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    Netsh Packet Captures

    A common troubleshooting step is collecting a packet capture to see what’s happening at the network level.  Perhaps you’re trying to track down a port blocked by a firewall or a connection that just isn’t working right.  For this, many people would install Wireshark, Microsoft Network Monitoring (netmon), or Microsoft Message Analyzer.  However, Server 2008 R2 and…

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    8 Things to Know about OneDrive Files On-Demand

    Files On-Demand is a game changer for how you interact with your content within Office 365. Files On-Demand allows access to all of your files without using storage on your device. This means you can view all your files that you have synced without having them on your device. With this feature you don’t need…

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    Windows Defender vs. Windows Defender ATP

    Beyond turning on a firewall, the next basic steps to protecting a system are to activate anti-virus and anti-malware software. Windows now provides these functions built-in, in the form of the Windows Defender tool. (Users have the option of turning off Windows Defender and instead using third-party tools.)  Windows Defender provides classic, signature-based analysis on…

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    Striping Disks in Azure

    Sometimes when working with an Azure VM, you need to combine the size or throughput of multiple Azure disks.  You can do this by using Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 or 2016.  Storage Spaces is similar to RAID or the old dynamic disk technology in Windows and allows you to combine multiple disks into a…

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    Windows Server 2016 Hyper-V Replication without the need of an appliance.

    Hyper-V replication allow your environment to replicate from one virtual machine to another virtual machine environment without the need for additional cost of an appliance. Hyper-V Replication helps with both planned and unplanned fail over situations by having a fail over to protect the virtual machine. This feature is included in Windows Server 2012, 2012R2,…

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    Avoiding Duplicates with the D365 / CRM Outlook Add-On

    When using Outlook with CRM, users often find themselves with many duplicate contact records. These records will sync between CRM and Outlook if they satisfy the sync filter properties. There are a few ways a user can leverage the sync filters to only have the records desired, but planning and standards should be set to…

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    Windows 10 GPOs and more

    Here are a few links that I send to my customers who are starting to manage and tweak Windows 10.  Most of the items below are GPO related.  I also included how to modify the Start menu, and a nice script on GitHub that has many different settings that can be changed in Windows 10 (using PowerShell).…

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    Installing SQL Server on a Domain Controller: What You need to know

    When configuring your data environment and planning servers and installs, it is important to understand that Microsoft does not recommend that you install SQL Server on a Domain Controller.  While you technically CAN, there are some dangers involved that you should be aware of before you do this. Let’s take some in depth looks at…

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    Working with the K2 PDF control in SmartForms and workflow processes

    Recently I was approached by a client that was concerned about the length of time it would take for their K2 SmartForm to generate a PDF of their form which had multiple tabs and lots of controls. The Save as PDF feature available out of the box with K2 SmartForms is a nice feature, but also…

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