Office 365 preview

For a couple of days ago, Microsoft released a new preview of the office 365 family,http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/en/try-more-products This release includes the new versions (2013 release) of SharePoint, Exchange & Lync (Which all of these was released for a few days ago as well) as well as Office 2013 Preview.Office 2013 release includes new versions of (Word, …

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Windows Azure in your own datacenter

Wow, a lot is happening around Microsoft these days. And just recently Microsoft released the Service Management Portal and API for Windows Azure free for download for hosting providers. http://www.microsoft.com/hosting/en/us/services.aspx Quick start guide –> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9813519 Detailed step-by-step –> http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9813518 I have taken a quick walkthrough of the web part. Requirements: Hyper-V Host server for Service …

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Citrix Receiver on Linux (Ubuntu)

Quick post of how-to get Citrix Receiver up and running on a Ubuntu 11.04 the installation is the same for 12.04.First of go to Citrix Receiver download site and choose Linux on the “For desktops”http://www.citrix.com/English/ss/downloads/details.asp?downloadId=2323812&productId=1689163 From here you choose the .deb file. (This is part of the debian software package format ) Choose to open …

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Forefront TMG

Since I wrote previously about Lync 2010 and I stated there that you need Forefront TMG to use as an reverse proxy for Lync components. (You can also use other HLB products such BIG-IP or Netscaler but remember that they don’t have the security capabilities that TMG has, but then again Netscaler and BIG-IP are …

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Orchestrator 2012

What is orchestrator and should I care?Well first of, you should care This product will be a life-saver for many, and it is a crucial part of Microsoft’s private cloud solution. But what is Orchestrator anyway?It is a part of the Microsoft System Center family and the latest release is Orchestrator 2012, for those that …

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System Center Configuration Manager (Trouble with opening the console)

Quick post, after I did some changes using the SDK for ConfigMgr 2012 I had trouble starting the console, It would just crash and report an error message. Faulting application name: Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.exe, version: 5.0.7743.0, time stamp: 0x4fb6dc3dFaulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 6.1.7601.17514, time stamp: 0x4ce7bafaException code: 0xe0434352Fault offset: 0x0000b727Faulting process id: 0x1708Faulting application start time: …

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Exam tips 70-664 70-243 70-246

Wow busy weeks! I have been busting my ass of lately to study for my 3 exams I have had the last weeks. First of I started last monday with 70-664 TS: Microsoft Lync Server 2010, Configuring Then Thursday this week I took: 70-243 Administering and Deploying System Center 2012 Configuration Manager & 70-246 Monitoring and …

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Windows 8 an improvement ?

With the upcoming release of Windows 8, allot of people have stated that this OS is not meant for the enterprise businesses. Some say that it will be a new vista(Even thou I was really satisfied with Vista).And some are  just excited for the new release! Like myself! (NOTE: THIS POST IS BASED ON WINDOWS …

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Windows 8 shortcuts

With the coming of Metro in Windows 8 there are a lot of new keyboard shortcuts the users needs to be aware of, I have some of them here. And so far I Love the metro GUI! I like to have all my options in one screen instead of diving down into Start menu –> …

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