If you want to stop Office 365 passwords from expiring and / or you want to eliminate the password complexity requirements you must use PowerShell as these changes are not permitted through the Office 365 admin pages Download the Office 365 Online Services Module 32bit or 64bit and install it […]
I have written a number simple SharePoint 2013 articles recently and was going to add another on explaining how to change your logo, add columns to a page, set a background graphic… but then I found the following excellent blog from Microsoft and instead of writing a new one, I […]
This was a tough one that required alot of work with Microsoft Partner Support over many WEEKS, but the answer is surprisingly simple. PROBLEM: When I right click and check the Properties on a data deduplicated folder (on Server 2012) the SIZE ON DISK shows some incredibly small numbers compared to the SIZE. […]
Bring up a command prompt, type SET, press your enter key. In my case I needed the variable for the Host Name of the PC that is connecting to a Remote Desktop / Terminal Session. And that answer is %CLIENTNAME%. Below is the output from a Server 2008 R1 box but […]
This was a frustrating error that, if I had slowed down for 2 minutes, would have been easy for me to figure out what was wrong. The issue was that the Exchange Power Shell – Management Shell cmdlets was not in the location Exchange expected sooooo, I had to run the […]
I recently needed to add 50 new contacts into my Exchange 2007 server and had no intention of completing this task by manually. I am not the greatest PowerShell guy but I knew this would be easy… and it was. Create a file named C:\CONTACTS.CSV file like following Name,DisplayName,EmailAddress,Alias,Title,Company,Department Tom […]
This video covers many important features of HyperV version 3 which will be included in Windows Server 2012 as well as Windows 8 desktop, such as: the new VHD format is VHDx and supports upto 16TB multiple VHDx’s can be “pooled” into one virtual disk, up to 64TB in size […]
A Newbies Guide to Getting Exchange 2010 Configured By Ian Matthews, Up & Running Technologies Inc, April 11, 2010 Last Updated April 16, 2010 You should know four things before you start: I am have taken two or three small Exchange 2010 courses and I am pretty good with 2007 […]
These are taken from “77 Windows 7 Tips” http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2009.10.77windows.aspx 6. Shift to and from Explorer and CommandPrompt. The classic Windows power toy Open Command Prompt Here is now an integral part of Windows 7 Explorer. Hold down the shift key then right-click a folder to add this option to the […]
Click the following link for an excellent 10 minute brief on Windows 7 changes http://technet.microsoft.com/en-ca/windows/dd758778.aspx?ITPID=tnflash Also, MS has produced a small (and very incomplete) set of pages explaining some of the enhancements in 7. What’s New in AppLocker What’s New in Biometrics What’s New in Certificates What’s New in Deployment […]