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    Turn Off or Disable Active Directory Federation Services in Office 365

    There are two primary reasons to turn off AD FS in Office 365.  The first is because you want to use a new AD FS farm, possibly because your standalone AD FS server is not sufficient anymore.  You cannot transfer SSO responsibilities between two different farms in Office 365; first you have to turn SSO…

    Concurrency
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    Attach a virtual hard disk (VHD) from external USB storage in Windows 8 Hyper-V

    Attach a virtual hard disk (VHD) from external USB storage in Windows 8 Hyper-V You should now be able to create a VM and attach a VHD file from an external USB storage device without receiving the permission error.

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Manually Clearing Orchestrator Logs

    I was working on an implementation of Service Manager and Orchestrator where I was running a significant number of runbooks on a regular basis.  This eventually ended up creating logs for over 200,000 runbook executions.  What I noticed was that the nightly log purge job was not running correctly.  It was failing after several hours…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Seeing Red in Server Manager 2012?

    Does the Server Manager console in Windows Server 2012 always seem to show your Roles and Servers Groups in Red due to “Manageability” errors that say “Online – Cannot get BPA results” ? This seems to be a pretty common situation simply because the “Best Practice Analyzer” (BPA) scan has not been performed, and it…

    Concurrency
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    Smart Sizing Exposed in Remote Desktop UI, at last!

    One of the coolest “little secret” features that has been in Windows since XP has been the ability for the RDP client to “smart size” or Scale the contents of the Remote Desktop to fit the boundary of the window as you drag the boarders around.  The problem is that there was no exposure in…

    Concurrency
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    RDS8 – Quick and Easy, RemoteApp on Windows Server 2012

    Read more Step-by-Step Guides on Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012. I’ll show you how you can set up RemoteApp publishing using a single server in less time than it takes to watch an episode of your favorite drama! Honestly, you should be able to hammer this out in less than an hour if you…

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    Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012, Step-by-Step Guides

    Remote Desktop Services in Windows Server 2012 is awesome.  With highlights like huge performance improvements and an incredibly simplified deployment process, you’re going to want to see what this can do for your business and you can, for free!  Microsoft has the Windows Server 2012 Release Candidate available which you can download and install today. I’ll show you how you can…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Publishing Data from a .Net Script Activity in Orchestrator

    When you are using the .Net Script activity in orchestrator you may be pulling in data that you would like to publish so that you can use it in the next activities. To do this first open your .Net Script activity in Orchestrator. In the example below I want to pass on the $department value…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Creating and Using Schedules in Orchestrator

    Schedules are important in Orchestrator the give you the ability to start you Runbooks at specific dates and times. The first thing you need to do to create your schedule is open up Runbook designer. Open the global settings folder on the left-hand navigation then right click on the schedules folder and select new > schedule. On the General…

    Concurrency, Inc.