I had a need recently to restore a production SCCM backup into a lab environment in order to perform some tests. I built a domain and site system servers using…
Mary Branscombe of techradar.com recently wrote a terrific article outlining the new approach that Windows Server’s next edition is taking for the lessons being learned by the Azure team. Below…
Email is one of the few technologies invented which seems to have stuck with us, and consumes a large part of our work day despite many startup attempts to “fix”…
IT complexity has been increasing. The rapid adoption of cloud computing, big data and mobile device proliferation are making it harder for organizations to get their hands around IT, especially…
The Office 365 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) team has been hard at work on new features that reflect Microsoft’s continued commitment to provide advanced security, reliability and protection of your…
If you are using a wildcard SSL certificate for your Exchange services, you may run into some issues when setting up Outlook Anywhere clients. This stems from how the msstd…
David Allen recently published a revised edition of his blockbuster productivity manifest, Getting Things Done. Over the past fourteen years since the publication of the original edition, the GTD methodology…
A nice new feature of Outlook 2010 / 2013 when scheduling a meeting is the Room Finder. As you add more conference rooms, you will need to add them to…
Prior to installing Lync enterprise wide, you may have built out a test Lync environment using the 180 evaluation version offered by Microsoft. The good news is, you can build…
One of the biggest challenges to face IT managers and administrators this year is end of support for Windows Server 2003. Although most users have migrated to Server 2008 R2…