This coming Saturday, April 22 I’ll be join a few other speakers in Jacksonville, FL and hundreds of speakers around the globe to take part in the 2017 Global Azure Bootcamp. I’ll be speaking on using ARM to provisioning Azure Virtual Machines. So, if you want to come get introduced to creating ARM templates for Azure VMs, come join me … Read More
A recent Office 365 update and it’s effect on ADFS and CSOM
I have yet to get a confirmation from Microsoft that this was the result of an update. But considering it worked a week ago (the week of April 3, 2017), and doesn’t work this week (April 10, 2017) I can only assume that’s what it was. They also had several users with issues logging into Office 365 via ADFS starting … Read More
Keep up to date on Office 365 and Azure IT Pro Topics and News
There’s a new Podcast on the horizon focused on the Office 365 IT Pro! I’m excited to announce that Scott Hoag (@ciphertxt) and I (@benstegink) are starting a new podcast focused on the Microsoft Cloud from the perspective of a couple of IT Pros. We’ve already recorder our first episode and are planning to record a few more over the … Read More
SharePoint Online, Modern UI and Required Metadata … or not
If you’ve used SharePoint at all, hopefully you’re familiar with metadata within lists and libraries. One nice aspect of such metadata is that you can set certain fields to be required and other fields to be optional. Required metadata simply forces you to fill in these fields before the file can be checked in to SharePoint and available for others. … Read More
A Quick test of Accelerated Networking in Azure
Intro Recently, Microsoft announced Accelerated Networking in Azure. At a high level, they took FPGAs in the Azure Data Center, connected them to the Azure IaaS hosts over PCIe and use that for networking as opposed to the standard way of networking using Hyper-V. You can view a diagram and an article from Microsoft on how it all works here … Read More
New Course: Office 365 – Manage Clients and End User Devices
Interested in learning more about Office 365 – Manage Clients and End User Devices? My latest course on Office 365 has been published on Opsgility. “This course gives you an introduction to managing your Office 365 Clients and end user Devices. This course begins by covering two deployment models for Client and App Deployments, a User-Drive Deployment and an IT … Read More
SharePoint 2016 New-SPConfigurationDatabase: The Missing Documentation
If you’ve tried to configure SharePoint 2016 with PowerShell, you need to use the New-SPConfigurationDatabase cmdlet. If you look at the PowerShell cmdlet index here https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff678226.aspx You’ll find the cmdlet listed there, but it isn’t indicated as being to new to SharePoint 2016. Technically, this is correct as this same cmdlet was used to configure SharePoint 2013. If you click … Read More
Unlock a SharePoint File with PowerShell
SharePoint can do some goofy things at times. Is getting an orphaned file lock within a Document Library. Fortunately you can quickly unlock a SharePoint file with PowerShell. You may see an error that is similar to: “The file is currently checked out or locked for editing by another user” or “The file is locked for shared use by…” What … Read More
I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando in December
I’ll be speaking at Live! 360 Orlando, December 5-9. Surrounded by your fellow industry professionals, Live! 360 provides you with immediately usable training and education that will keep you relevant in the workforce. My Sessions I’ll be presenting the following sessions: Implementing and Managing Office 365 – This sessions will be high level overview of Office 365. We’ll talk about … Read More
Installing and Running PowerShell on macOS Sierra
I’m sure you’ve seen it, PowerShell has been open sourced and is now available on OS X and Linux. Good news is, you can also run PowerShell on macOS Sierra beta in everything I’ve tested so far (I spent more of the day the other day just writing and running Powershell within macOS beta). Enough about the release, you can … Read More