Weekly IT Newsletter – September 8-12, 2014

Microsoft Exchange:

· Ex2013 CU6 & Ex2007 coexistence issue for EAS – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Protecting against Rogue Administrators – 12-Sep-2014 –

· Using ADPropertiesOnly With Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlet Shows False Positives – 12-Sep-2014

· Awareness – Litigation Hold Or In-Place Hold Folder Deletions Not Preserved in Exchange 2013 OWA – 9-Sep-2014

· Set AdminSessionADSettings ViewEntireForest To True By Default – 8-Sep-2014

· Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 12) – 9-Sep-2014

· You can’t use the domain because it’s not an accepted domain – 8-Sep-201

· Exchange 2013 and got perf issues? – 5-Sep-2014

· Keep your Federation Trust up-to-date – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Exchange 2013 improves USG management through EAC and OWA – 10-Sep-2014

· How to Perform an Extended Message Trace in Office 365 – 10-Sep-2014

Microsoft Lync:

· Lync September 2014 Security Updates – 10-Sep-2014 –

· AudioCodes Mediant Virtual Edition SBC Installation – 15-Sep-2014 –

· An update to Lync 2013 Active Directory Policy Tool – 8-Sep-2014 –

· List Lync Users – automated Excel file – 9-Sep-2014 –

· MS14-055 Broke My Edge Server – 12-Sep-2014 –

· Lync KHI Summarizer – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Lync Room System Cumulative Update (September 2014) – 11-Sep-2014 –

· This Just In: Lync 2013 Client Update for September 2014 – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft Lync and Other Stuff: Lync Phone Edition (LPE) Log Viewer – 10-Sep-2014 –

· MS14-055: Vulnerabilities in Lync could allow denial of service: September 9, 2014 – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Issue Installing SQL Server 2012 Express Instances on Lync Server 2013 – 9-Sep-2014

· CX5100/CX5500 v1.1.1 – 9-Sep-2014

· Top Support Solutions for Microsoft Lync Server 2013 – 8-Sep-2014

· Publishing Lync Topology Firewall Requirements (missing TCP Ports) – 9-Sep-2014

· Lync: Database Mirroring Has Been Disabled by the Administrator – 8-Sep-2014

· Custom Presence in Lync 2013–Where did my Custom Presence States Go After I Upgraded? – 15-Sep-2014

Active Directory:

· Remove Lingering Objects that cause AD Replication error 8606 and friends – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Configure pinned programs on the Windows Taskbar with Group Policy – 12-Sep-2014

· Setting up TPM protected certificates using a Microsoft Certificate Authority – Part 3: Key Attestation – 8-Sep-2014

Office 365:

· Office 365 news round-up – 12-Sep-2014 –

· Multi-factor authentication with Office 365 – 15-Sep-2014 –

· A milestone for Office Delve – 8-Sep-2014 –

· Office Delve debuts to help Office 365 users find information again – 11-Sep-2014

· Office 365 & SharePoint Online – Customize the Suite Bar – 10-Sep-2014

Windows Azure:

· Azure Active Directory Basic is now GA! – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Roles Based Access Control Service powered by Azure AD now in Preview! – 12-Sep-2014 –

· How to create custom images for use in Microsoft Azure – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft Azure PowerShell 0.8.8 is available – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Reverse DNS/PTR Record for Microsoft Azure – 9-Sep-2014

· How to fix 403 errors when managing Azure SQL Database from Visual Studio – 8-Sep-2014

· OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 support in Azure Active Directory has GA’d! – 9-Sep-2014

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2:

· Troubleshooting KMS with Process Monitor (ProcMon) – 8-Sep-2014

Windows 8 & Windows 8.1:

· Leaked Windows 9 screenshots show a work still in progress – 11-Sep-2014 –

· Windows Phone 8.1 Update 2 features purportedly detailed (Updated) – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Windows 9: Storage Sense makes entry level devices much more friendly – 14-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft increases OneDrive file size limit to 10 GB and adds more features – 10-Sep-2014 –

· New video shows Windows 9 Notification Center on the desktop – 13-Sep-2014 –

· Surface Pro 3 receives new firmware update today for WiFi connectivity and more – 9-Sep-2014 –

· – 8-Sep-2014

· Tip o’ the Week #240 – Word Flow on Windows Phone 8.1 – 12-Sep-2014

· A 5 Second Boot Optimization If You’ve Disabled IPv6 on Windows Client and Server by setting DisabledComponents to 0xFFFFFFFF – 15-Sep-2014

