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Installing Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2013

Tonight’s “home work” Assignment: Update  Companies Exchange 2013 to Cumulative Update 3 Purpose Address many of the issues that existed in Cumulative Update 2. Bring additional value to the company Oh and some of the newly introduced features / enhancements should help also: Usability improvements when adding members to distribution groups in the Exchange Administration […]

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SharePoint List View Lookup Threshold

Testing a pilot of a recent SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013 upgrade I encountered a message reading: “This view cannot be displayed because the number of lookup and workflow status columns it contains exceeds the threshold (8) enforced by the administrator” This seems to be resource throttling introduced in the web application to limit the number […]

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Using Gmail as my SMTP server

In the past I use to host my own email server here at the SOHO of jermsmit.com.  Today I found myself in need of setting up alerts for some of my network based equipment. So I used Gmail (thanks Google) for this task. To make this work you need the following: A gmail account (make […]

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Happy New Year 2014

It’s here the day we all waited 365 days for. Looking back for a brief moment into 2013, I can say it was a very successful year.  I am now moving forward with this momentum right into this year with the hopes and drive to accomplish even more. This is day one, we have 364 left […]

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Chat with no central authority using BitTorrent Chat

With the many communication platforms out today it’s a hard for I or anyone else for that matter to recommend one that is best for you. One this is similar about many of them today. They all relay on some centralized server to route and store all of your communication. They also store what you […]

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SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013, Content Database Upgrade

I have been working on upgrading SharePoint 2010 to SharePoint 2013.  Here are some notes on steps taken to update a content database for your default web application. Please note:   A backup of your default (primary) SharePoint 2010 content database is needed. These steps are for those who have already installed SharePoint and have […]