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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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124-Year-Old Patent Reveals The Right Way To Use Toilet Paper

“My invention… consists in a toll of wrapping paper with perforations on the line of the division between on sheet and the next, so as to be easily torn apart, such roll of wrapping paper forming a new article of manufacture.” [youtube id=”knOyXPklyk4″ width=”600″ height=”350″] For once I can prove to my wife that I […]

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SOTD: Internal ONLY

This is a forged email originating from Administrator@<yourdomain><tld> – body – **********Important – Internal ONLY********** File Validity: 16/03/2015 Company : http://<domain>.com File Format: Adobe Reader Legal Copyright: Adobe Corporation. Original Filename: Internal.pdf ********** Confidentiality Notice **********. This e-mail and any file(s) transmitted with it, is intended for the exclusive use by the person(s) mentioned above […]

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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 […]