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Lync 2010 Address Book Sync Workaround

Regarding the silly time it takes for Lync to update the database. Please follow these steps: Exit out of Lync, making sure it’s gone by right clicking it in the task tray and choosing exit First, execute the following command from the Windows Command Prompt run as an administrator (or manually add the GalDownloadInitialDelay registry […]

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SharePoint 2010 Social Collaboration Web Parts Missing

Today one of our SharePoint guys messaged me over Lync with a need to setup social web parts in SharePoint. What he noticed was that he was looking for the note board, organization browser, tag cloud , etc. It seems that somewhere in the past this feature was lost. Possibly during the SharePoint upgrade from 2007 […]

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How-To Technical

How To Find Your Logon Server – Active Directory

To check the local domain controller for a computer or server simply type the following in the command prompt: echo %logonserver% What this does is print the value of the environment variable giving you the machine name of the domain controller being used.  

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News

Microsoft acquired social network Yammer for $1 billion

In another game of pac-man, Microsoft has bought Yammer for $1 billion. For those of you who have no idea who/what Yammer is. Yammer is a social network for working people. A business version of Facebook, all the way down to the looks and feel. Yammer will not allow you to sign up from an email account which is […]

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News Personal

Maintenance Page Elegance

Today I stopped by one of the sites I frequent and noticed a maintenance page. What got me was how elegant it was. The design is clean and simple and left me happy, wanting to return later. I give two thumbs up to Infragistics.

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How-To Software

Remove Lync Info from Workstation

I have run into a little issuing while using Microsoft’s Lync 2010.  It all started when I logged into a test workstation.  After my testing of this awesome product I signed out.  What I noticed was that my log-on info was still there and I was able to log into Lync.  I would like to stop this […]