Weekly IT Newsletter – October 13-17, 2014

Microsoft Exchange:

· Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 16) – 16-Oct-2014 –

· E-mail Forensics in a Corporate Exchange Environment (Part 5) – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Using Search-Mailbox to look for items with a specific date – 17-Oct-2014 –

· How to build the best email encryption policy – Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft turns off the last public folder in their internal Exchange deployment – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Troubleshooting Event ID 15021 in Exchange Server 2013 – 14-Oct-2014

· Messages Queuing with Error 451 4.4.0 DNS Query Failed – 15-Oct-2014

· The strange case of the MailboxSentItemsConfiguration cmdlets – 13-Oct-2014

· Filtering event log entries – 16-Oct-2014

Microsoft Lync:

· Lync 2013 Client Update – October 2014 – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Announcing the Lync Online client devices report – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Simpler, better instant messaging options in Lync 2013 – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Top 10 Tips for Supporting & Troubleshooting Lync 2013 Infographic – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Polycom UC Software 4.1.8 for VVX Business Media Phones – 15-Oct-2014 –

· How Lync Edge2013 Media Establishment – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Lync KHI importer – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Client Registry Keys (Part Six) – 14-Oct-2014 –

· TIP: Find Lync 2013 Address Book Master Role – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Polycom® CX5100 and CX5500 Unified Conference Stations for Microsoft® Lync® Software Version 1.1.2 – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Upcoming Webinar: Planning for a Lync 2013 on a Global Scale – 17-Oct-2014

· Lync 2013 CU4, CU5 Update installer – Windows Fabric Error 1603 – 14-Oct-2014

· Lync Server Centralized Logging Service Agent Service could not be started – 15-Oct-2014

· Update Digest: Lync 2013 Client – Hide Pictures in IM, etc. (Oct 2014) – 15-Oct-2014

· MSTurnPing Bug – 14-Oct-2014

· Bill Gates Imagines Future Meeting Room Application With Office Fully Integrated Into Experience – 13-Oct-2014

· KEMP LoadMaster now fully validated for Microsoft Lync 2013 – 15-Oct-2014

· Persistent Chat – User is not sip-enabled / cannot access Response Group settings – 14-Oct-2014

· Microsoft releases October 2014 update for Lync 2013 (KB2889929) – 14-Oct-2014

Active Directory:

· Workday inbound user provisioning with Azure AD now in preview! – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Active Directory Migration Service (ADMS) From Microsoft – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Backup and Restore Instructions for the DirSync Database – 16-Oct-2014 –

· A history of DirSync and the new Azure AD Sync Services tool – 14-Oct-2014 –

· See GoateePFE Live or On-Demand Talking about Active Directory PowerShell – 16-Oct-2014

Office 365:

· New Office 365 Sales Guidance for SMBs – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Introducing Microsoft Ignite – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Improving Outlook Web App options and settings – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Office 365 – Understanding Archiving in Lync Online – 16-Oct-2014 –

· One-Time Passcode for Office 365 Message Encryption – 13-Oct-2014 –

· How many Personal sites do I have in my O365 tenant? – 14-Oct-2014

· How Secure is Your Cloud? – Introduction to Office 365 Security – 13-Oct-2014

· Organize your Office 365 with the new app launcher – 16-Oct-2014

· Evolving Exchange Online Protection (EOP) to protect against tomorrow’s threats – 15-Oct-2014

· Garage Series for Office 365: PowerShell basics and the space race – 15-Oct-2014

Windows Azure:

· Azure Automation 102 with PowerShell and Chris Sanders | Azure Friday – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Want to Spend a Day Learning About Azure? For Free?! – 13-Oct-2014 –

· More Azure Solution Pricing Examples – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Deck and resources: Disaster Recovery to the Cloud with Azure Site Recovery – 17-Oct-2014

· Deck and resources: Open Source + Microsoft Azure – 14-Oct-2014

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2:

· Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 is here! – 15-Oct-2014 –

· Introduction to Network Trace Analysis Using Microsoft Message Analyzer— Part 2 – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Windows Server 2012 R2 – Couldn’t Create A New Partition – 14-Oct-2014

Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10:

· My top 10 Start screen wishes for Windows 10 – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Windows 10: A few bits about the next Technical Preview release – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Changes to Windows Store app behavior in Windows 10 – 15-Oct-2014 –

· Windows 10 Preview – VMs Missing In Hyper-V Manager – 16-Oct-2014

· Disable Windows Update in Windows 10 – 13-Oct-2014

Windows Phone:

