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Famous physicist Covers Monty Python’s: Galaxy Song

Famous physicist Stephen Hawking covers Monty Python’s: Galaxy Song This goes to show us all that even a serious scientist and perhaps the smartest man alive can be silly at times. [youtube id=”XfcC6FYyL4U” width=”600″ height=”350″]

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Option to mount .iso in Windows 8 missing

Friday, April 10, 2015 By now we are aware that Windows 8 has the ability to mount .ISO files. But what happens when one day you go to click on that .ISO file and the mount option is missing. This is what happened to me.  To fix this little problem the following steps were followed: […]

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Office 365: EX20870 – Restoring service

Incident and Reported Details Incident ID: EX20870 Details: Current Status: Engineers have found that a portion of the affected infrastructure did not upgrade to the latest version as was intended. The remaining server capacity is now being updated. Once this is complete, engineers will run additional tests to confirm the update resolves the underlying root cause. […]

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Tech Short: Stop and Start Lync Services On A Server

How can I take on this task, let me count the ways… After installing a new certificate on our Lync server I needed to restart the services to complete the change.  I was able to do this with two powershell commands. Stop Services Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} | Stop-CsWindowsService Start Services Get-CsWindowsService | […]

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Tech Short: List Running Lync Services

A quick task on the Lync server where I needed to list running services.  Indeed I could do this in the services panel using services.msc but this time I wanted to play in powershell. By typing the following I could list all running services that pertains to Lync Get-CsWindowsService | Where-Object {$_.Status -eq “Running”} ref: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg398803.aspx

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Tech Short: Use Dsquery tool to manage group memberships On-Prem to Office 365

  I had mentioned in a previous post about the inability to self service groups. Problem: on-premises distribution group is synced to a Microsoft Office 365 organization through Active Directory synchronization, migrated users who are owners of the distribution group can’t manage it in Microsoft Exchange Online Solution: Use the Exchange Tools (But we no longer […]