Securely Wrangle Your Devices with MBAM 2.0
Another big announcement from MMS: Microsoft has released the 2013 version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, importantly containing the Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring...
View ArticlePlease Give a Big Welcome to Microsoft System Center Global Service Monitor
I was excited to see in late March that Microsoft announced the commercial availability of Microsoft System Center Global Service Monitor–the Windows Azure-based service that provides web application...
View ArticlePreventative Health Checkups with Advisor and Ops
In this month’s update to the free-for-all, cloud-built System Center Advisor (SCA), Microsoft has tweaked the service to allow integration with System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), which can help...
View ArticleInterested In Business Intelligence? Look No Further Than Excel 2013!
Many people are surprised to learn that the most popular business intelligence (BI) tool in the world is Microsoft Excel. Microsoft Excel has long been an essential tool for the modern worker, and with...
View ArticleMicrosoft’s “GeoFlow” for Excel 2013 Delivers 3D Big Data Visualization and...
Last week I was thrilled to see that Microsoft announced the preview availability of project codename "GeoFlow" for Excel 2013. GeoFlow is an awesome addition to Excel 2013 that lets you plot...
View ArticleSpringtime for Azure: IaaS Graduates to General Availability
It’s graduation time here at New Signature, and we’re happy to announce that Azure Intrastructure as a Service (IaaS), including Azure Virtual Machines, has graduated to general availability. In...
View ArticleMicrosoft Azure Cloud Service Challenges Amazon On Price, Reliability
PUBLISHED APRIL 16, 2013 on CRN Microsoft Azure Cloud Service Challenges Amazon On Price, Reliability By Rick Whiting The general availability of Microsoft (NSDQ:MSFT)’s Windows Azure Infrastructure...
View ArticleIdentity Overload: AD, Azure AD, Azure DCs and ADFS
Now that Azure IaaS has reached general availability, for customers looking to move to online services such as Office 365, Dynamics CRM Online or Windows Intune, the question always comes up: which...
View ArticleApple OS X Management with SCCM 2012 SP1 – Planning and Differences from...
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 (SCCM) introduces many new important and valuable updates, one of which is the ability to manage Apple OS X computers. New to SP1 is the ability to deploy a...
View ArticleCan You Hear Me Now? Notification Strategies in System Center Operations...
Because System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) provides many different monitors and rules, it would be very difficult to keep track of the various alerts that you could wish to be notified on, and...
View ArticleApril 8, 2014 On the Horizon: 350 Days Until End of Support for Microsoft...
Thursday, October 25, 2001 seems like just yesterday. In the District of Columbia it was unseasonably warm, with a high of 78 degrees Fahrenheit and in Redmond they were releasing Windows XP. Fast...
View ArticleMicrosoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 SP1 Released with Microsoft...
Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 SP1 is now available as part of Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP) 2013! Although the change log is not particularly long, the new service pack...
View ArticleOffice 365 and Office 2013: Cloud Licensing Made Easy
The days of having two disparate installers for volume licensed and subscription-based Office are over! With Office 2013 the capability now exists to easily switch between your volume and subscription...
View ArticleGet Up To Speed On the Updates and Hotfixes Released for System Center 2012 SP1
2013 is proving to be a very busy year so far in terms of Microsoft’s commitment to its System Center product line. With MMS 2013 just a few weeks behind us now, it can get a little daunting to try to...
View ArticleCloud Copy: Replicating Virtual Machines from System Center Virtual Machine...
Moving your organization’s infrastructure to the cloud can be a daunting task when viewed as a whole. Taking the transition step-by-step will help to facilitate the migration and ensure that the...
View ArticleUsing PowerShell to Find Packages in App-V 5.0 Client Connection Groups
Connection Groups is a feature of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0 that links related packages and enabled them to interact with one another while still maintaining the sandbox style...
View ArticleRemotely Access Azure from a Train, Plane or even Spain!
Microsoft recently announce two large changes to Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) that will empower customers to be able to access the public cloud from any location with Internet access. They...
View Article“Open with Explorer” Errors in SharePoint
Microsoft SharePoint 2007 or greater has included an option allowing you to open Document Libraries with Windows Explorer. This feature allows the user to open and interact with files and folders in...
View ArticleWhere am I? Finding your Office 365 mailbox server using Internet Explorer
Previous versions of Office 365 exposed a user’s mailbox server in the Help or Option sections of webmail. This is useful when configuring Outlook when Outlook won’t /can’t properly autodiscover its...
View ArticleSuccess! Deploying Office 2013 Click to Run with Windows Intune
Finally, a concrete solution to a nuisance that has bothered Windows Intune administrators for months: How do I deploy the newest release of Office 2013 with Windows Intune if the only install method I...
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