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Step-By-Step: Backup your PC data to Azure
Hello Folks, On December 16, 2014 we announced that you can now backup the data from Windows 7,...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 01/08/2015
Device Management Strategy Planning: More Questions Than Answers
Within the last few years, while in meeting discussing a Mobile Device Management (MDM) strategies,...
Author: MVP Colin Smith Date: 01/06/2015
Top 4 Windows 10 Useful Hidden Features and Hotkeys
With the holidays now over and the 2015 Consumer Electronic Show in full swing, its that magical...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 01/05/2015
Step-By-Step: Removing Windows 8.1 Modern Apps with PowerShell
PowerShell a great tool for IT professionals allowing them to save time in completing day to day...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 12/29/2014
Step-By-Step: Windows 10 Start Menu Customization via PowerShell
Introduced in Windows 8.1, the Start Screen has the ability to be setup as an informational...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 12/22/2014
Étape par Étape: Déploiment des Lync Services de Surveillances
Des modifications importantes ont été apportées à l’infrastructure...
Author: MVP Christophe Boucetta Date: 12/16/2014
Step-By-Step: Deploying Lync Server 2013 Monitoring
Recently, significant changes have come to the Microsoft Lync Server 2013 surveillance...
Author: MVP Christophe Boucetta Date: 12/16/2014
Mobility Solutions: Enabling Workplace Join Via PowerShell
Workplace join is a great secure enabler of devices that traditionally cannot join a organizations...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 12/15/2014
Group Policy: Creating A Standard Local Admin Account
Much has been covered thus far in the Group Policy series: How to create a new policy How to link a...
Author: MVP Garth Gorling Date: 12/10/2014
Migrate a Virtual Machine from On-Premise to Microsoft Azure
Hello Folks, Today I delivered one the largest “Getting Started with Microsoft Azure” camp to date....
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 12/08/2014
Device Management Strategy Planning: Defining the Opportunity
To this day, many organizations still struggle with regards to device management strategy. While...
Author: MVP Colin Smith Date: 12/02/2014
Microsoft Intune Policies For Samsung Knox Enabled Devices
While delivering last week’s CANITPRO Business Mobility Camp in Calgary, a question was...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 12/01/2014
Top 7 New Improvements Now Found in Microsoft Intune
Microsoft Intune has see quite a few updates over recent months aside from its recent renaming. The...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 11/26/2014
Step-By-Step: Migrating DHCP From Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2
End of support for Windows Server 2003 is nearing quickly. To address this concern, Microsoft...
Author: MVP Dishan Francis Date: 11/25/2014
Dive Deep in Your Own Environment With Operational Insight
Hello folks, One of the new Microsoft Azure service that was announced at TechEd Europe is Azure...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 11/25/2014
Addressing Shadow IT Via Enabling Azure Active Directory Services
The age of Shadow IT was introduced not so long ago via the plethora of devices (smartphones /...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 11/19/2014
Group Policy: Creating a New Policy Linked Directly To Its OU
In a previous post, Group Policy: Introducing Consistency Into Your Infrastructure, we covered some...
Author: MVP Garth Gorling Date: 11/18/2014
Windows Server 2012 R2: Reducing The Attack Footprint Through Features On Demand
Windows Server 2012 R2, when deployed in core mode, provides the smallest installation footprint...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 11/12/2014
Step-By-Step: Migrating The Active Directory Certificate Service From Windows Server 2003 to 2012 R2
As you may be aware, support for both Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 is coming to end on July 14th...
Author: MVP Dishan Francis Date: 11/11/2014
Step-By-Step: Migrating a 2003 file server with Microsoft File Server Migration Toolkit
On a recent post entitled, Step-By-Step: Migrating a Windows Server 2003 file server, NTFS and Share...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 11/05/2014
Group Policy: Introducing Consistency Into Your Infrastructure
We all want things to run smoothly, yet day-to-day operations sometimes get the better of us. As IT...
Author: MVP Garth Gorling Date: 11/04/2014
Step-by-Step: Create a VM with multiple NICs in Azure
Hello folks, The following topic is another one of those features that has been requested so many...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 11/04/2014
Step-By-Step: Migrating a Windows Server 2003 file server, NTFS and Share Rights to Windows Server 2012 R2
With time ticking in regards to end of support on Windows Server 2003, most IT professionals are in...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 10/29/2014
Step-By-Step: Configuring AD FS Servers in an Internal Load-Balanced Set in Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On
After completing the 2 previous posts entitled, Step-By-Step: Enabling A Primary AD FS Server in...
