Weekly IT Newsletter – August 17-21, 2015

Microsoft Exchange:

· Provisioning Exchange Online for Lync Hybrid Part III – UCPrimer –

· Exchange: UPN’s Role in ActiveSync Autodiscover –

· Exchange 2013 Health Manager generating alerts in SCOM after reboot

· Exchange Server 2013 offsite protection using DPM and Microsoft Azure (Part 4)

· Configure disk volumes to optimize your Exchange performance

· Fix for MSExchange Unified Messaging Event ID 1423 “A TLS API failure occurred. Error = 0x80090331”

Skype for Business:

· How The Default SIP Domain Impacts Exchange Online UM Connections | Microsoft Enterprise Technologies –

· Microsoft Lync Client/Server in a Cisco Wireless LAN – Cisco –

· Reset Fix Skype for Business and Lync accounts …And a bonus! –

· Skype for Business Certified Headsets Guide v1.0

· What’s New in Skype for Business – Webinar

· Decommissioning Skype for Business Hybrid and Going Cloud Only | Mark Vale’s Blog

· Skype for Business Address Book Normalisation Tool | My Skype Lab

Active Directory:

· The Hidden dangers of Service Principal Names (SPN) –

· How to troubleshoot Active Directory replication error 5 “Access is denied” in Windows Server

Office 365:

· Office 365 Mobile Device Management Enrolment on Apple iOS Devices –

· Introducing the Office IT Pro Deployment Script project –

· Office 365 news roundup –

· Office 365 Mailbox Migration – Target Mailbox Doesn‎’t Have An SMTP Proxy Matching

· Intune and Exchange ActiveSync (Part 4)

· Getting to grips with Office 365 Message Encryption

· New Windows 10, iOS, and Android features coming over next week

· Office 365 – Common Confusion with Email Retention Policies

· Beyond MDM—how to protect your data with BYOD and SaaS implemented

Microsoft Azure:

· Cloud Foundry on Azure Preview 2 Now Available –

· Azure Government Achieves Significant Compliance Milestones –

· Announcing Backup of Windows 10 machines using Azure Backup –

· How to resize an Azure disk

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

· Azure Site Recovery is now available in Central US, North Central US, South Central US, East US2

Windows Server:

· Download Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview 3 –

· What’s new in Windows Server 2016 and System Center 2016 Technical Preview 3 –

· Workgroup and Multi-domain clusters in Windows Server 2016 –

· Site-aware Failover Clusters in Windows Server 2016

· New Shared VHDX features in Windows Server 2016

· Name Resolution Performance of a Recursive Windows DNS Server 2012 R2

Windows Client:

· Windows 10 Frequently Asked Questions –

· Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 10525 –

· Windows 10 tools: MDT 2013 Update 1, Windows ADK for Windows 10, MDOP 2015, and RSAT –

· Download Windows 10 ADMX templates and Group Policy Excel sheet

· Disable Windows 10 Update in the Registry and with PowerShell

· Disabling Windows 10’s Wi-Fi Sense for Business Devices

· Microsoft issues emergency patch for critical IE bug under active exploit

Windows Phone:

· How to move your photos from Android to Windows 10

· Windows Phone Weekly Digest: August 16, 2015

· Top Sports Games in the Windows 10 Store

· Microsoft expected to hold launch event for Surface, Lumia flagships and Band 2 in October

Microsoft Office:

· Deeper integration between Office documents and Outlook for iOS –

· New Outlook Add-Ins : Uber, PayPal, Evernote –

· Visualize statistics with Histogram, Pareto and Box and Whisker charts

· Make your own custom shapes in PowerPoint

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Power BI General Availability Date Announced –

· Get SharePoint Online Site Properties using Powershell and CSOM

· Create Multiple Websites

· Removing on-hold items from Exchange and SharePoint: unsupported but doable

· SharePoint Foundation – User Profile Synchronization

SQL:

· SQL Server 2014 RTM Cumulative Update #9 is available! –

· Azure SQL – Row Level Security Now Available

· Data Tales #2: The Case of the Exploding Table

System Center:

· DPM 2012 R2 UR#7: Hotfix –

· Updated MP: Server OS Version 6.0.7297.0 –

· Issue With Update Rollups& OMS Based Agents

· KB: Event 31551 when Operations Manager tries to connect to the Data Warehouse database

· System Center Management Pack for Windows Server Operating System has been updated

· Submit your SCOM VNext Feature Requests

KB’s:

· Outlook can’t set up a new profile by using Exchange Autodiscover for an Exchange Online mailbox in Office 365

· User can’t view free/busy information for a remote user in a hybrid deployment of on-premises Exchange Server and Exchange Online in Office 365

· “You must add your Exchange Online tenant as an additional forest” message when you run the Hybrid Configuration wizard in Exchange 2010

· Lots of false positives are generated when the “SPF record: hard fail” advanced spam filtering option is enabled

· Back up your files with File History in Windows 8.1

· August 2015 cumulative time zone update for Windows operating systems

· “HCW8019”, “HCW8021”, “HCW8022”, or “HCW8023” error when you run the Hybrid Configuration wizard

· MS15-093: Security update for Internet Explorer: August 18, 2015

· “‎Subtask Configure execution failed: Upgrading hybrid configuration from Exchange 2010” error when you run the Hybrid Configuration wizard

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 10 Released –

· Fix for a known issue with Update Rollup 7 for System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager

· System Center Technical Preview 3 Virtual Machine Manager – Evaluation (VHD)

· Software Defined Network scripts for Windows Server 2016 Technical Preview

· Top five things to avoid when deploying BI at Microsoft

· August 2015 Security Release ISO Image

Scripts & PowerShell:

· New PowerShell 5 Feature Provids Better Registry Support

· PowerTip: Looking at Logs with PowerShell