Last week I attended the Microsoft Tech Summit in Chicago. It was a fantastic event that offered tons of free training sessions, free exam preparation, and free Azure exams. On top of all that free stuff, the whole event was free. All I really had to pay for was transportation, hotel, and dinner (since I was […]
UPDATE – This issue is reportedly fixed with the January Office patches. See https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3141473 for details. Thanks to Janis for pointing this out! After installation of KB3118374, users that have sync’d calendars and\or task lists from SharePoint Online to their local install of Outlook 2016 are experiencing authentication errors. Symptoms are a popup that reads “The server you […]
I’m beginning to test Windows 10 Enterprise at work. My main goal was to test functionality of our LoB apps, but I pretty immediately became distracted with the option to perform an Azure AD Join instead of a traditional domain join. After the initial installation, you’ll be given these options: Of course I had an […]
I wanted to configure SCCM alerts via e-mail, mostly for Endpoint Protection alerts, but I’m sure down the line some folks will want other subscriptions as well. Given the options (outlined in this TechNet article), and the fact that I won’t need anything going to mailboxes outside of the domain, I chose DirectSend. It is extremely […]
Part 4 – Click to Run installs hate traditional installs. Today I was cruising through some SharePoint configuration, and when I went to install SharePoint Designer 2013 from the o365 portal, I got this message: The “Go online for additional help” link goes here: https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Fix-Office-365-or-Office-2013-install-errors-54554bb8-aa94-43c7-a685-408dd9868c0b?ui=en-US&rs=en-US&ad=US So I have the base Office 2013 suite installed via […]
This is sort of an addendum to Part 1. In my case, my users have Academic E1 licensing for o365 (note that elsewhere in the o365 portal, the same exact license is called Education E1). This means that the vast majority of our users, being on E1, aren’t licensed for a local installation of Office. For […]
Part 2 – Be careful when you mix Office 2013 GPOs with Office 365 ProPlus Since I’m testing installation of Office 2013 and/or Office 365 ProPlus, I decided to test all the options for managing them. I tracked down the Office 2013 Group Policy Templates, and started configuring them to streamline my deployments. I set […]
I’m using SCCM 2012 R2 to deploy Skype for Business (I’m just gonna type SfB from now on, because brevity) as an available install for my users that want to try it (they don’t currently have Lync or anything similar). I’ve run into a few hurdles so far. Part 1 – Post-Install Licensing Oddities After […]
According to the official Remote Desktop Services Blog, the latest update to Azure RemoteApp supports custom application deployments, and is no longer limited to the small menu of pre-canned apps that I’d detailed in my previous post about RemoteApp Preview. I will have to scrounge up something to publish, then update this post.
I can’t take credit for this one, but I wanted to share the solution to sending SMTP e-mail on an Azure WordPress site. Our company has a simple contact form on our website that relies on SMTP. When built in a non-Azure environment, all was well. When we migrated to Azure for webhosting, this was […]