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Hyper-V Hell–sort of …
I recently went through a few weeks of never-ending “pain” with a client’s new RDS server install. The RDS server was built as a Generation2 Hyper-V VM on top of Server 2012 R2 using Server 2012 R2 as the O/S. The Hyper-V host itself is a fairly powerful Dell T620 that I originally built out …
Read onO365-“Free” migration vs paid-for migration services
You may have heard that Microsoft has announced “free” migration services for organizations looking to migrate to Office365. This is great news for many organizations but you need to be aware of what the “terms and conditions” are of the offer. For now, Microsoft is limiting the migration services to email only (SharePoint migrations are …
Read onO365–DNS follow-up
I made a presentation to the Victoria Office365 Users Group on July 24th which basically mirrored an earlier post I made here. I won’t rehash the whole presentation as the PowerPoint slide deck is available here. However, I do want to elaborate on a question one of the participants asked during our Q&A. Back in …
Read onSlick new user creation form in Office 365
Slick new user creation form in Office 365 My brain jumped for joy today when I went to create a new users in Office 365 and was treated to a new form. This new one lets you use the auto-generated password or type your own! I have always wanted to input my own password to …
Read onLync getting blocked by Sonicwall Proxy Access
Lync getting blocked by Sonicwall Proxy Access This one is hopefully pretty rare, but I was having issues logging clients into Lync online in their domain environment while outside access worked fine. I would constantly get “the server is temporarily unenviable” error below. This was a new migration so I first looked at all the …
Read onUnable to Activate Site Feature “SharePoint Server Publishing” when PublishingImages Library Already Exists
I’ve run into problems at times when trying to activate the SharePoint site feature “SharePoint Server Publishing”. In the instance below, essentially the problem boiled down to the fact that there was already a “PublishingImages” library. As it turns out, this is simply a library by the name of “Images”. To resolve this, simply rename …
Read onChecking which Delegate Controls are activated on your site
I recently had the need to determine which delegate controls were activated on my site collection. Unfortunately I quickly discovered there was no easy way to do this in the SharePoint GUI. As such, I went searching on the Google machine, and I came across the article below. It has a great, concise overview of …
Read onActive Directory–Where did my GPO templates go????
This is a short post to highlight something I stumbled across the other day. One of our customers has been bought out by a much larger company and the new parent company is in the process of transitioning my customer’s systems into the parent company’s infrastructure. One of the parent company’s sysadmins was working in …
Read onO365–Number 5, Number 5, Number 5 (apologies to The Beatles)
I’ve been getting one of our SMB customers organized with a new Office 365 tenancy and we’ve hit an “understanding” stumbling block that may be of interest to many of you smaller businesses (and larger ones, for that matter) that are mulling over the various O365 subscription plans. The stumbling block, in this case, is …
Read onO365 and DirSync– “Same Sign On” Sync between your AD and O365
O365 rocks but it can frustrate your users if they have to remember one set of credentials for Windows and another set for O365. I mean we all have way too many logins and passwords nowadays so why burden your users with yet another set of creds? Small O365 installs might get away with simply …
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