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A client migrated themselves to Office 365 from an existing on-premise Exchange at the weekend and called us as they were having problems configuring Outlook 2013.  Everytime they set it up it would auto-discover the existing Exchange server and not…

Okay, I admit, most people aren't going to be interested but... http://blogs.technet.com/b/building_clouds/archive/2013/02/21/surface-pro-hijinks-video.aspx "Question: What ridiculous things can 4 server geeks do with a sub-2lb tablet that has a Core i5 processor and a couple of free hours? Answer: Install Server 2012,…

We recently migrated a client from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 and had to deal with over 200 PST files scattered around the network from various archives and ex-employees.  Now that we aren't limited to the 75GB store size we…

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 (SP3) has been released "Windows Server 2012 Support - This Service Pack enables you to deploy Exchange Server 2010 on WIndows Server 2012 platform." We love Windows 2012, but up until now we haven't…

We've played with Multipoint Server before and know it to be a great product that reduces classroom costs and improves the student experience, well WMS 2012 has been released and it has got even better http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_in_education/archive/2013/02/08/windows-multipoint-server-in-the-classroom.aspx

We're expanding our IT team and we're looking for a couple of people. You are expected to install, enhance, configure and support the network infrastructures offered by Focused IT to its customers, these mainly comprise of Microsoft Windows Server based…

"Convert-WindowsImage is the new version of WIM2VHD designed specifically for Windows 8. Completely rewritten in PowerShell, this command-line tool allows you to rapidly create sysprepped VHD and VHDX images from setup media for Windows 7/Server 2008 R2 and Windows 8/Server…

When supporting a number of small businesses, it is quite useful to connect a local vCenter server to manage clients’ remote ESXi hosts.  Setting this up for the first time can be frustrating, however, with the documentation being so comprehensive,…