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Renaming a UPN to another federated domain
Marcus Hass
During an ongoing Office 365 deployment, we identified an issue with Office 365 customers not being able to change a user’s UPN if both UPN’s are in federated domains. We have identified and validated a work-around, please see the guidance below. Thanks...(read more) [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 27th '11 |
Office 365 Due Diligence and Beyond
Marcus Hass
With Office 365’s imminent release, I have moved out of services after 11 years to be part of the Office Product team’s Deployment Solution’s Group. Our group focuses on ensuring that our partners and customers understand all the intricacies of...(read more) [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 22nd '11 |
Exchange 2010 puts TargetAddress in ProxyAddresses?!
Marcus Hass
pMMT is the BPOS-D migration tool and it uses Exchange 2010rsquo;s built in move service called MRS (Mailbox Replication Service).nbsp; MMT, through MRS, analyzes the mailbox, enforces any customer migration rules (such as ignore calendar items older than 2 months), moves the contents of the mailbox, validates the contents, strips mailbox attributes on the customer side, and then adds a target address on the customer side so that email is forwarded to BPOS.nbsp; At the end of the move, MRS fires [read].
Posted: Wed, Jul 28th '10 |
Autodiscover using TargetAddress
Marcus Hass
pI ran into a pretty unique problem this week migrating to Exchange 2010, but as it becomes more popular many people will start to run into autodiscover issues if all their clients are Outlook 2007/2010.#160; Autodiscover was a feature that started with Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2007 but us carried on through our newer versions of Office and Exchange.#160; Autodiscover uses a combination of#160; Service Connection Points (SCP) and DNS to try and find your mailbox for you, a href="http://technet. [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 16th '10 |
I’m back, just have my head in the clouds
Marcus Hass
pOver the last year, I have shifted my focus to “The Cloud”.#160; It started in January 2009 when I was asked to run an Architectural Design Session for a large company in Northern California.#160; My part of the session was about domain consolidation and infrastructure optimization.#160; The more exciting part of the session was done by one of our BPOS Solution Architects, and was a proposal to move the customer to BPOS.#160; I was hooked on BPOS as soon as I heard the pitch, having helped [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 2nd '10 |
Microsoft Online and SBS 2003
Marcus Hass
I have been working with the Microsoft BPOS aka Microsoft Online guys in Enterprise accounts for a while to help big companies migrate to BPOS dedicated. Don’t know what that is? Check out www.microsoftonline.com. To sum it up, it is hosted Exchange, SharePoint, OCS, LiveMeeting, and a few other offerings. For bigger businesses, Microsoft sets up dedicated hosting servers, for small it is multitenant.
I help out a small company from time to time because they have 15 employees and a Small B [read].
Posted: Wed, Jun 3rd '09 |
Windows XP/XPe and Remote Desktop Services Single Sign On
Marcus Hass
This week I was working with a retail customer that has plans to place HP Windows XP Embedded devices at their many retail stores. Applications will be served up either locally on the XPe device, through a remote desktop, or through Remote Applications. There is a slight challenge with this setup because technically Microsoft supports this configuration, but doesn’t give you great tools to setup Single Sign On (SSO). When Vista was first introduced, Microsoft created a new credenti [read].
