Using Lync Client SDK to Automate Call Testing
A while ago I did a blog post and it leverage the Lync Client SDK to do call testing but it was dependant on the users being in your contact list. This is ok to a degree but what if you needed to...
View ArticleReading a Certificate off a remote SSL Server for Troubleshooting with...
By no means is this a unique idea but here is my version…. The problem is trying to validate a certificate on a secure port which you cannot browse to! For example Lync services can run on port 5061...
View ArticleTechEd Europe 2014
Last week in barcelona I had to privilege to present a session called In depth Introduction to Service Management Automation! We have a nice room and it was pretty full… the best part about it is...
View ArticleSMA Run book for enabling hyper-v replica after deployment in WAP
In Windows Azure Pack you have the ability to link your Automation runbooks to an "Event" One of the common things that I see is about providing a disaster recovery solution to a customer especially...
View ArticleLets start blogging again!
Over the past few months, lots of have happened … tons of learning, various conferences and lots of writing.. not blogs but books and training material… hopefully now things are getting less hectic so...
View ArticleExport all your Trusted Root Certificate from Local Machine store
Today I was working on a case for a customer where every web page he visited he got a security error in all browsers. The main message was “Could not Establish a Trust” It was a Windows 2008 R2...
View ArticleUse Microsoft Update or Internal WSUS depending on your location
Here is another case I was asked about how to have internal clients use the WSUS server they have published when connected to the corporate network and when outside the corporate network to use...
View ArticleDeploy a VM with Azure PowerShell Preview 1.0 Cmdlets
There are tons of examples out there and to be honest this is for as much my reference to go back and grab it when I need it. so here is a simple script nothing fancy whatsoever but functional First...
View ArticleUpdate
Hey all So I have been quite for a while… this is mainly due to high workloads but also I moved! I am now a resident in San Francisco! Will be trying to put more online in the coming weeks as I come...
View ArticleGetting all operations for all Providers so create custom roles in RBAC for...
Today I was asked to help a customer find ALL the roles available for inclusion into a RBAC role’s they possibly want to create. There is no definitive list I could find but it definitely is there in...
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