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Get Windows 10 Technical Preview – March Update

Yes its close, very close so why not get to testing out the latest version of Windows 10 build 10041. Keep in mind that this is an early build of Windows 10 so issues may exist; however I’ve not run into many worth mentioning   The download links can be found here Product key: NKJFK-GPHP7-G8C3J-P6JXR-HQRJR  

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Office 365: Initiate a full password sync using DirSync

Having a need to rapidly sync passwords to Office 365 using Directly Sync (DirSync) I come across the following method that seems to work with minimal effort.  By default the DirSync only kicks off ever 3-5 min’s. To initiate a full password sync you can do the following: Open PowerShell, and then type: Import-Module DirSync   […]

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Office 365: Directory Synchronization Isssues

Yes!  In Office 365 at last and now synchronizations are failing The followin message is shown in the forefront identity manager: stopped-server-down And with the event id of 655 the following message is shown: Failed credential provisioning ping. Error: Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ServerDownException: Failed even after 5 retries. Action: ProvisionCredentials, Exception: Unable to communicate with the Windows Azure […]

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Office 365: MO17808 – Service degradation

Well this may be why I’ve had issues all day Current Status: Engineers continue to perform tests on the affected networking capacity in order to develop a plan to remediate impact. User Experience: End users are not directly affected by this issue. Customer Impact: Customer impact appears to be limited at this time. Any users […]

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Tech Short: Generate Pi to a given number in Linux

Its Pi day – Saturday, March 14 is Pi Day 2015 Why not do something cool in Linux like generate pi to a given number of decimal places.  This can be done by using the tool  bc (Bench Calculator) which is installed in most Linux distributions I have used. The following command will calculate π to 10 decimal […]

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Happy Pi Day – 3.1415

Saturday, March 14 is Pi Day 2015 Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi has been calculated to over one […]