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Getting Send From to work in Exchange 2010

Do you have issues with being able to send as an alias account you have in Outlook?  I have sperate accounts but want to send as each of the accounts without having to have two Outlook profiles. In your secondary account assign the following to your primary account:
  • Full Control
  • Send As
  • Send on Behalf Of
Now all is well...
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SPN Self Registration

Are you trying to increase security by removing extranious permissions from service accounts but growing a little tired of having to manually assign SPN's to them? If so get to work with ADSIEdit.
  • Open ADSI edit and connect to the default naming context.
  • Navigate through the structure to your service...
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SCCM 2012 Named SQL Instance Error

If you get the 'Setup is unable to connect to SQL Server with the information provided. Verify the following:' when trying to specify a named SQL instance during SCCM 2012 setup read on.... Check that you have configured the following:
  • Collation as SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
  • Services Packs
  • Cumulative Updates
If all of these are...
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MCSE: Private Cloud

Today after many weeks of waiting my results for the two Private Cloud beta exams (71-246 and 71-247) arrived and to my surprise I have passed both.   I was a little unsure after taking the exams due the large content of SCSM and Orchestrator, which lets be honest most people are not likely to ever use,...
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SQL – Check your authentication scheme

Have you ever wanted to check which method you are using to authenticate to a SQL backend?   Just run the following SQL to return the current authentication scheme your user context is using. SELECT session_id, auth_scheme FROM sys.dm_exec_connections WHERE session_id=@@spid You can easily modify the above to give you the authentication...
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