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,…
We love Windows Server 2012 and all the new features, SMB3, Hyper-V Replication, NIC Teaming but....There is one feature I'm sorry to see disappear and that's the ability to 'Remote Control' or 'Shadow' another session on a Remote Desktop Session…
Another great feature of Windows Server 2012 is Virtual Domain Controller Cloning, it doesn't quite solve all our needs as there are still restrictions on having PDCs around, which is understandable: Requirements There are a few base infrastructure requirements to…
We've been very hectic over the past couple of months on various projects, one of which was a deployment of Microsoft Windows MultiPoint Server 2011 for Helvetia House School. Windows MultiPoint Server is aimed directly at the classroom, with the…