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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.
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    Two Factor Authentication for Remote Desktop Services

    There is a fair amount of information out there about how to accept two factor authentication (2FA) for connecting to Remote Desktop Web Access (RDWA), but this leaves out the truly important connection to the RD Gateway (RDGW).  About a year ago Freek Berson, an MVP in RDS wrote a blog post that addresses this very…

    Concurrency
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    Offline Address Book Fails to Download in Exchange 2010

    I ran into an interesting issue where the Exchange 2010 OAB failed to download to Outlook 2010, 2007, and 2003 clients.  This started after configuring Outlook Web Access redirection using the IIS HTTP redirect capability (sending “/” to “/OWA”).  In testing the issue, I attempted to browse to the OAB xml file manually through my web browser. …

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Powershell is not digitally signed: Set-ExecutionPolicy

    If you have tried to run a PowerShell script that isn’t signed, you’ve likely run into the security error “File … cannot be loaded.  The file is not digitally signed.  The script will not be executed on the system. “  This means that the script is not trusted to be run on your system. If you’d like to sign…

    Nathan Lasnoski
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    Lync Traffic Flow Diagrams / Lync Workloads and Ports

    n working with Lync, especially enterprise topologies, one of the most valuable skills is the ability to understand the flow of traffic within the infrastructure.  In Lync, there is an extensive number of ports used for various application services.  I’ve found that if I understand the flow of traffic, I can quickly diagnose a problem…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    DHCP Filtering

    Windows Server 2008 R2 includes the ability to explicitly Allow or Deny DHCP requests to defined MAC addresses.  This allows you to prevent unknown devices from obtaining DHCP access to the network by creating a Block List and/or and Allow list. You can read more about it in the DHCP Team Blog site. Enable filtering Open…

    Concurrency, Inc.
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    Azure AppFabric Overview

    Microsoft’s Azure Services Platform is a “platform as a service” which provides the base of delivering a variety of hosted services, such as web applications, SQL, virtual machines, and other services.  In this post we’ll be discussing Azure AppFabric, in an attempt to provide clarity to its intention and use. What is Azure AppFabric? Azure AppFabric…

    Nathan Lasnoski