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2013

Utilizing Add-ADUser & Import-CSV Powershell Cmdlets to bulk create Active Directory accounts
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We’ve all been there…your company has just taken over or brought out another company and you have been given a list of new employees to receive network accounts or another example (and my reality) it is the start of a school year and you have a herd of new year 7 students that need network accounts.
2012 in review, K-Pop edition Part 2
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The men have been listed, ordered and critiqued, now let’s get on to part 2 of my 2012, K-Pop year in review.
2012 in review, K-Pop edition Part 1
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2012 was a pretty big year for K-Pop, we saw solid entries from staple groups like BIG BANG, SHINee and miss A, successful debuts from EXO-K/M, B.

2012

Enforce Live Migration over specific network
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So you have a Hyper V 08 R2 (or maybe 2012) Cluster with a couple of nodes and it is all going rather well.
Migrated your mailbox to Exchange 2010, ActiveSync connection stopped? You might be a Domain Administrator
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Came across an interesting little bug which probably would have gone unnoticed if I never migrated my mailbox to our new Exchange 2010 mail server.
8 days with Windows 8
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No doubt you are aware that Microsoft’s latest operating system for PCs (and now ARM powered tablets, hybrids etc…) has been released to the world with varying reviews.
Windows 8 Release and special pricing
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The day has come and Microsoft has released Windows 8 to great fanfare as you can see below:
Exchange 2010 and "The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed"
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On Friday while I was preparing our new Exchange 2010 VM for coexistance with our current Exchange 2007 physical box (more on that later) I ran into a annoying snag.
Make time to set (NTP) time
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Any any Windows domain environment one of the most overlooked but ultimately crippling when things are wrong component is time.
VM migration from Server 2008 R2 to Server 2012
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There will certainly be a few people out there who are either doing it already or investigating upgrading their Virtual Machine host from 2008 R2 with Hyper V (or Hyper V Server R2) to Server 2012 with Hyper V (or Hyper V Server 2012).