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In this Tutorial we are going over the process to create a Group Policy to be applied to user objects, and this policy will add the Federation Servers in the Local Intranet in Internet Explorer. There are several ways to configure Internet Explorer settings and we are going to use the registry to add the required information, this method it may seem a little bit complicated however it works with all versions of Internet Explorer and it doesn’t create issues with the existent information that the user may have added to his profile. Read more at source: http://andersonpatricio.ca/managing-federation-services-creating-a-gpo-to-support-adfs-single-sign-on/

In this Tutorial we are going over the process to import and export a certificate among servers using Exchange Admin Center (EAC) in Exchange Server 2013. Bear in mind that we can perform the same process using just native Windows Tools (we will cover this in another Tutorial) but the goal here is to use just Exchange Server 2013 built-in tools. More info: http://andersonpatricio.ca/how-to-move-a-certificate-among-servers-in-exchange-server-2013/

  Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

Hi folks, You may have noticed that I disappeared from Blog, Twitter, Forums and all that stuff for the last 2-3 weeks and that anomaly was cause by my holidays During my time out of the grid a couple of articles that I wrote a few months ago were published at MSExchange.org. One of the article series that was started was about PowerShell 101 for Messaging Administrators where I try to explain how to start building your own scripts and how to use the PowerShell. Automating Exchange Server 2010 Deployment PowerShell 101 for Messaging Administrator and IT Pros (Part 1) … Continue reading Back from Holidays.. time to get back to work

Hi folks, The MSExchange Team created a two article blog series about CAS Array object in Exchange Server 2010, as follows: Demystifying the CAS Array Object – Part 1 Demystifying the CAS Array Object – Part 2 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

Wanted to write a quick post about a tool that can help you find and catalogue various PowerShell scripts that are scattered on various online communities or – possibly – your internal company network shares. The tool is called Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell and has entered the public Beta 1 stage now. Download Microsoft Script Explorer for Windows PowerShell (pre-release) User guide Script Explorer Forum Read more at source: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/03/14/check-out-microsoft-script-explorer-for-windows-powershell-pre-release.aspx Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

Hi folks, Virtualization is a reality in the vast majority of the companies and in case you are using VMWare and you are trying to find a good reason to explain the change to your boss about the benefits of using Microsoft Virtualization, this post can be useful Microsoft released a document comparing VMWare vSphere 5 and Windows Server 2008 R2 however the Windows 8 (beta) just released will bring tons of new features for Microsoft customer. Here is the PDF http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/F/A/EFA7E5D1-C8F9-40EA-8296-896CD42C1A20/Top_5_Reasons_to_choose_Microsoft_Hyper-V_R2_SP1_over_VMware_vSphere%205.pdf   Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio

MSExchangeTeam announced Log Parser Studio (LPS) which helps a lot using a great user interface which helps a lot. Anyone who regularly uses Log Parser 2.2 knows just how useful and powerful it can be for obtaining valuable information from IIS (Internet Information Server) and other logs. In addition, adding the power of SQL allows explicit searching of gigabytes of logs returning only the data that is needed while filtering out the noise. The only thing missing is a great graphical user interface (GUI) to function as a front-end to Log Parser and a ‘Query Library’ in order to manage … Continue reading Introducing: Log Parser Studio