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Dell Server firmware update via USC (Gen10 and Gen11)
Dell offers a firmware update process at the UEFI level that can perform some updates faster/better than the Windows based updates AND the process will identify ALL needed updates so there is no guessing involved. Downside is that you need to have the system shutdown to process the updates. The following is from a T610 …
Read onI got dem Ol’ Slow Terminal Server (2012) Blues!
l have been fighting with a new RDS (terminal server) install at a big customer for the last few months. They run a line of business app that is written in Visual FoxPro9 and it has some quirks, to say the least. They were running the app on an older Server 2008 terminal server on …
Read onMy Life in the Rift 9/04/2014
Oculus Rift Pre-Order DK2 Back in early July I sold my DK1 to pay for my DK2 pre-order. Now finally nearly 3 months later my Oculus Rift DK2 order has gone from Pending to Processing… NO amount of words can describe how happy this makes me.
Read onO365–Things you can do to help ensure a clean email migration
I migrated one of our SMB clients to O365 over the past week. They were coming from a hosted POP3 environment and had a mixture of users that would be going to O365 E1 plans and some that were “phone only” P1 plans. You would think it would be “easy” to migrate an organization like …
Read onO365–A Bumpkin’s Journey–What is SharePoint? (O365 “Sites”)
We are often asked what SharePoint “is” and that, frankly, is a loaded question. There are a bunch of technologies that make up SharePoint so it isn’t just one “thing”. In terms of how it fits in O365 I think the best explanation is that it is a “handy-dandy toolbag” collaboration tool! = …
Read onO365–Me and SharePoint, A Bumpkin’s Journey
I’ve arrived at being an Office365 MVP without having really dipped my toe very deep into SharePoint (the “Sites” you see in O365). Part of this is due to the fact that our office has 3 brilliant SharePoint MVP’s on staff – Sean, Colin and Keith – so anything Sharepoint-ey is handled by them. Part …
Read onO365–Outlook Web App (OWA) for your phone
I have a Samsung Galaxy S4 and I love it. I upgraded to this from an iPhone 4 (which I also loved but the screen was just too small). The Galaxy is a really nice unit but the email client isn’t as “pretty” or quite as fluid as the one I had on my iPhone …
Read onHow to Check your OneDrive for Business Usage
This is an update to my original post “How to Check Your Skydrive Pro Usage“, as it’s no longer valid. Go to your OneDrive Click on the Site Settings (Cog) icon Select “Site Settings” Under “Site Collection Administration” choose “Storage Metrics” Finally, in the upper right, you’ll see the value of your OneDrive for Business …
Read onDeleting and Recreating a Service Account in SharePoint
I recently had an adventure with a customer related to the need to delete and recreate a service account in SharePoint, retaining the exact name before and after recreation. Of course, we had to do this without being able to remove it from SharePoint cleanly beforehand. Unfortunately, this didn’t go so smoothly, and the main …
Read onO365–Ridiculously simple set-up (Thanks Microsoft & GoDaddy)
Part of the MVP thing is the bag of “goodies” we receive from Microsoft as part of our award. There’s a nice plaque and glass statue thingie as well as the requisite logo’d handout stuff (hoodie, water bottle, that sort of thing). But one of the nicest gifts is a freebie subscription to O365. I …
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