Weekly IT Newsletter – October 20-24, 2014

Microsoft Exchange:

· Come get your Calculator Updates! – 22-Oct-2014 –

· How can I delete Exchange audit logs? – 22-Oct-2014 –

· PowerShell DSC Does Exchange! – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Quickly Get the Data You Need for Troubleshooting Exchange Server 2013 Problems – 24-Oct-2014 –

· Exchange Server 2013 Configuration Management with PowerShell DSC – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Set all virtual directories for Exchange servers – 19-Oct-2014

· DigiScope: eDiscovery and Recovery for Microsoft Exchange – 22-Oct-2014

· The fallacy of the workstation File Share Witness – 23-Oct-0214

· Appointments reappear in OWA calendar as one Chrome bug is fixed – 20-Oct-2014

· SIP485 Ambiguous Error with Exchange UM when using SIP Trunking How to use a main line phone number with extensions to avoid this – 21-Oct-2014

· How to transition your current SMTP service to EOP in 45 minutes or less – 21-Oct-2014

· Planning and Migrating a Small Organization from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2013 (Part 15) – 23-Oct-2014

Microsoft Lync:

· Episode 44: Norwegian Lync Day – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Lync Phone Edition Update – October 2014 – 22-Oct-2014 –

· Lync 2013 Basic with gallery view and recording – 23-Oct-2014 –

· POODLE and Lync Server 2013 – 20-Oct-2014 –

· AudioCodes 400HD Phone Updates for Lync – 23-Oct-2014 –

· POODLE Testing Results for Lync – 22-Oct-2014

· Lync Real Time Monitoring – 23-Oct-2014

· Lync Call Quality Methodology to enhance the Call Quality and User Satisfaction (Part II – Server Health) – 21-Oct-2014

· Lync 2013 Basic Gets New Features: Gallery View and Recording – 24-Oct-2014

· FIXED: Lync Server 2013 pre-requisites fail to install on Windows Server 2012 R2 in Azure – 23-Oct-2014

· The Mediation Server service has received a call that does not support comfort noise – 19-Oct-2014

Active Directory:

· Restore OU-tree from AD Recycle Bin with PowerShell – 19-Oct-2014 –

· Azure Directory Sync – Global Admin and Multifactor Authentication – 23-Oct-2014 –

· What Are the Five FSMO Roles – 21-Oct-2014

· ADSync Cmdlets – Part 1 – 23-Oct-2014

Office 365:

· Azure Automation – Send Mail via Office 365 – 18-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 news round-Up – 24-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 – How to Stay Informed of Changes – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 – Cloud Partner support – 16-Oct-2014 –

· The Garage Series for Office 365: Crash course in PowerShell for managing Office 365 – 22-Oct-0214 –

· Office 365 Training Resources – 22-Oct-2014 –

· Set rules with Office 365 message classification – 21-Oct-2014

· Three ways to manage user accounts in Office 365 – 20-Oct-2014

· Support corner webcast—troubleshoot Mail Flow for hybrid cloud environment – 24-Oct-2014

· Change UPN in O365 with AD Synchronized Users – 22-Oct-2014

· How to report spam that arrives in Office 365 to Microsoft – 24-Oct-2014

Windows Azure:

· Fix: unable to delete an Azure Storage Container due to a lease – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Azure Automation – How to get started – 24-Oct-2014 –

· Fix: Azure Cloud Services Error: No deployments were found. Http Status Code: NotFound – 20-Oct-2014

· Azure Active Directory Synchronization Services: How to Install, Backup & Restore with full SQL – 20-Oct-2014

· End-to-End IaaS Workload Provisioning in the Cloud with Azure Automation and PowerShell DSC (Part 1) – 24-Oct-2014

· RESOLVED: Missing NETLOGON and SYSVOL shares on Azure domain controller – 23-Oct-2014

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2:

· Hardware Load Balancer Health Checks and Web Application Proxy / AD FS 2012 R2 – 17-Oct-2014 –

· List of currently available hotfixes for the File Services technologies in Windows Server 2012 and in Windows Server 2012 R2 – 17-Oct-2014 –

· When Poodle’s Attack – Poodle Checker Tool – 24-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft Issues Advice on SSL 3.0 Security Vulnerability – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft pulls SHA-2 update for Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 – 20-Oct-2014

· Paths to Success with Web Application Proxy – 11-Oct-2014

· How does write back cache improve performance? – 22-Oct-2014

· Mitigating the POODLE SSL 3 Vulnerability on Forefront TMG 2010 – 21-Oct-2014

· Best Practices for Windows Server 2003 End-of-Support Migration Part 5 – 23-Oct-2014

Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10:

· Windows 10 File Explorer changes – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Windows 10: New animations for opening windows in build 986x – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Using Windows Update to install new builds of Windows 10 Technical Preview – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Windows 10 Technical Preview update 9860 available to download now, adds Action Center – 21-Oct-2014 –

