Enterprise File Shares on Azure https://ift.tt/313hIcb My customer has a large on-premises file share environment based on Windows Server File Shares with petabytes of data. The maintenance and operations of those servers sounds like a simple task – but having this in a large and complex infrastructure can be challenging. If the file shares are […]
Deploy Resources to Azure With Azure Resource Manager (ARM) https://ift.tt/2SOZJSi In this blog post, I will show you how to deploy resources to Azure Resource Manager (ARM) and get into the learning of Infrastructure as a code. In my previous blog post, I explained why you should start using ARM, but in a nutshell, ARM […]
How To Use Hash Tables With PowerShell https://ift.tt/30elnn1 In this blog post, I will show you how to use Hash Tables with PowerShell and explain why they are so useful. About Hash Tables Microsoft PowerShell Hash Tables are dictionaries or arrays that allow us to store data in a structured way using key pair values. […]
“Database is mandatory on UserMailbox” when installing Exchange Server https://ift.tt/2YlMJH2 When introducing a new Exchange Server into your existing Exchange environment, the installer may throw the error “Database is mandatory on UserMailbox” and prevent you from continuing. If you examine the Exchange Setup Logs (which can be found at “C:\ExchangeSetupLogs\ExchangeSetup.txt”) you may find a few […]
Network optimization tips for on-premises Office installs and updates https://ift.tt/2EfiIC6 There are a variety of scenarios including but not limited to, installations of Office using Content Delivery Network (CDN), lean 2nd installs (removing the Office source files from the install packages), right-sized first install (only include most used language packs), and default behavior where Office […]
Microsoft Teams will support standard SIP phones in the first half of 2021 https://ift.tt/3frt1zc Microsoft has just announced in a blog post that “Support for SIP phones will be available in the first half of 2021.”. It looks like any SIP based phone will be supported, the blog mentions “Cisco, Yealink, Polycom, and others”. This […]
Azure AD My Sign-Ins Activity Report Now Generally Available https://ift.tt/39VULe8 Check Your Azure AD Sign-Ins for Problems Microsoft VP Alex Simons exclaimed himself to be excited that “End users can now report “This wasn’t me” for unusual sign-in activity” when he announced the general availability of Azure AD My Sign-Ins, a new page that allows […]
New Microsoft Teams Room features in latest update – Including Webex meeting join https://ift.tt/3f52nw4 Hello Readers, I hope you’re well. Microsoft Teams Rooms has had a bit of an update. Which means it has a few new tricks up its sleeve. The new version is 4.5.35.0 and it is “rolling out” now. What this means […]
Reasons to move to Microsoft 365 from a file server environment https://ift.tt/2DkXTEj There are many who still fail to see the benefits of moving from a traditional on premises, centralised file server to a modern collaboration system like Microsoft 365. Here is a list of what I believe to be the major reasons that what […]
Join a Computer To an Active Directory Domain Using PowerShell https://ift.tt/39aCb1J In this blog post, I will show you how I join a Windows machine (Windows 10 or Server) to an Active Directory domain using a PowerShell script. Script The following script is using an Administrator account to join the domain, and before it joins […]
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