Windows Phone:

· Windows Phone phones turning into Windows phones with apparent rebranding – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Spec fight: New iPhone 6 vs. the best new Windows Phones – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Jawbone teases upcoming app and support for Windows Phone – 8-Sep-2014

· American Airlines boarding passes now automatically add to Windows Phone Wallet – 15-Sep-2014

· CNN for Windows Phone update improves breaking news alerts, adds high res image support for iReport – 9-Sep-2041

· Facebook Messenger updated with ability to forward messages and photos – 9-Sep-2014

Microsoft Office:

· Reading email headers using apps for Outlook – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Description of the Office updates: September 9, 2014 – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Join us for Tuesday’s webinar: Onetastic for OneNote – 15-Sep-2014

· Excel Power Map September update – 9-Sep-2014

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Top Support Solutions for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 – 8-Sep-2014 –

· SharePoint Online Retires Tags and Notes – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Check if Site Exists with SharePoint Designer Workflow – 15-Sep-2014

· New Project webcast series starts September 16: creating a workflow using SharePoint Designer – 11-Sep-2014

SQL:

· Azure SQL Database new service tiers now generally available – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Predict What’s Next: Getting Started on Azure Machine Learning – Part 1 – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Predict What’s Next: How to Get Started with Machine Learning Part 2 – 10-Sep-2014

· New VM Images Optimized for Transactional and DW workloads in Azure VM Gallery – 12-Sep-2014

System Center:

· Unifying SCCM and WSUS – Part 2: Baselines and automatic deployment rules – 9-Sep-2014

· SCOM 2012 R2 UR#3 Tip: Application Log & Event ID 1022 – 9-Sep-2014

· SCCM 2012 R2 & SCOM 2012 R2: Alert ‘ConfigMgr Site Role Issue’ – 8-Sep-2014

· SQL MP Challenge: Run As Accounts & – Profiles – 10-Sep-2014

· System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager – Configuration Manager console cannot connect to the Configuration Manager site database (SQL Server) – 11-Sep-2014

KB’s:

· Office 2010 cumulative update for September 2014 – 9-Sep-2014 –

· You cannot route ActiveSync traffic to Exchange 2007 mailboxes after you upgrade to Exchange 2013 CU6 – 8-Sep-2014 –

· Several issues after you install security update 2843638 or 2843639 on an AD FS server – 9-Sep-2014 –

· September 2014 update rollup for Windows RT 8.1, Windows 8.1, and Windows Server 2012 R2 – 10-Sep-2014 –

· Users cannot edit shared calendar items in Exchange Server 2013 – 9-Sep-2014

· Update for Azure Backup for Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent – 10-Sep-2014

· Wi-Fi connection is not established or Wi-Fi direct proximity test fails in Windows 8.1 or Windows Server 2012 R2 – 10-Sep-2014

· Multipath I/O identifies different disks as the same disk in Windows – 9-Sep-2014

· Connection is lost when you access an RD Session Host server by using RDP in Windows Server 2012 – 9-Sep-2014

· The W3wp.exe process has high CPU usage when you run PowerShell commands for Exchange – 9-Sep-2014

· Memory usage of AD FS federation server keeps increasing when many users log on a web application in Windows Server 2012 – 9-Sep-2014

· A meeting reminder is set unexpectedly when you send an email message to an Exchange Server user – 14-Sep-2014

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· Microsoft Message Analyzer 1.1 – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services – 15-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft Azure Hybrid Connection Client – 13-Sep-2014 –

· Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Applications 2013 – 9-Sep-2014

· September 2014 Security Release ISO Image – 9-Sep-2014

Scripts & PowerShell:

· Use PowerShell to Start a Process at Random Times – 15-Sep-2014 –

· How to check if a domain user account has a blank password – 12-Sep-2014 –

· New features introduced in Windows Management Framework 5.0 Preview September 2014 – 12-Sep-2014 –

· Storage Spaces Status Overview (HTML Report) – 9-Sep-2014 –

· Weekend Scripter: The WMI Explorer Tool – 13-Sep-2014

· How to lock the homepage in Internet Explorer – 12-Sep-2014

· How to check if any Windows Server is pending for reboot – 10-Sep-2014

· How to use script to change the Power Plan in Windows – 9-Sep-2014

· Inventory Drive Types by Using PowerShell – 10-Sep-2014