If you have an ADFS or Dirsync with Password sync identity it will not allow you to change your password in the cloud. You will receive. But you can configure change password functionality for ADFS server to solve the issue.
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The last day of VeeamON 2017. My head is hurting from all the great information that Veeam and other vendors have brought to the table. Today I’ve written about the highlights of the 3rd day!
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If you have multiple forests or you need to customized your sign-in option or customize synchronization feature, then this is the recommended option to use.
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The morning of day 2 started off a little different for myself. Some of the media and Veeam Vanguards attended a media and session where they disclosed some information about Veeam and some of the new products. After that it was a free for all! Which breakout session to attend, do I have time to see all the vendor presentations!? Read on to see what I attended.
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If you need a tool to connect your on-premises directory with Azure AD and Office 365, Azure AD Connect is the best way to do it.
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The MOP (Method of Procedure) is assumed you have an office tenant account and the domain have been added to Office 365. I am going to do multi-post and let you know how to migrate your exchange services to Office 365 via step by step.
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Today, let’s talking about how to configure DHCP Cluster with Cisco Call manager service (TFTP services).
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Are you using OneDrive for Business and SharePoint Online with your Office 365 subscription? If so wouldn’t it be nice if you could quickly populate and sync your document libraries from a mapped network drive or a CIFS share sitting on a NAS Appliance. I think this is very important because that is where all of my important files live in a corporate environment. So how exactly can we do this? Well the answer is with Symbolic Links. I have documented this process and gave a presentation at the Calgary Microsoft User Group recently on this exact topic. Luckily,...
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I recently had the chance to work with the Calgary Microsoft User Group and delivered a session titled: An Absolute Beginners Guide to OneDrive for Business. In this session, I helped to level set the technology use cases for OneDrive for Business and showcase some of the new amazing features coming the Sync Client. I also discussed some of the concerns that modern businesses have when implementing and online service such as OneDrive for business including: Backing up, Restoring, Ransomware (WannaCry & CryptoLocker) and more. It was a great session and many thanks to the organizers of the CMUG...
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With the evolution of Storage Spaces Direct coming full circle since Oct/Nov 2016 when Microsoft Launched Windows Server 2016. I still get asked the questions about why RDMA is better than regular TCP/IP and how can I prove it. Well I tell you that there have been extensive tests but don’t just take my work on it. There is an amazing write-up that just came out from the @MellanoxTech Blog by Motti Beck @MottiBeck Sr. Director Enterprise Market Development at Mellanox Technologies Inc. In his blog posts he goes into the deepest of conversations about Storage Spaces Direct &...
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We had such an amazing trip to New Orleans for the annual VeeamON Conference last week. I take a moment and showcase some of the amazing moments that were captured on social media of our team down there. We had a strong representation of Team Kawula and Team TriCon there including: Myself – Dave Kawula – Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard @DaveKawula Super Cristal Kawula – Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard @SuperCristal1 Allan Rafuse – Microsoft MVP and Veeam Vanguard @AllanRafuse Emile Cabot – Microsoft MVP – @ecabot And Cary Sun – 17 year Cisco CCIE – @SiFuSun We...
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Here is the link to the presentation from today session at the wonderful Calgary Microsoft User Group. Today’s session was held at the Chinook Mall location of the Microsoft Store in Calgary, AB. We had an amazing 40 + Register for this session and it was a lot of fun as always to deliver it. In the session we learned about the brand new feature coming with OneDrive and had a good walkthrough on how to differentiate between OneDrive Personal and OneDrive for Business. We also had a chance to learn how to migrate your NAS or File Shares...
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Recently I was asked by a customer to setup a Site-to-Site VPN between a Sophos UTM Firewall and their Azure Portal. Here are the steps that you should follow to get this done. The purpose of setting all of this up was to setup a secure offsite Veeam Backup and Replication Storage Repository to protect against a potential Ransomware attack. Here is the solution working in action. Here is a screen shot of what the finished product looks like: Settings in Microsoft AZURE Logon to the AZURE Management Portal. In the lower left-hand corner of the screen, click New....
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Back in March of 2017 we ran our annual MVPDays Community Roadshow and at the show my friend and fellow MVP Philip Elder @MPECSInc presented a session on Hyper-V Performance Bottlenecks. And out of this session he gave a wonderful talk on how he uses Mellanox Technologies and RoCE for all of his Storage Spaces Direct builds. Now interestingly enough the parts to build your very own Storage Spaces Direct core network can be very cost effective. I checked online and the MSX1012X-2BRS 12 Port QSFP+ model runs for around 2994 USD Street price. That isn’t bad when you...