Author: MVP Kelsey Epps Date: 10/28/2014
Step-by-Step: Assign a Public IP to a VM in Azure
Hello Folks, I’m sitting here reviewing my notes from the Azure IT Camps we have been running in the...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 10/28/2014
Lessons learned from Windows XP Regarding Upcoming Windows Server 2003 End Of Life
On July 14th 2015, Windows Server 2003 will reach end of life. While some organizations are still...
Author: MVP Colin Smith Date: 10/21/2014
Attaching disks to a VM in Azure
Hello folks, Last week in Toronto during a delivery of our “Getting Started with Microsoft Azure for...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 10/21/2014
Need help creating your Runbooks in Azure? Look no further…
Hello folks, Last August i wrote about using automation to help manage your Azure environment in a...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 10/15/2014
Step-By-Step: Enabling A Secondary AD FS 3.0 Server in Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On
Now that the first AD FS server is setup and federated with Office365, additional servers can be...
Author: MVP Kelsey Epps Date: 10/15/2014
BYOD Basics: Managing iOS 8 Devices Via Microsoft Intune
With the recent release of iOS 8, many IT Professionals have been wondering how said devices with...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 10/09/2014
Step-By-Step: Uninstalling A Microsoft Lync Server 2013
Depending on the circumstances, it is sometimes necessary to uninstall Microsoft Lync Server 2013 a...
Author: MVP Christophe Boucetta Date: 10/08/2014
Step-By-Step: Configuring Windows 8 for Reset and Refresh
Hello Folks, Last weekend i finally got my new Surface Pro 3. woohoo!! (I love this thing). So i...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 10/06/2014
Step-By-Step: Creating and Running A Windows 10 VM on Windows 8.1
With the Windows 10 Technical Preview now available, many IT Professionals and those who are...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 10/01/2014
Windows 10 for IT Professionals
On September 30th 2014, Terry Myerson and Joe Belfiore of the Windows team unveiled...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 10/01/2014
Step-By-Step: Setting up the new Azure AD Sync Tool
Hello Folks, A while back, Anthony Bartolo wrote about Syncing An On Premise AD with Azure Active...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 09/29/2014
Step-By-Step: Creating a custom UNIX provider for System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager
When managing UNIX servers with System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, the ability to...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 09/25/2014
Tips on Migrating A Hyper-V Cluster
Microsoft did a brilliant job in creating a procedure to upgrade Hyper-V Clusters from 2012 to 2012...
Author: MVP Marcos Nogueira Date: 09/23/2014
Step-By-Step: Creating a File Share in Azure
Hello Folks, Last week I wrote about using Microsoft Azure to create an offsite copy of a fileset in...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 09/22/2014
Understanding Windows Server 2012 R2 Licensing
Microsoft introduced Windows Server 2012 R2 as the “Gateway to the Cloud.” Allowing...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 09/18/2014
Review Hotfixes When Adding Your First Windows 2012 R2 Domain Controller
One of our customers recently approved the upgrade of their infrastructure to Windows 2012 R2 Active...
Author: MVP Dave Kawula Date: 09/16/2014
Create an Offsite Copy of a Fileset in Azure
Hello Folks, During our latest round of Azure Camps a question keeps coming back when we get to the...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 09/16/2014
BYOD Basics: Securely Enabling iOS in the Workplace
In light of recent announcements, IT professionals are now awaiting the onslaught of requests to add...
Author: Anthony Bartolo Date: 09/11/2014
Step-By-Step: Enabling A Primary AD FS Server in Azure for Office365 Single Sign-On
This Step-By-Step will provide instruction to setup a primary AD FS 3.0 server on a Windows Server...
Author: MVP Kelsey Epps Date: 09/10/2014
11 Sample Runbooks to Help You Build Your Own
Hello Folks, 2 weeks ago, I posted an article regarding Automating Azure with runbooks. I got some...
Author: Pierre Roman Date: 09/08/2014
Step-By-Step: Adding Domain User Access to a Local User’s Profile
Sometimes the best laid migration plans go awry. Why? Time after time the answer is the same:...
Author: MVP Garth Gorling Date: 09/02/2014