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Orchestrator System Center Integrations Part 4 – Adding Alerts to Operations...
At this point, we have used Orchestrator to create a new computer account in a specific OU in Active Directory. We then used Orchestrator to create the computer based on a template in VMM. We are now...
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Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 (Part 1)
Microsoft announced the release of Exchange 2013 last fall, but this was not very useful to most of us, because there was no support for previous versions of Exchange until new Service Packs and...
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Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 (Part 2)
In my previous post on Upgrading from Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 on Windows 2012 (Part 1), we covered the prerequisites to installing Exchange 2013 in your Exchange 2010 environment. In this...
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Install Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 1
On April 2, 2013, Microsoft release Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2013. For details about this update visit Description of Cumulative Update 1 for Exchange Server 2013. The RTM version of...
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Bulk Update AD Objects with a CSV File
Project Description PowerShell script that updates AD objects based on a CSV schema. First, a big thank you to Cary Landers and Nuno Mota. This effort was adapted from:...
View ArticleRemove those extra users from Azure AD and Office 365
When working with the Azure AD Sync Services Tool (a.k.a. DirSync), you’ll often end up with user accounts synced up to Azure AD that you don’t need and will never license. This typically happens...
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Wrangling your Corporate Identity
Your Corporate Identity is no longer in control, as a matter of fact, it’s stampeding towards a cliff. No, I am not referring to branding, viral marketing or even the advent of social media snafus,...
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SSO Fix for using AWS with Azure AD Premium
If you are trying to use the Microsoft provided step by step for AWS SSO, there are several major issues or omissions with the document. The original can be found here:...
View ArticleDirectory Security in the Microsoft Cloud
One of the roadblocks for many of Catapult’s clients is the fear of the unknown when it comes to security in a cloud deployment. When you’re running your systems on-premises, it’s fairly easy to...
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How to gather anything you want from a system and write it to Log Analytics
A colleague of mine recently reached out to me to ask for a query which would display key performance counters for each known server (items like CPU, free disk space, free memory, total memory). In the...
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