Winter is ALREADY over in Jan?

It's 1/27/12 and winter is OVER for Houston!!?? How great to start a new year!

http://blog.chron.com/sciguy/2012/01/is-winter-over/

To Exchange Online or Not

Planning

• Exchange Hybrid Deployment and Migration with Office 365


• MS Exchange Online Services


• Hybrid




• What's Exchange Hybrid?

Education 

• For Online Administrator


• Licensing




• Do I need to purchase a license for the Exchange 2010 hybrid server on prem?
  No, if you have a production tenant for Exchange Online you can request a hybrid server product key via Online Support to license the hybrid server. Read more here. (Exchange Online Licensing: http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/en-us/licensing-exchange-online-email.aspx)

 

Simple backup script for SQL Express

in backup.bat

"C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Binn\sqlcmd.exe" -S (local)\TOCTTARGPPC05 -i "C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator\Desktop\backup.sql"

In backup.sql

BACKUP DATABASE [ETLSPA] TO DISK = N'\\mbbk\backup_to_folder\mbppc\mbppc.bak' WITH RETAINDAYS = 5, NOFORMAT, INIT, NAME = N'ETLSPA-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD, STATS = 10
GO

 

 

Install PPC on Citrix server where C is not the root drive

The root drive is Y on Citrix. Updating PPC from web or admin install will fail because there's no valid path for the installer.

Workaround:

1. Map a temp C drive


2. Run PPCWebMultiSelect.exe from Y:\program files\Common Files\PPC\PPCWebMultiSelectInstaller\

GPO

Symptom: unable to R-click in Windows Explorer on Terminal server.
Solution:

• User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Start Menu and Taskbar


• User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer


• User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Internet Explorer | Browser Menus