· Microsoft updates Windows App Studio Beta with 9 new languages and Windows Phone 8.1 support – 16-Oct-2014

· New Cortana features rolling out with evening glance, flight tracking, and more – 17-Oct-2014

· Here is what is coming in the next WhatsApp update for Windows Phone – 16-Oct-2014

Microsoft Office:

· Office 2010 SP2–You Did Upgrade, Right? – 14-Oct-2014 –

· New Recover Deleted Items from Server button in Outlook – 16-Oct-2014

· Throwback Thursday: If only I had OneNote when I was in college – 16-Oct-2014

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Office Web Apps 2013 server not working, CPU Utilization 100% – 17-Oct-2014

SQL:

· Expanding the Availability and Deployment of Hadoop Solutions on Microsoft Azure – 17-Oct-2014

· The ins and outs of Apache Storm – real-time processing for Hadoop – 16-Oct-2014

· Microsoft announces real-time analytics in Hadoop and new ML capabilities in Marketplace – 15-Oct-2014

System Center:

· Your Own Dashboard in Advisor! – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Unifying SCCM and WSUS – Part 3: Maintenance windows, monitoring, and troubleshooting – 17-Oct-2014

· Use of ConfigMgr 2012 Client MP: Real Life Examples – 15-Oct-2014

· KB: Groups disappear when a top-level object is added to a distributed application service model in Operations Manager – 16-Oct-2014

· KB: Wildcard matching rule fails and Event ID 10303 is logged in Operations Manager 2012 and 2007 – 15-Oct-2014

KB’s:

· List of currently available hotfixes for Distributed File System (DFS) technologies in Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2012 R2 – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Update for Azure Backup for Microsoft Azure Recovery Services Agent – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Long logon time after you set a specific static port for NTDS and Netlogon in a Windows Server 2008 R2-based domain environment – 16-Oct-2014 –

· A domain controller freezes when an event subscription manager list is long in Windows – 14-Oct-2014 –

· October 2014 compatibility update for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 – 14-Oct-2014 –

· OffCAT scan is incomplete when DefaultProfile is not specified in the registry – 17-Oct-2014 –

· Office 2010 cumulative update for October 2014 – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Groups disappear when a top-level object is added to a distributed application service model in Operations Manager – 15-Oct-2014

· Wildcard matching rule fails and Event ID 10303 is logged in Operations Manager 2012 and 2007 – 14-Oct-2014

· Multipath I/O identifies different disks as the same disk in Windows – 15-Oct-2014

· RPD 8.1 client for Windows 7 or Windows Server 2008 R2 disconnects when it is connected through a RD gateway – 14-Oct-2014

· Windows Server 2012-based cluster freezes after you enable the data deduplication feature – 14-Oct-2014

· Update for RDC 7.1 to support restricted administration logons on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 – 17-Oct-2014

· “Access is denied” error when you perform a backup or run “vssadmin list writers” on a cluster node in Windows Server 2012 – 14-Oct-2014

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

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· OneDrive for Business Client Network Bandwidth Calculator – 18-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 RC is available to download now – 16-Oct-2014 –

· October 2014 Security Release ISO Image – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.4.5 Update – 16-Oct-2014 –

· Microsoft Push Notifications Service (MPNS) Public IP ranges – 16-Oct-2014

· Microsoft Dynamics NAV 2015 System Requirements – 16-Oct-2014

· AppLocker Deployment at Microsoft – 16-Oct-2014

· Active Directory Rights Management Services at Microsoft – 16-Oct-2014

· Microsoft IT Implementation of Disaster Recovery in the Datacenter – 16-Oct-2014

· System Center Technical Preview Operations Manager – Evaluation (VHD) – 13-Oct-2014

Scripts & PowerShell:

· PowerShell Tip: List Active Mailbox Database Copies for an Exchange Server Database Availability Group – 14-Oct-2014 –

· Building PowerShell with WMIv2 – 13-Oct-2014 –

· Weekend Scripter: Why Learn PowerShell? – 18-Oct-2014 –

· How to find SQL Server database restore information – 14-Oct-2014

· How to extend the task sequence error timeout duration in ConfigMgr 2012 SP1 – 17-Oct-2014

· PowerTip: Use PowerShell to Remove Characters in a String – 16-Oct-2014

· Get-DirectorySize : Quickly finding what was eating all my hard drive space with PowerShell – 16-Oct-2014