Exchange 2013 CU15 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU15 Released”
Today heralded the arrival of Rollup Update Rollup 16 (RU16) for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU16 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. All updates are delivered via a RU for Exchange 2010 and 2007. Exchange 2013 and 2016 have a different release model, where security updates are decoupled from the standard cumulative updates.
To update Exchange 2007… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU16 Released”
Exchange 2016 CU4 has been released to the Microsoft download centre! Exchange 2016 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously. CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU4 Released”
The below is a repro of a customer issue where they were unable to RDP to an Azure RM VM from the Internet. Previously this was not something they had setup as connecting to VMs was provided by a site to site VPN. There was no requirement to provide RDP access from the Internet, until they wanted to allow connectivity from one specific business partner to some VMs. The partner is not part of th… Read the rest “Azure RM VM Connect Button Greyed Out”
As mentioned in this blog's previous posts on deploying AD FS, one option is to deploy all or part of the AD FS solution in Azure. This is very valuable if there is insufficient capacity on-premises or if you only have a single datacentre and wish to increase resiliency.
Deploying the AD FS solution or connecting it to Azure is pretty straight forward. However, if you not correctly plan the Azure… Read the rest “Load Balancing AD FS Services In Azure RM”
One of the added features in AD FS 2012 R2 was the ability to leverage group managed service accounts (gMSA) which obviated the requirement to manually change the password associated with the service account. See Getting Started with Group Managed Service Accounts for some background on gMSA. You may also see the term sMSA which is a standalone managed service account.
Managed service accounts and … Read the rest “Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password”
New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. Take our venerable friend, netstat! Even though it has been around for many moons folks often get into the habit of using only certain options, switches or parameters. For reference purposes, the Windows XP Netstat options are doc… Read the rest “New Netstat Options”
Like many other customers, the Tailspintoys Canada organization are leveraging Azure as part of their IT solution, and have done so for years. Because of this they have Azure resources in the old Azure model, and wish to transition to the new deployment methodology. In short they need to move from Azure Service Manager to the new Azure Resource Manager.
Azure Service Manager (SM) is also called C… Read the rest “Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager”
For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.
Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:
This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.
For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”
This is a follow-up to the initial post on the topic which was based on the original Azure Service Manager (Azure SM) model. Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM) changes the deployment methodology. Take a look at Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources for more details. We will take a brief look at the relationship of the networking… Read the rest “How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”