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To the cloud. To most IT people that are not in sales or a cloud focused company that saying is a bad joke. For most of...
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I’ve worked with Citrix Xenapp for years going back to the metaframe days. I’ve also tested Xendesktop and Vmware view a few different times, but I...
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This presentation was done at?TechEd New Zealand 2014. Its a great presentation on what you can do with powershell and is a great primer to get...
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I was looking for a way to get the size of our online archive mailboxes, but our primary mailboxes are on prem in a hybrid configuration....
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As an IT professional I’m always using RDP to access the servers. I’m using windows 8 and have pinned the RDP client to my taskbar and...
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I love notepad++ its a great text and script editor (other than powershell I still like ISE better) I needed to comment out a bunch of...
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Warning…this as turned into my notes more than a blog post. Hope the information is useful, but its not?cohesive 🙂 We are testing the waters of...
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