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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month agoDisable strict name checking with PowerShell
Microsoft doesn’t officially support programmatically changing the Taskbar pins. However, with the PowerShell module PinnedApplications from Jan Egil Ring, you can easily pin and unpin apps to the Taskbar on Windows 7 and Windows 8.x computers.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 1 month ago
ManageEngine Exchange Reporter Plus review
In this part of our Azure Site Recovery (on-premises to Azure) series, I’ll cover configuring the Hyper-V and Virtual Machine Manager Servers as well as configuring the cloud protection.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 2 months ago
EventSentry – Full-spectrum monitoring
In the last part of this series, I’ll cover the IT management features in OneDrive for Business. In particular, I will discuss compliance, backup, single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, Rights Management Service (RMS), mobile apps, and Office Mobile.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 8 months ago
Microsoft Lync Server 2013 Planning Tool
Computerworld has an interesting article about IT job postings in the US in 2013.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 9 months ago
SharePoint Server 2013 wiki site structure and usage are poorly documented. Let’s investigate how we can leverage SharePoint wiki sites for maximum effect.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago
Auto-archive attachments from an Exchange mailbox with PowerShell
Configuring all of your SharePoint servers with SQL Server client aliases improves the security of your network as well as makes it easier to relocate your database server.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 9 years, 11 months ago
Group Policy for Firefox and Chrome
Without proper client cleanup and repair, your SCCM database will be cluttered and less useful. This article covers obsolete client removal and eventual client reinstallation.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago
How to deploy certificates with Group Policy – Part 2: Configuration
Windows 7 and Windows 8 can be booted directly from a virtual hard disk (VHD) file in the absence of a hypervisor such as Hyper-V. In this post we’ll learn how to create a VHD-based instance of Windows 8 that runs on an existing Windows 8 physical computer
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 3 months ago
How to deploy certificates with Group Policy – Part 1: Introduction
In the previous part of this two part series I talked about what certificates were, why they were important, and where they could be utilized as well as some best practices. In this article, I will show you how to set up a basic one tier Certificate Authority using a Windows 2008 R2 Standard server, create user and machine certificates from the templates, deploy them via GPO, and verify them.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 5 months ago
Altiris Symantec Management Platform – Part 3: Computer imaging
Microsoft made incremental changes to security auditing in Windows Server 2012. These enhancements include the ability to audit removable drive usage, to create expression-based audit policies, and to retrieve more detailed and meaningful audit log entries.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 5 months ago
Altiris Symantec Management Platform – Part 2: Patch Management, PCAnywhere, and reporting
Access-Denied Assistance is a new feature in Windows Server 2012 that makes it easier for users to get help for ‘access denied’ errors with shared file resources. On the other side of the equation, administrators are given clear information to resolve such permissions problems.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 5 months ago
Altiris Symantec Management Platform – Part 1: Computer and Software Management
In earlier versions of Windows, Microsoft included a loopback adapter. This was a virtual network interface that essentially you could use for network testing but without having a physical network card. In Windows 8 this device is a little trickier to install. Let me show you how to install the loopback adapter and how I’m using it in Hyper-V.
- Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 7 months ago
How to create a new SQL Server 2012 instance
In the last article, we looked at using WMI to manage services with PowerShell. If you are running PowerShell 3.0 you could also use the new CIM cmdlets. The advantage is that these cmdlets use PowerShell remoting to access WMI information, which makes them much more firewall friendly. Here’s how to handle some common service-related tasks with the CIM cmdlets.
- Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 8 months ago
Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 From SharePoint 2010 – Part 3: Upgrade
The fifth installment in our series about managing Windows Services with PowerShell explains how to leverage WMI and CIM for configuring remote Services.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 8 months ago
Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 From SharePoint 2010 – Part 2: Installation
In the last part of this three part series, we performed a completely fresh install of SharePoint 2013 on a new server and made sure it was up and running. In this part, we’re going to grab our content databases, bring them over to the SQL server our SharePoint 2013 installation is using, and mount them to be used in our installation.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 8 months ago
Upgrade to SharePoint 2013 from SharePoint 2010 – Part 1: New Features
In my last post I blogged about the new SharePoint 2013 features. Today I will show you how to install SharePoint 2013.
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Andrew Jacops wrote a new post 10 years, 9 months ago
Outlook Anywhere for Exchange 2013
Network Interface Card (NIC) teaming in Windows Server 2012 is a technology that enables a system to link two or more NICs for failover or bandwidth aggregation purposes. NIC teaming is known in the industry under at least the following names: NIC bonding, Network adapter teaming, Load Balancing and Failover (LBFO)
