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Let’s face it.  There are times when a stored procedure is going to create a more efficient query, and provide the flexibility you need to return attributes from multiple SQL tables in a non-traditional way.  In my case, I had a number of different log tables that I wanted to combine into a single result.  My log tables contained different field attributes, and so I was not able to simply use th...

The Microsoft Management Summit 2012 looks like it will be an incredible experience with all of the updates occurring in the System Center 2012 space (pun somewhat intended)! I highly recommend that if you can be there – be there. I think that this will be an incredible MMS – I’m looking forward to it almost as much as I am to seeing The Avengers (one is happening in April, one is happening in Ma...

This summary is the work of a colleague of mine Eric Morrison who attended both the SystemCenterUniverse event and two days of user group meetings presented by the infamous Wally Mead. Well done Eric (and of course well done Wally for spending time with the crew in Austin!). Eric’s blog post on this is available at: http://myitforum.com/myitforumwp/2012/01/26/configmgr-2012-notes-from-the-system-c...

Eric Morrison posted a really nice blog post today.  He was able to attend both the System Center Universe event and both days of CTSMUG hosting Wally Mead.  He's got some great notes and a good overview on ConfigMgr 2012 features. Read his full post here. Great job Eric!

I’m currently working on a project standing up 3 UAG servers in an array.  I ran into a problem where the UAG array master couldn’t connect to one of the UAG array members.  It turned out for some oddball reason the computer account of the array master wasn’t added in the array member’s local administrator group.  The screenshot below shows UAG02 on the left and UAG03 on the right.  See how UA...

The following questions are the result of yesterday’s self-proclaimed game of “stump the chump” with myself playing the chump in a room full of IT folks (who had some excellent questions on Configuration Manager and Operations Manager). The responses below are from my colleagues who stepped up to provide answers to these questions including:   Chris Nackers, David Jaffe, Marty List, Terry Taylor...

? I started writing a new blog post last night to show the results of the Hybrid Wizard in Exchange 2010 SP2 on the on-premises and Office 365 environments. As I was writing it, it started to take on a life of its own. I liked the direction it was/is going and might work it into more of a white paper on Office 365, Hybrid Deployment and Administration. So with that said I still want to do follow-...

? A few weeks ago we previewed a Windows 8 Metro BI app prototype. As we mentioned during that preview, we learned a lot about Windows 8 Metro app development. This post is the first of an in-depth series regarding what we learned developing on this new and exciting platform. There are quite a few pieces/parts that go into the development of a HTML 5 Windows 8 Metro app. Some are created for us...

An issue we recently experienced with our SharePoint 2010 document sharing site had to do with List Item ECB Context Menu hover positioning on large document libraries that required you to scroll down to see all items.  When you hover over a list item, the expected behavior is that the context menu would be displayed to the right of the document title, and this is the case for the most part, until...