoint 2010 and Office 2010 (and Visual Studio, etc.) have all been released to manufacturing. RTM for Office and SharePoint was April 16th, 2010. What this means going forward:   Important Dates April 16, 2010 – SharePoint/Office 2010 RTM (Release to Manufacturing/Media). April 27, 2010 – RTW (Release to …