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Restore Organization Management Role Back to Default Settings

I had a client who, while was working to better lock down and delegate Exchange administrative access, accidentally changed the write scope for the Organization Management Role.  The change was not...

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One Does Not Simply Upload a VM to Azure

Ok, Adam convinced me that I should share my experience uploading a VM to Azure.   I ran into a provisioning delay at a client when trying to test some remote virtual desktop. Rather than let a 2 week...

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An Unexpected Error Has Occurred

I was at a client with several semi-autonomous divisions and was working on enabling Free/Busy sharing between the Exchange installations at these divisions and Office 365 in preparation for their...

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Office 365 ADFS Certificate Expiration

I have been seeing this warning every time I log into the Microsoft Online Portal for the past couple of weeks: Naturally, I ignored it. I followed Joe’s advice and installed the Microsoft Office 365...

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Exchange 2010 Health Check Documentation Script

Part of our jobs as consultants is to assess the health of an environment and make recommendations for service improvement. Microsoft has some great tools like the Best Practice Analyzer and the Remote...

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Change AD Account UPN to Match Primary SMTP Address for Office 365 Migration

I change the User Principal Name on the accounts I migrate to Office 365 to match the primary SMTP address for two main reasons: Office 365 requires that users have a valid, internet routable User...

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DirSync Error Resolution Part 1 – Example Environment

While leading a migration to Office 365 at a large national client I had to resolve hundreds of directory synchronization errors. Almost all of these errors resulted from a few common issues repeated...

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DirSync Error Resolution Part 2 – Duplicate Values

The most common type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with duplicate values. Using some of the error messages sent in the Directory Synchronization error report...

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DirSync Error Resolution Part 3 – Invalid User Principal Name

The next type of DirSync errors generated by the organization in Part 1 were objects with invalid User Principal Names. Using some of the error messages sent in the Directory Synchronization error...

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect Study Guide – Introduction

Hybrid ArchitectureThe Amazon Web Services Certified Solutions Architect Professional certification is the Professional level cert beyond the CSA Associate exam.  AWS currently offers two Pro level...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – High Availability and Business Continuity

 Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to architect the appropriate level of availability based on stakeholder requirements Demonstrate ability to implement DR for systems based...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Costing

Percent of Exam 5% It may only count for 5%, but it seemed like every question had a cost consideration in the solution. Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to make architectural decisions that...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Deployment Management

Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Ability to manage the lifecycle of an application on AWS Demonstrate ability to implement the right architecture for development, testing, and staging...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Data Storage

Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving storage options Demonstrate ability to make architectural trade off decisions involving...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Network Design

Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate ability to design and implement networking features of AWS Demonstrate ability to design and implement connectivity features of AWS   AWS Services...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Security

Percent of Exam 20% Domain Focus Areas Design information security management systems and compliance controls Design security controls with the AWS shared responsibility model and global...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Scalability and Elasticity

Percent of Exam 15% Domain Focus Areas Demonstrate the ability to design a loosely coupled system Demonstrate ability to implement the most appropriate front-end scaling architecture Demonstrate...

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AWS CSA Pro Study Guide – Cloud Migration and Hybrid Architecture

Percent of Exam 10% Domain Focus Areas Plan and execute for applications migrations Demonstrate ability to design hybrid cloud architectures   AWS Services VMWare Integration Storage Gateway Data...

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