Posted: Thu, Apr 16th '09 |
On the bench with back problems
Marcus Hass
I had been working on a great project with the State of Minnesota (more on that in a future post), when on July 3rd my right leg stopped working. Well it worked, I just couldn't move it without screaming at the top of my lungs. I was in St. Paul, MN for most of that week and had some minor lower back pain, which started to creep down to my right leg during the week. I flew home Wednesday afternoon, and hung out with neighbors in the evening as the kids rode bikes, etc. I couldn't wal [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 4th '08 |
My iPhone 3G Review
Marcus Hass
Call me a traitor. Call me weak minded to the Apple Jedi mind trick. Yes I have a 3g iPhone, the cheapest one of course. My Treo 750, which I really liked, was starting to have some battery fade. In addition, I was using the IE browser on my Treo more frequently, with more and more contempt for IE on the phone. I had loaded an experimental browser on it a while back called Deepfish, and it was great (very similar to the abilities of Safari on the iPhone). But, Deepf [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 31st '08 |
New Role for Mhass
Marcus Hass
So I finally rolled off my last gig, which had occupied me for the last 18 months. In the last 18 months, I learned a lot about how my customer did business, and thanks to a great account team, learned how Microsoft does business. I liked the business aspect of the job a lot, enough to inspire me to move to a new team. I have moved onto the West Architecture team and will be working with customers throughout the Desert, Mountain, and SoCal parts of the US. It includes working w [read].
Posted: Tue, Apr 22nd '08 |
Automated install of Outlook Conferencing Addins
Marcus Hass
My customer (Mike Vrabel) and I got completely frustrated today in trying to find a way to deploy the Outlook Conferencing Addin for Live Meeting 2007 via SMS. The Office web site gives you a ConfAddins_Setup.exe which is neither an MSI or provides you switches for automated install or answer file.
Some digging turned up a solution:
1. Copy confAddins_Setup.exe to a local directory on your test PC2. Open a command prompt (if Vista make sure the command prompt is administrator elevated)3. Using [read].
Posted: Wed, Feb 13th '08 |
Sony is brilliant, PS3 may surpass Xbox 360 in the future
Marcus Hass
The reason has nothing to do with games. Pretty much, all games are available on all platforms.
The reason is Blue-ray. Is Blue-ray the best technology? No. Is it the cheapest? No. Is the PS3 a cheaper and better Blue-ray player than stand alone players? Yes. Not only is it the cheaper or the same price as stand alone players, but it is easily upgradeable as new Blue-ray standards come about.
The reason that Sony is brilliant is that they concentrated on incentives to the film distributor [read].
Posted: Mon, Feb 4th '08 |
CES: Tuesday
Marcus Hass
I got a chance to walk through most of the show today, my frackin' feet still hurt and my shoes have been off for a few hours. If you are still at CES, check out the Neonade booth, free massages. I don't know what they do, but I saw the massage chairs Dolby had a massive replica of Bumblebee the Transformer, I am going to get a picture tomorrow Oh, about pictures. The CES web site says Media cameras only. Not true. Everyone and their grandma has their digital cameras and camcorders out Vant [read].
Posted: Wed, Jan 9th '08 |
HD-DVD going the way of Beta Max?
Marcus Hass
It is starting to feel like HD-DVD has lost. With Transformers only available on HD-DVD, I thought there was a glimmer of hope, but I am pretty sure the fat lady is singing.
Why? Disney.
I think Disney was the camel that broke the straw back. It is really frustrating that I can't buy my kid's movies on HD-DVD since I only have an Xbox 360, and have to "waste" money in an older format. Buying a Blue Ray player is still not feasible, while HD-DVD players head towards $100.
I could care less ab [read].
Posted: Tue, Jan 8th '08 |
CES: Monday Afternoon
Marcus Hass
So, I am here at CES 2008, I got a last minute push to come out for some meetings. I don't plan on doing a blow by blow like Engadget, but I might post some cool stuff I see. I am not actually at the show yet as I have some meetings to attend after flying in just now (4:40 pm). So far the highlights have been: Seeing Wee-man from MTV notoriety at the Denver airport Listening to "The Rocket" secretly tape record his buddy that accused him of being injected with steroids, thank Frontier Airlines [read].
Posted: Mon, Jan 7th '08 |
Using Facebook for socializing at work
Marcus Hass
I have been reluctant to jump on MySpace, Twitter, etc because it seemed to be so personal focused. I honestly didn't have much I wanted to share with public or even friends that they weren't getting from me and my family directly.
