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This article is based on the personal installation experience of Jukka Niiranen, documented in his blog post . Large number of customers still work with Outlook 2007, which is lacking a few nice features in the UI . There a few issues that might cause problems in the Outlook client installation...

This article originally appeared on the Customer Effective Blog One of the items frequently requested, especially in large deployments of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, has been the ability to control Outlook client synchronization. CRM for Outlook provides a fantastic bi-directional synchronization...

With this script you can add a custom prompt for playing a message while a call is being transfered to another queue. This script will import a prompt (25.wav) from the directory C:\temp and play the prompt when calls will "overflow" from one queue to another. $x = Get-CsRgsQueue ...

Symptom When you install run the AD FS 2.0 setup (AdfsSetup.exe) on Windows Server 2008, the PowerShell feature, which is a prerequisite of AD FS 2.0, may not be installed, even though the installer indicates that it will be. When setup attempts to install the PowerShell feature, you will see...

Symptom Consider a scenario where Forefront TMG 2010 is using an internal WSUS Server in order to obtain updates. The Server where TMG is installed is able to obtain all Windows related updates but it is not able to obtain NIS signature. If the TMG Administrator changes Windows Update option to...

When you manage objects, you automatically also manage attributes. On a very high level, you can group the world of attributes into two classes. One of these classes is known as “reference attributes”. Ironically, I have no idea, what the name of the second class – the “ non-reference attributes...

[This article originally appeared in "The Edge Man" blog at http://blogs.technet.com/tomshinder/archive/2010/03/13/uag-directaccess-group-policy-assignment-make-sure-the-right-policies-are-applied.aspx ] (Discuss UAG DirectAccess issues on the TechNet Forums over at http://social.technet...

Ping-them Dolav Hadas Type: GUI Creating a computer list You can add computer names manually , by writing a computer name and pressing the + button. You can use all the known keys (ENTER, DEL, CTRL+A, SHIFT+Arrows, …) Clears the list Creating...

Recently I ran into a situation where I needed to customize the OS capture media in System Center Configuration Manager 2007 as the standard capture media created by ConfigMgr does not have any way to be modified or customized. The reason for customizing the capture media was to create an image...

EventcombMt is a freeware tool from Microsoft, which can be used to gather Eventlogs from mutiple servers, all from one central location. EventcombMt, is part of the Account Lockout and Management Tools . EventCombMT is a multithreaded tool that you can use to search the event logs of several...

[ This article is posted at ElMajdal.Net website : http://www.elmajdal.net/ISAServer/How_To_Identify_a_Trial_Version_of_ISA_Server_2006.aspx ] Imagine the following scenarios, you have been hired by a company and assigned to be an ISA Server administrator, you do not know if this ISA Server is licensed...

A community is about helping each other and sharing information. One method to share information and also to collaborate with others in a community is to write a Wiki article . For ILM, you can already find a collection of helpful articles on the Wiki site. To improve the discoverability...

Welcome Thank you for your interest in the Windows® HPC Server 2008 R2 Resource Kit. Windows HPC Server 2008 R2 provides a productive and cost-effective high-performance computing (HPC) solution that runs on x64-bit hardware and that can be deployed, managed, and extended using familiar tools...

If you are using some method other than WSUS to distribute the initial FCS installer you may find the following steps useful to obtain the latest rollup for the client package. You will need a WSUS server in your environment to do this. Locate the update in WSUS for which you need to locate the files...

When you are going to consider upgrading from Exchange Server SP1 to SP2 on Single Copy Cluster environment, following needs to be taken care..Our Environment as follows 2 Domain controller 2 Hub and CAS 2 Mailbox on SCC 1 Edge server We have to just finish the upgrade process and the steps...

Back to Cloud Identity Scenarios and Solutions for Developers Table of Contents Scenario Solution Approach Analysis Resources Scenario ??? ??? Solution Approach ??? ??? Analysis <<TBD>> Resources Plan for and deploy Active Directory Federation Services...

NOTE: The effects of this action are still being evaluated - use the procedure below for testing purposes only. Table of Contents HTTP Redirect Configure the Redirect Commiting the Change WSS Web Farm Mode So, you've deployed IIS 7 and WSS 3.0 for your FIM Farm and now your users are landing...

Users often ask how you can use the Analysis Services Processing task in Integration Services to process new objects. The problem is that the task UI forces you to choose the items to process, so if they don't exist, you can't choose them. This demo (originally part of a longer white paper...

Based on this thread , the FEP administrator has removed FEP 2010 Eval version and has tried then to install the RTM version, but he was not be able and he has seen this error “setup cannot connect to SQL Analysis services” and in the FEP log file he found the following errors : The problem...

Every forest requires at least one Global Catalog server, that's why by default When you create a Windows Server Active Directory Forest, the first domain controller in the forest is automatically configured to be a Global Catalog server. The global catalog is a distributed data repository that...

Certain programs, like email clients and web browsers, are useful to have running as soon as your computer starts up. When you select too many programs to run upon startup, however, it can degrade your system performance. Take caution in how many startup programs you choose, and reduce the number...

I’ve seen many of people asking if it’s possible to use the FEP2010.admx and FEP2010.adml when the domain controller is Windows Server 2003. The answer is YES but you need to do some steps to achieve this goal. 1. Install the Remote Server Administration Tools on a Windows 7 computer (You can also...

Integration Services uses transformations to manipulate data during an ETL dataflow. Transformations can be used in Data Flow Tasks , between data source and destination components, or other transformations. The Sort transformation basically has only one task: to put the incoming rows in a specified...

One key feature of Microsoft’s Big Data Solution is solid integration of Apache Hadoop with the Microsoft Business Intelligence (BI) components. A good example of this is the ability for Excel to connect to the Hive data warehouse framework in the Hadoop cluster. This section walks you through using...