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As many organizations are working feverishly to move off legacy technology. I do believe that Windows Server 2016 and it’s core services like IIS 10 are the right choice. Understanding the fundamental enhancements to your core Web Platform are key to this migration path. IIS 10 introduces new support for HTTP 2.0 and provides some great enhancements over HTTP 1.1. For example, from a performance standpoint HTTP 2.0 can multiplex sessions over a common connection. And that’s important when you think about common webpages that share common linked components (CSS, Linked Files, Graphics, etc). What HTTP 2.0 does is...
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Microsoft was ending support for the Windows server 2003 operating system on July 14, 2015, but still have some customer are using Windows server 2003 and need us to migrate them to windows server 2012 R2 or Windows server 2016.
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In today’s fast-paced world with technology changing rapidly, it’s a challenge to stay on top of everything new while mastering the fundamentals. This exciting event, now in it’s forth year, brings your favorite Microsoft leaders, engineers and industry experts together to educate, network, and share their expertise with you. Just this year, ASP.NET Core, SQL Server 2016, Visual Studio 2015, Windows 10 and SharePoint 2016 launched. The new release of Windows Server is on the horizon and open source is becoming the norm. The cloud is real and so is cloud scaling. Are you ready? Invest in your companies...
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From all of our amazing authors and team at MVPDays publishing we have done it again. From May 23-27,2017 you can get yourself a copy of each of our books we have released this year. You may be asking yourself why we do this??? The answer is so simple… Because we love to share with you the IT community. We recently had a chance to speak at #VeeamON 2017 the world’s largest availability Conference put on by Veeam Software. During our sessions, we gave away copies of our books and decided why not make them free once again for...
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Welcome to our Pre-Show from the amazing VeeamON Conference in New Orleans, LA. May 15-19, 2017. MVP Allan Rafuse and myself, MVP Dave Kawula chat about how to get involved in a technical conference and use social media like Twitter. We also have a discussion about the local sightseeing options in New Orleans and area. Because when you go to a conference it isn’t just about all the techie stuff. Get out there and get to know the locals. The VeeamON Conference is the world premier Availability conference and had a large Microsoft Presence at the event including: Mark...
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First of all, thank you to all of the 3000 + attendees of #VeeamON 2017. This year was a busy one for team Kawula as we presented 10 sessions. As promised here are some important links for you: GITHUB Repo https://www.github.com/dkawula You will find the Big Demo Scripts here Here are all the slide decks: Azure and Veeam the Best of Friends How to Setup your Storage Spaces Direct Lab in 20 Minutes or Less Earn your Black Belt in Hyper-V Performance Troubleshooting Everything you need to know about ReFS in 20 Minutes Top Tricks for Backing up Hyper-V...
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In the morning we listened to Michael White present on VAO and how it empowers businesses to maintain business continuity or at least speeds it up. If you’ve heard of VMware’s Site Recovery Manager (SRM) Product, well you’ve got a great handle on how it works.
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Can’t make it down to the amazing venue in New Orleans, LA… Not to fear #VeeamON is available via LiveStream. Click below to add a reminder to your calendar to tune in LIVE for the VeeamON 2017 general sessions. Don’t miss out! Be a part of the experience! May 17 sessions reminder May 18 sessions reminder You can click the links above for some calendar reminders or just go to https://www.veeam.com/veeamon Happy Learning,...
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Almost all of ISP block TCP port 25 for some reasons, if You would like to build your own exchange server but you don’t want to pay extra money for static IP address or ISP business account, here is some tips you can easy to build your own exchange server.
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If you haven’t gotten your tickets and cannot be a part of #VeeamON this year, all is not lost! We here at http://Checkyourlogs.net will have you covered. If you’ve been following us or go look back at the #MVPHour posts, you’ll see that we have arrived here early. We are continuing to blog, tweet (@AllanRafuse) and are currently setting up our Live Stream system!
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Today, I tried to troubleshooting windows 2016 mysterious shutdown for my client, I found it was NT Authority\System that shutdown the system because the windows 2016 server license was expired, this is easy enough to solve the issues, I thought.
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Allan Rafuse
Cary Sun
Cristal Kawula
Dave Kawula
Émile Cabot