· New in Windows Server 10 Hyper-V – 22-Oct-2014 –

· How to disable the new window animations in Windows 10 Technical Preview – 24-Oct-2014

· Nextgen Reader for Windows 8.1 adds OneNote support in latest update – 23-Oct-2014

· Windows 10: A closer look at the new Battery Saver feature – 21-Oct-2014

· Windows 10: A closer look at Data Sense – 21-Oct-2014

· Windows 10 Hyper-V Error 0x80070780 – File Cannot Be Accessed By The System – 20-Oct-2014

Windows Phone:

· You will be able to draw and doodle on Skype with new Windows Phone app update – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft releases a ‘critical’ update for Windows Phone preview program – 23-Oct-2014 –

· A new Microsoft Lumia device is coming ‘soon’ as the Nokia name fades from Windows Phone – 24-Oct-2014 –

· App Spotlight: Truecaller now available for Windows Phone – 22-Oct-2014

· Top Rated Windows Phone apps and games for Halloween – 25-Oct-2014

Microsoft Office:

· Office Mix makes it easier – 20-Oct-2014

· Calling the ballgames from OneNote with professional announcers Joe Block & Scott Franzke – 24-Oct-2014

· Toggle between Outlook.com, OneDrive and Office Online with the new app launcher – 22-Oct-2014

· Operation failed when trying to open address lists in Outlook – 23-Oct-2014

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Office Web Apps Server will only be available for Volume License customers shortly – 22-Oct-2014 –

· SharePoint 2013 prerequisites install on Windows 2012 R2 – 23-Oct-2014 –

· Pros and Cons of Cross Site Publishing – 24-Oct-2014 –

· OWAS Configuration and –CertificateName – 23-Oct-2014

· Power BI Primer – 4 part series – 21-Oct-2014

SQL:

· PowerShell and SQL Stored Procedure (The MVP Monday Series) – 20-Oct-2014

· New SQL Server Assessment Intelligence Pack in Advisor! – 22-Oct-2014 –

· Cumulative Update 4 Released for SQL Server 2014 – 21-Oct-2014 –

· How to Hadoop: 4 Resources to Learn and Try Cloud Big Data – 22-Oct-2014

· Cloudera Selects Azure as a Preferred Cloud Platform – 21-Oct-2014

System Center:

· IIS Log Format Requirements in System Center Advisor – 19-Oct-2014

· DPM error on System State – 21-Oct-2014

· Quick Fix. OM12x: UX Agents Not Updating – 21-Oct-2014

KB’s:

· “DNS query failed” error when an email message is stuck in the Draft folder in an Exchange Server 2013 environment – 20-Oct-2014 –

· ADFS 2.1 SQL farm deployment fails if you do not have SQL permissions – 24-Oct-2014 –

· Lync Meeting control is not displayed on the Outlook 2013 ribbon – 19-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 DNS Diagnostics and DNS configuration – 21-Oct-2014 –

· Shared mailboxes moved from on-premises environments to Office 365 are converted to user mailboxes after directory synchronization – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 users experience performance issues in Outlook when you use a public DNS service – 17-Oct-2014 –

· High memory usage by W3wp process of default application pool in an Exchange Server 2010 environment – 24-Oct-2014

· Outlook Plain Text messages truncated after upgrade to Exchange 2013 SP1 – 24-Oct-2014

· Power/shutdown button may be missing from the Windows 8.1 start screen – 23-Oct-2014

· Troubleshooting AD Replication error 8451: The replication operation encountered a database error – 23-Oct-2014

· How to troubleshoot Windows PowerShell issues that affect Exchange Online for Office 365 – 24-Oct-2014

· Upgrading to Office 2013 or Office 365 – 17-Oct-2014

· Restricting Active Directory RPC traffic to a specific port – 20-Oct-2014

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· Optimizing Azure Site Recovery (ASR) with Riverbed® SteelHead™ WAN Optimizers – 25-Oct-2014

· Site Discovery Toolkit for IE11 – 24-Oct-2014

· Microsoft Finance Leverages Power BI to Transform Reporting – 23-Oct-2014

· Protect and control your key information assets through information classification – 23-Oct-2014

· Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software Development Kit (SDK) for CRM Online and on-premises CRM 2015 – 23-Oct-2014

Scripts & PowerShell:

· Should I Upgrade to Latest Windows PowerShell Version? – 20-Oct-2014 –

· Enable Lync user, Assign Policies, enable Enterprise Voice – Script & input CSV – 22-Oct-2014 –

· Weekend Scripter: Why upgrade to PowerShell 4.0? – 19-Oct-2014 –

· Upgrade to PowerShell 4.0 Because It Is Easier to Use – 21-Oct-2014 –

· My Path to a PowerShell 4.0 Upgrade – 23-Oct-2014 –

· PowerTip: Determine PowerShell Version on Your System – 20-Oct-2014

· Outlook: Registry Key to Grey out the Signature – 25-Oct-2014