There has been so much buzz about Facebook and it's ability to cater to both it's original college crowd as well as appealing to corporate users. To add to the buzz, there are the constant rumors of Microsoft investing in Facebook. I decided to try it out after some [read].
Posted: Mon, Oct 8th '07 |
SharePoint 3.0 WSP Deployment Scripts
Marcus Hass
I have been working with a customer over the last few weeks to come up with a mechanism that their Configuration Management (CM) team can use to deploy custom WSS code. Fortunately, WSS allows our developers to wrap up their code into a Solution (WSP files). The solution can have things like templates that go on the file system, web.config changes and features. Features are cool little things that can do things on WSS as well as have additional tasks on the server or file system, all defined [read].
Posted: Mon, Aug 20th '07 |
Transformers, go see it!
Marcus Hass
The red and blue cab of an 18 wheeler rolls into the center of the dark alley with led's and lights blazing, Autobot logo right on the grill. A bunch of spinning and servo sounds accompany the all too familiar whah-whah-whah-kuk sound of Transformer transformation. Everyone knows that it is Optimus Prime, but as soon as he stands up, the crowd erupts in cheers and wolf whistles. I get chills and get the tiniest bit emotional as I get to see a hero of my childhood, and get to see the look on [read].
Posted: Thu, Jul 5th '07 |
ATT Internet problems, too many iPhones?
Marcus Hass
My customer just contacted ATT because their on-call phone hasn't been picking up email today via it's data connection. ATT said they are having nationwide Internet problems, but didn't specify the cause. Anyone care to take a stab at the problem? My guess is that the surge of iPhone inter-tubbers that have never had a real browsers or Internet access has clogged everything up. My Treo 750 hasn't been able to sync except maybe once today. I can't imagine what havoc this is causing for busines [read].
Posted: Mon, Jul 2nd '07 |
iPhone and ActiveSync, a security concern
Marcus Hass
A couple days ago, Mary Jo speculated that Apple has licensed Microsoft's Active Sync technology which allows iPhone to securely sync with Exchange servers (over its smoke signal speed, EDGE data connection). Will ActiveSync be out of the box today or an upgrade in the future? Will it be the reported implementation on the iPhone to connect with Exchange via IMAP? (IMAP isn't really a concern for most Enterprises since the IMAP service is usually disabled)
I have no details about this deal, [read].
Posted: Fri, Jun 29th '07 |
3 months with the Treo 750
Marcus Hass
I know I come across as a whiner sometimes about gadgets, especially phones. It's just that I want one device that can do everything from making a phone call to opening my garage door to sending tri-corder data back to my starship in orbit.
The Treo 750 hasn't disappointed me, at all. I honestly can't think of the first thing to say about this phone, good or bad. It is so good, that I don't dwell on any bad things about it, yet there isn't a killer feature either. This is good! I don't alwa [read].
Posted: Mon, Jun 25th '07 |
Inside WSS 3.0
Marcus Hass
In a really weird coincidence today, I ran into a great book about WSS 3.0.
I have been busy hacking away at some old scripts that push around templates, etc on the file system for WSS and MOSS. The goal is to take a build from Team Foundation Server (TFS) and be able to deploy it to dev, test or production. I knew that WSS 3.0 allows you to deploy solutions using STSADM, so my famous old WSS 2.0 scripts could be truncated to just invoke stsadm on the different site collections.
I started pok [read].
Posted: Thu, Jun 21st '07 |
Wil Wheaton and the butterfly tree
Marcus Hass
I was just going through my feeds, and always save Wil Wheaton and Mark Cuban's blogs for last. Mark Cuban's is one I really enjoy, but takes a lot of concentration because of the topics he covers, and they sometimes get a bit long. Wil Wheaton has become my absolute favorite blogger, sorry Scoble. I am not sure why I connect with Wil's blog, other than I think he is a fantastic writer. He is about the same age as I am, so I can relate to his references to things in his childhood, except all [read].
Posted: Tue, May 1st '07 |
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