Weekly IT Newsletter – August 3-7, 2015

Microsoft Exchange:

· Installing Exchange Server 2016 –

· Exchange Unwashed Digest July 2015 –

· Installing Exchange Server 2016 Pre-Requisites on Windows Server 2012 R2

· Exchange UM diagnostic logging commandlets

· Text Emoticon Outlook and OWA Compose App

· Exchange Archiving: On-Premises vs Cloud-Based (Part 4)

· Exchange 2016: You’ll swear it’s Exchange 2013

· Exclaimer Cloud – Signatures for Office 365

· How the Autodiscover service works with Outlook 2016 for Mac

Skype for Business:

· Skype for Business Windows Phone Update 6.1 –

· Skype for Business PSTN conferencing –

· CX5100 and CX5500 Release 1.1.4

· Configuring Skype for Business Websites IIS Log Directory on a range of Front End Servers

· Enhanced Skype for Business presence information

· SfB User Tips n Tricks eBook

Active Directory:

· Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 is now GA! –

· Diving into the Netlogon Parser (v3.5) for Message Analyzer –

· Windows 10 Group Policy (.ADMX) Templates now available for download –

· Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 starts rolling out

Office 365:

· New features coming to Outlook on the web –

· Office 365 news roundup –

· Introduction to Office 365 Mobile Device Management –

· Office 365 Groups for Admins – simple reporting using PowerShell

· Take control of your Office 365 Theme!

· Use Office 365 MDM to protect your tenant

Windows Azure:

· Setting Static IP address on Windows Azure –

· Azure ExpressRoute offers new Office 365 connection –

· Deploying Sample Applications to an Azure Web App –

· Azure Active Directory Connect Export profile error: stopped-server-down

· Remote Profiling support in Azure App Service

· A key IT decision: Which apps to move to the cloud

· Azure: Did You Know? Virtual Machine Config Management – DevOps

Windows Server 2012 & Windows Server 2012 R2:

· Set up a high availability Hyper-V cluster

· Securing Hyper-V with the Virtual Machine Generation Identifier

Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10:

· Stop automatic updates in Windows 10 RTM (build 10240) –

· New and updated PC accessories for Windows 10 –

· Windows 10 is running on more than 25 million devices –

· Windows 10’s privacy policy is the new normal

· Reasons Why Windows 10 Might be Downloading on Domain-Joined Computers

· Stop recent view in Explorer in Windows 10

· Google has updated its only app in the Windows Store, Google Search, for Windows 10

Windows Phone:

· Microsoft’s Project Astoria has leaked letting Windows 10 Mobile sideload Android APKs directly –

· The popular Talkray messaging app makes its Windows Phone debut

· Fantastic Windows Phone games to pass the time with

· Lumia 940 and 940 XL coming this year, together with a Lumia 840

· Windows Phone hardware sales missed Microsoft’s own internal goals ahead of division’s write-down

Microsoft Office:

· Sway for Windows 10 is now available –

· What’s new in PowerPoint 2016 for Mac? –

· Skype for Outlook.com and web now supports free group voice and video calls –

· OneDrive Shared Folder sync support rolling out to Windows 10 and other platforms

· Microsoft Outlook For Apple Watch One-Ups Apple’s Native Email Client

· Introducing the Waterfall chart—a deep dive to a more streamlined chart

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· How to dynamically hide web part in SharePoint so it won’t take place on a page

· Why Yammer Enterprise is important in dev/test environments

SQL:

· The Case Of The Auto-Truncating Table

· DBTA – StretchDB, a Cool New Feature in vNext SQL Server

System Center:

· SCOM 2012 R2 UR#7 Release Delayed For Some Time… –

· PowerShell: Identifying SCOM Operational Alerts & Modifying Resolution State

· Cross Post: SCOM (Web) Console Examples

· Automating OpsMgr Part 12: Creating Performance Collection Rules

· Support Tip: Error message when deleting the Subscribers object from AdministrationNotifications in Operations Manager

KB’s:

· Duplicate contacts are created when you synchronize a mobile device by using Exchange ActiveSync –

· Issues that may occur when you use Edge together with Office 365 –

· Office 365: Outlook and mobile device connectivity troubleshooting resources –

· Outlook Voice Access (OVA) is not available when you call from a shared mailbox

· “403: Forbidden” error when you try to view organization-wide free/busy information

· Description of Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 R2

· Windows Update Client for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: August 2015

· Troubleshoot AD FS issues in Azure Active Directory and Office 365

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· Message Analyzer 1.3.1 Update Released –

· Azure Active Directory Connect Health Agent –

· Administrative Templates (.admx) for Windows 10 –

· Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2015 –

· Internet Information Services (IIS) 10.0 Express

· Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2015 Best Practices Documentation

Scripts & PowerShell:

· Cool Stuff about PowerShell 5 in Windows 10 –

· Weekend Scripter: Exploring Windows PowerShell 5 –

· Deploying long-running background jobs with Windows PowerShell Workflow

· Windows Management Framework (WMF) 5.0 Roadmap

· Get Office 365 Report – Mailbox Size, Last Logon Time, License

· Export Email PST file from Office 365

· Create Temporary Files with PowerShell 5

· PowerShell script to copy favorites from IE to Edge in Windows 10

· PowerShell Gallery – New Security Scan