Thursday, March 26, 2015

Outlook.com SMTP Settings on Outlook 2010

UPDATE – Still ongoing issue, works / does not work.  Arg! %$#@

After some trial and error, here are the settings for SMTP for outlook.com using outlook 2010 without the Internet Connector installed.  This is on and old Terminal Server that is still running Office 2010 but user unable to install new software, so manual configuration had to do.

NOTE: Strange however that I needed to use logon using outlook.com account info and not selecting use same as incoming on the Outgoing server tab.

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Azure News

2015

Introducing Email notifications for Azure Site Recovery - March 12, 2015
http://azure.microsoft.com/blog/2015/03/12/introducing-email-notifications-azure-site-recovery/

2014

The global Windows Azure community is coming together on Saturday, March 29th to host several Windows Azure Boot Camps all around the world.  It truly is a Global Windows Azure Boot Camp!

The Columbus edition of the Global Windows Azure Boot Camp will be held at the local Microsoft office.  Brian Sherwin, Michael Collier, and Mike Wood will lead you through a series of presentations and labs designed to help you learn all about Windows Azure

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

SharePoint 2013 Work-arounds

Do you Miss?…
Logon As Different User http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2752600

  1. Start Internet Explorer by using the Run as different user option, and then go to the SharePoint site.
    Note: The Run as different user option is visible if you hold the Shift key when you right-click a program icon.
  2. Access the SharePoint site by using the the URL ashttp://siteurl/_layouts/closeConnection.aspx?loginasanotheruser=true

Do You Miss?…
The Ole List and Library Interface?
http://yourservername/sites/yoursite/_layouts/create.aspx
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Azure – Start Here

More from the cloud engineer

Basics (legacy)
http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2015/04/azure-basic-definitions.html

Labs

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2017/04/azure-labs.html

http://thecloudengineer.blogspot.com/2011/09/great-sharepoint-2010-sp1-vhd.html

Spending Limits - Piece of Mind
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/spending-limits/

Early Experts
Great Site from Keith Meyer – Microsoft Evangelist
http://blogs.technet.com/b/keithmayer/archive/2015/01/12/early-experts-study-guide-for-microsoft-specialist-certification-exam-70-534-architecting-microsoft-azure-solutions.aspx

Labs from IT GURU

Description and Live links to Series

- See more at: http://itproguru.com/expert/2015/02/it-camp-azure-labslab-5-building-application-workloads-deploy-data-access-appstep-by-step/#sthash.Htz6f0FL.dpuf

Screen by Screen Labs – Yung Chou and others
https://yungchou.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/screen-by-screen-guided-labs-for-us-it-camps-in-spring-of-2015/

Online version is also at http://aka.ms/FY15Q3Labs. In addition,

Lab 1

Create a virtual network, allocate a storage account and configure a cloud service. Which builds a foundation for deploying resources in Azure.

Lab 2

Deploy a VM with custom script to configure an AD forest. This AD environment is to mimic an on-premises Active Directory establishment for Lab 3 to configure DIrSync with Azure AD in cloud.

Lab 3

Create an azure AD directory followed by configuring DirSyn and MFA, i.e. multi-factor authentication. The click-through includes the deployment of an Active Directory forest, identical to the one in Lab 2 to make Lab 3 a self-contain module for learning DirSync and MFA.

Lab 4

Configure the connectivity between Azure VMs of a SQL server and an IIS server to form a web application.

Lab 5 – Soon

Deploy a web application to the web server configured in Lab 4. The click-through is to be available. Subscribe the page to receive the updates.