Reply To: SharePoint 2013 Adventure
Well past kicking the tires now. Working on moving the SOPA application to full blown SP Server 2013. I have a client running on SOPA on Foundation but not the full server with Excel services et al....
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SOPA stands for Sales Order Process Application. Tracking dealer equipment sales orders from inception to payment. This has gone through 3 iterations of version 1. Now to move on to version 2.
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Collecting customer signatures from the field and sending to your SharePoint archive for workflow triggering. Expediting D&A, Leases, etc. Learn how!
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The last activity now is to get the anti-spam filtering configured. The fact that this all must be done from powershell is a real pain. Tweaking the settings is much more laborious now. I finally shut...
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Server 2012 continues to impress. Performance is very good. Now that 2012 R2 is around the corner we’ll need to start working with that. Unlike past releases Microsoft is not providing access to...
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Windows 8.1 is due in October. Saddened that Microsoft is not providing early access to new OS for partners.
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Just finished upgrading the Untangle server to version 10. After working out the issue with IPv6 DCHP on the FiOS connection (Comcast worked fine) the new server is up and running. Because V10 is so...
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Installed the latest version of PDF ShareForms for a client this weekend. I think this has resolved the issue of not seeing the background image in the forms designer. This was a real pain when laying...
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So my journey in the cloud continues to expand. As a Microsoft partner I am entitled to a credit monthly for Azure space. I finally decided to take advantage of it and have begun building out a...
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After about 8 months on Exchange 2013 I cannot say I am overly enthusiastic about it. Quite frankly it has been a lot more work to administer than 201 was. Many things you could do through the EMC are...
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Created my first Windows Server 2012 R2 last night. I am going to begin testing System Center 2012 EndPoint Protection and Data Protection Manager. I started with a basic install of Server 2012 R2 on...
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Reply To: Tablets and SharePoint
Santa (otherwise known as my lovely wife) gave me an iPad mini fro Xmas. I will admit that I have been less than enthusiastic when it came to smaller sized tablets. My son has a Nexus 7 from last year...
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Final testing of Service Call Reports from eAutomate on field technician iPads. All is going very well. Once completed my client will be arming all their techs with iPads to complete the SCRs. The...
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Spam – the scourge of Exchange administrators existence. Mine is no different. Whether it is a client or my own email spam never ends. Last weekend I may have won a huge battle. I found a no-charge...
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Getting some duplicate message delivery from mail marked for restore from the possible spam” category. Looking into it.
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TCP Port Blocking Problem Finally resolved an issue with a client’s cloud backup that had stopped running the service that provides their contribution to a global shared storage network. After over...
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Added a 2012 R2 server DC to a 2003 functional level domain. After running a system state backup (fore warned is fore armed) it was discovered that the SBS 2003 Server was running at a 2000 functional...
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Discovered a new app which puts a nice template on a 2010/2013 site for Intranet. Lots of functionality and built in branding capability. Still testing it out on a trial basis but promising so far....
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Joining a 2012 or 2012R2 server to a 2003 AD domain may seem simple but there are several issues that arose during a couple of projects introducing new servers to clients who had existing 2003...
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If you ever need to export exchange 2013 mailboxes filtering by specific content remember to surround the filtering text with * to insure you get all the content you should. For example if I am...
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