Weekly IT Newsletter – August 10-14, 2015
Guy Bachar
August 15, 2015
Active Directory, Azure, Exchange, Lync, Office, Office 365, PowerShell & Scripts, SharePoint, Skype for Business, SQL, System Center, Windows Client, Windows Phone, Windows Server
Newsletter
Microsoft Exchange:
· Hybrid deployment best practices –
· Use Hierarchical Address Book to assign order to recipients –
· The right disks avoid Exchange 2013 storage snags
· Off-boarding email from Office 365 to Exchange 2013 (Part 3)
· Deploying an Exchange 2013 Hybrid Lab Environment in Windows Azure (Part 32) |
Skype for Business:
· Announcing the preview of Skype for Business apps for iOS and Android –
· Gartner Magic Quadrant for Unified Communications 2015 – The Maturity Maze –
· Skype for Business – Call via Work Manager –
· Selective Caller ID Blocking in Lync/Skype for Business –
· Issue: Skype for Business Client Will Not Perform Transfer –
· How to build a custom report for Lync/Skype for Business –
· Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Security Update – August 2015 –
· Skype for Business Mobile Client Preview Release
· Lync 2010 Client Security Update – August 2015 |
Active Directory:
· Move Ad Computer Accounts from csv File into Target OU
· Active Directory Moving Users to Another OU via CSV File
· Now in public preview: The Converged Microsoft Account and Azure Active Directory Programming Model – |
Office 365:
· PowerShell Script to Test Federated Domain Proof TXT Record for Hybrid Deployments –
· What’s new on the Office Roadmap – 2015-08-12 –
· Considerations for naming an Office 365 tenant –
· What’s new: July 2015 –
· Managing Office 365 updates –
· Office 365 Mobile Device Management – Activation and Initial Configuration
· What’s new on the Office Roadmap – 2015-08-13 (Yammer Edition)
· Office 365 Mobile Device Management – Managing Device Policies
· Office 365 Service Comparison Web Site
· Where is my Office 365 tenant? |
Microsoft Azure:
· Static vs. Dynamic Gateways in Azure –
· Azure Data Factory is generally available –
· Azure Files Preview Update –
· Azure HDInsight now available in the Azure Preview Portal –
· Azure Backup enables backup of large volumes, VMs, databases and more
· Azure Media Player update with multi-audio stream support |
Windows Server:
· Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 –
· Windows Server 2016 build 10514 screenshots leak online –
· What’s New in Windows Server 2016 Preview Jump Start –
· Request and Enroll Multi-SAN certificates on Windows Server 2012
· Name Resolution Performance of Authoritative Windows DNS Server 2012 R2
· New Technical Build of Windows Server 2016 Possibly Coming Next Week
· PSA: Great Series on Windows Performance
· Top Ten: New Features in vSphere 6.0 |
Windows 8, Windows 8.1 and Windows 10:
· Microsoft pushes another cumulative update to Windows 10 –
· Windows 10 is now running on more than 50 million devices –
· Windows 10, Azure AD and Microsoft Intune: Automatic MDM enrollment powered by the cloud! –
· Xbox streaming on Windows 10 has a hidden “very high quality” setting
· Windows 10 support on Hyper-V
· Windows 10 vs. 8.1 vs. 7 Performance Tested, Benchmarked
· Windows 10 and your privacy
· Windows 10 Learning Resources
· Fitbit announces their new Universal Windows App for Windows 10, designed to motivate with enhanced features |
Windows Phone:
· Here are the known issues in the new Windows 10 Mobile preview build 10512 –
· Windows Phone Weekly Digest: August 9, 2015 –
· Microsoft rolls out Windows 10 Mobile Insider Preview build 10512 –
· Screenshots of Windows 10 Mobile build 10512 leak
· Microsoft updates Cortana with ability to replace Google Now on Android devices
· Microsoft says its latest Windows 10 Mobile preview includes over 2,000 fixes |
Microsoft Office:
· New Outlook partner add-ins and expanded rollout of Outlook.com preview –
· Preview real-time co-authoring on OneDrive –
· Tip o’ the Week #290 – get your Groove on
· Breaking down hierarchical data with Treemap and Sunburst charts
· Optimizing Yammer for teams
· 10 little-known keyboard shortcuts for editing in PowerPoint
· 4 updates in Power Query for Excel |
SharePoint & Office Web App Server:
· Increase upload file size in Sharepoint 2010
· Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB3055003) |
SQL:
· Always Encrypted with SQL 2016 –
· SSIS Catalog Logging and Reporting in the Enterprise |
System Center:
· SCOM 2012 R2 UR#7 Released! –
· Update Rollup 10 for System Center 2012 SP1 Operations Manager is now available –
· Update Rollup 8 for System Center 2012 Operations Manager is now available –
· Support Tip: OpsMgr web console generates “The Operations Manager web console requires some additional configuration to be fully functional” |
KB’s:
· MS15-080: Description of the security update for Lync 2010: August 11, 2015
· Outlook cannot connect to Gmail after July 15, 2014
· Event 31551 when Operations Manager tries to connect to the Data Warehouse database
· SupportMultipleDomain switch, when managing SSO to Office 365
· RPC Client Access service crashes and Event 4999 is logged in Exchange Server 2013
· August 11, 2015, update for Office |
Downloads & Recent Releases:
· Free eBooks for Windows administrators [updated]
· SQL Server Connector for Microsoft Azure Key Vault
· System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Upgrade Assessment Tool
· Microsoft Dynamics ERP and CRM Fact Sheet
· Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Packs for Windows Server Technical Preview
· Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.5.4 Update |
Scripts & PowerShell:
· IIS Logs Compress and Archive PowerShell Script –
· Weekend Scripter: PowerShell 5 Overview Video –
· Exchange Lync Admin Script –
· PowerTip: Get Latest Entry from Event Log with PowerShell
· How to import ActiveSync devices to Exchange Online
· Bulk Enable Office 365 License Options |
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