How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 8 – How to Install the first Management Server OpsMgr 2012

Introduction In this document we will install the First OpsMgr 2012 SP1 on MTLMS01 Server Installation Install the First OpsMgr 2012 SP1 Now you are ready to install the first Management Server on server MTLMS01. We will not now install the web console on the server, because we want secure communication with SSL. A certificate must be installed on IIS before to be able to install the Web Console in SSL. We will install later in this series · Open a session on MTLMS01 Server with the OmAdmin user · Double click on Setup to start the Installation · Click … Continue reading How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 8 – How to Install the first Management Server OpsMgr 2012

How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 7 – How to validate the communication between OpsMgr 2012 SP1 and the SQL Servers

Introduction In this document we will validate that from MTLMS01 and MTLMS02 you communicate with both SQL Servers. It is very important that the user OMAdmin can be connect with both SQL servers because OMAdmin will create the Database OperationsManager and the OperationsManagerDW Database during the installation.We will use ODBC Data Access Source to validate if the user can have access to both SQL servers Validate the communication with SQL Servers Validate that the OMAdmin User can connect to the MTLSQL01 Server from Server MTLMS01 Open a session on MTLMS01 with OMAdmin user Click Start Click Administrative Tools Click Data … Continue reading How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 7 – How to validate the communication between OpsMgr 2012 SP1 and the SQL Servers

Virtual Launch Event for the new Office 365 for business.

When? Wednesday, February 27th 8 am PDT and 5 pm PDT Why Attend? • Learn how the new Office 365 can help people do their best work in a world of devices and services • Hear customers talk about how Office 365 is transforming the way they deliver productivity tools across their organization • See how Office 365 delivers new experiences combining the power of social with collaboration, email and unified communications • Join in a live Q&A with Microsoft executives and product experts Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

Hosting and Multi-Tenancy Guidance for Exchange Server 2013 Now Available

Hi folks (MVP Summit is over so it’s time to go back to work 🙂 ) Exchange Team has just released the Multi-Tenancy Guidance for Exchange Server 2013, good stuff and there is a couple of new stuff to help the ABP segmentation. We are pleased to be able to announce the oft-requested Hosting and Multi-Tenancy Guidance for Exchange Server 2013 document. It is available for download here. As the keen eyed reader will observe, it is very similar to the guidance for Exchange Server 2010. That’s not because all we did was a find, copy and replace, but because … Continue reading Hosting and Multi-Tenancy Guidance for Exchange Server 2013 Now Available

How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 6 – How to Install Prerequisites for OpsMgr 2012 SP1

Introduction In this document you will install all prerequisites for OpsMgr 2012 SP1for both management Server MTLMS01 and MTLMS02 Add the OMAdmins Group in the Administrators Local group of all MS Servers and SQL Servers Install IIS Install Report Viewer Install Prerequisites on the MTLMS01 Server Add OMAdmins group in the Adminitrators Local group · Open a session on MTLMS01 with OMAdmin user · Pin the Computer management · Click Computer Management · Expand Local Users and Groups · Open Administrators Local Group · Add the Omadmins Group in the Administrators Local group if it is not present · Close … Continue reading How to Deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 SP1 – Part 6 – How to Install Prerequisites for OpsMgr 2012 SP1

Using Send Items feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP3

Good morning folks (Great morning for me, my Surface Pro 128GB arrived!) In Today’s post we are going over the new feature introduced in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 which is the Send Items that can be found on the Options using OWA. If we click on Options and then See All Options on the main page. After that, click on Settings and then Sent Items. Here is the new feature works, basically you can decide that if someone uses the Send As or Send on behalf feature using your mailbox you can decide how the message sent will … Continue reading Using Send Items feature of Exchange Server 2010 SP3

Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Hi There (I’m so excited Exchange 2010 SP3 testing and also Champions League games Today!) Yesterday the Exchange Team released the Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3 and in this post we are going over the process to upgrade an existent Exchange Server 2010 with the new SP3. Before going there a few key points about this upgrade: Please read the Release Notes: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj965774%28v=exchg.141%29.aspx Exchange Server 2010 can be installed on top of Windows Server 2012. Just to make sure that we are on the same page, you need to run this SP3 on brand new Windows Server 2012 in … Continue reading Deploying Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 helps you achieve new levels of reliability and performance by delivering features that help to simplify your administration, protect your communications, and delight your customers by meeting their demands for greater business mobility Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/02/12/released-exchange-server-2010-sp3.aspx Download it from there: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=36768 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

How to deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 Sp1 – Part 4 – How to Install SQL 2012 Server for Operation Manager Database

Introduction In this document we will Install SQL 2012 for Operations Manager database. This Database is the Short term Database. The long Term Database is the Data Warehouse Database, this Database can be Installed on the same server than the Operation Management Database, but in the Series you will install the data warehouse Database on an another Server MTLRS01 Installation How to Install SQL Server 2012 Setup is fairly straightforward. This document will not go into details and best practices for SQL configuration. Consult your DBA team to ensure your SQL deployment is configured for best practices according to your … Continue reading How to deploy and configure OpsMgr 2012 Sp1 – Part 4 – How to Install SQL 2012 Server for Operation Manager Database

How to remove a DAG member in Exchange Server 2013

Bonjour mes amis (What a nice snow day here in Toronto, eh? We got around 25cm of snow in some areas including my way to the subway this morning ) In Today’s post we are going over the process to remove a DAG member when they have a regular database copy previously configured on Exchange Server 2013. You may want to do this procedure as part of your maintenance tasks, decommission of a server or in some cases when you want to move Database and Log files of a DB in a DAG. The first step after identifying the server … Continue reading How to remove a DAG member in Exchange Server 2013