Microsoft System Center 2012 / Private Cloud Event Commentary
As Microsoft announced their strategy on Private cloud and the upcoming roll-out of System Center 2012 this morning, I’ve been exchanging messages with our clients on some of the key points (thanks to those of you TEXTING me while I was online live...), wanted to summarize some of the discussions and the questions (and my answers) to the queries going on this morning. Read more
Exchange Outlook Calendaring Problems (lost meetings, delegate problems, etc)
Its been over a year since I originally blogged this problem with Microsoft Exchange and Outlook, and the problem has expanded even greater, and thus an updated blog post here. The problem has to do with organizations having calendar appointments and meeting requests “disappear”, get corrupt, meeting delegates (boss/assistant) having challenges with appointments showing up, disappearing, reappearing, etc. Read more
Doing e-Discovery / Message Retention / Legal Recovery in Exchange 2010 - Office 365
The topic has come up many times recently on how organizations can leverage Microsoft Exchange 2010 (on-premise) or Microsoft Office 365 (in the cloud) to retain messages, legally hold and recover messages, and successfully perform eDiscovery tasks as required by legal counsel, by law, and/or as needed.
This document clarifies what’s included “in the box” in Exchange 2010 and Office 365, and goes through the step by step procedures for setting up what is necessary to retain content and detailed procedures on how to query and look up information. Read more
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 6 – The Winners Are…
This afternoon, we announced the winners of the Imagine Cup 2011 competition. It’s hard to actually “name” a winner, because ALL of the students have worked extremely hard for the past year, have risen through the ranks of pre-qualifying rounds, and are the best of the best in their country doing incredible things.
But the competition does recognize the top scores, and this year, for the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge that I lead. A quick video that led up to the awards: Read more
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 5 – IT Challenge 24-hour Competition is Complete!
The 2011 IT Challenge competition started 9 months ago, through challenging qualifying rounds, to the final 24-hour non-stop competition. The top 6 finalists have worked extremely hard to get here, and they have ALL done a GREAT job in making it through to the finish! Read more
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 4 – Midway Thru the IT Challenge…
Our IT Challenge competition is now 18+ hours into the 24 hour period and the competitors are still going really strong! They’ve likely been up for over 20 hours and still have a good 8-9 hours to go to make it thru the rest of the competition period and judging…
Few things that have happened here in the past dozen or so hours… Read more
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 3 – Competition Begins!!!
Today is COMPETITION Day here in New York City for the kick-off of the Imagine Cup 2011 IT Challenge! All of the competitors met at 8am this morning for an overall competition briefing…
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 2 – Opening Ceremony!!!
We officially kicked off the Imagine Cup 2011 competition here in New York today with the Opening Ceremony keynote by Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer himself presiding over the ceremonies!
Earlier today, Steve was on CNN and interviewed about the Imagine Cup competition: http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/bestoftv/2011/07/08/exp.am.imagine.cup.microsoft.cnn Read more
Imagine Cup 2011 (NYC) - Post 1 - Setup Day
I just arrived into New York City for the Microsoft Imagine Cup worldwide competition finals in my 6th year as the IT Challenge competition head judge! This year’s competition started with over 100,000 students from over 83 countries participating in various technology competitions (software design, IT, digital media, embedded design, Win7 phone) through a series of qualifying rounds ultimately leading to the top 400 in the world to face off with the best of the best from around the globe at the worldwide finals! Read more
Scrollbars Missing on iPad 2 in SharePoint (problem solved!)
Submitted by Rand Morimoto on Wed, 06/08/11 - 11:42pm.I was just asked how one can scroll around on a Webpage in SharePoint using an Apple iPad 2? The problem is that when you go to a SharePoint site that is optimized for a screen size greater than what the iPad screen provides, or if the document library or whatever is just long and you want to "scroll down" to the rest of the content in the library (or list), Safari on the iPad doesn't give you the scrollbars on the side of the screen to scroll around. Read more
Apple Mac Fundamentals for a Windows Administrator
As more and more Macs show up in Corporate environments, the need for traditional Windows Administrators to be familiar with the Mac Operating system becomes more and more of a need. Next week (May 10th and 11th, 2011), I will be running a couple free live workshops in the San Francisco Bay Area titled “Integrating Apple Macs, iPads, and iPhones into a Windows Active Directory, Exchange, SharePoint, Lync Environment”. Read more
Using PowerShell to Turn HyperV Guest Sessions On/Off/Save
These PowerShell Scripts help you turn on, turn off, and save guest sessions right from a script. This is extremely helpful when you are trying to turn on a series of guest sessions (possibly on a demo system, or if you have a DR site where you want to fire up a bunch of guest sessions all at once), or if you want to power down a bunch of sessions (or save a bunch of sessions) without having to go to each one of them and manually "shutdown" or save the sessions. Read more
Planning Your Cutover to IPv6 for your Microsoft Windows Environment
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover what we’ve found to be a well organized and managed process of getting from an IPv4 environment to an IPv6 environment, effectively putting the chicken and the egg in the right sequence… Read more
Best Practices at Configuring Applications for IPv6 in a Microsoft Windows Environment
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
Configuring IPv6 Routing through IPv4 in a Microsoft Windows Environment
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
Configuring Microsoft Active Directory to Support IPv6
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover Active Directory support for IPv6. Read more
Setting up DHCPv6 to Dynamically Issue IPv6 Addresses in a Network
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
How to setup DHCP for IPv6 to dynamically issue addresses in your block of IPv6 addresses
IPv6 Static Addressing and DNSv6
In this blog post on IPv6, I’m going to cover: Read more
IPv6 Addressing, Subnets, Private Addresses
In this blog post, I’m going to cover: Read more
Getting Serious with IPv6 in a Windows Networking Environment
This past week, the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) that issues IP addresses issued the last 5 blocks of public IP addresses, thus starting a firestorm of news stories on the Internet that IPv6 is the next Y2K. As one of the twelve Y2K Advisors to the White House under President Clinton, I figured I’m compelled to write an article on IPv6, so here goes… (oh, and by the way, my stance on Y2K was that planes weren’t going to fall out of the sky and the world wasn’t going to come to an end at the stroke of midnight on January 1, 2000. Read more
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Rand Morimoto has been in the computer industry for more than 30 years and has authored, co-authored, or been a contributing writer for a couple dozen books on Microsoft Windows, Security, Exchange email, BizTalk Server, and remote and mobile computing. Rand is the president of Convergent Computing, an IT consulting firm that has been one of the key early adopter program partners with Microsoft, implementing beta versions of Microsoft technologies 2-3 years before the product releases to the public. This provides Rand and the consultants in his company extensive knowledge on the technologies long before the products are generally available.
Besides speaking at more than 50 conferences and conventions around the world in the past year on tips, tricks, and best practices on planning, migrating, and implementing technologies, Rand is also head judge for the worldwide Imagine Cup competition, is a Board member for the Chabot Space and Science Center and planetarium, and a Regent for the Board of Saint Mary's College of California.
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