For the enterprise sys admin by the enterprise sys admin
20
Nov
I was recently in a situation where the Internet Explorer proxy settings were enforced via GPO, however I wanted to use seperate proxy settings for my Google Chrome browsing sessions. Google Chrome doesn’t provide an user interface to change or disable proxy server settings, it uses the proxy settings (amongst other settings) from Internet Explorer. [...]
Tags: browsing, Change Chrome proxy settings, Google Chrome, proxy, proxy settings
18
Nov
I recently made the choice to move my email hosting to Google Apps after having several bad experiences with my previous email hosting provider. I decided to use the ‘free’ Standard Edition which seemed to meet my requirements. It was a surprising easy transition which involved the following steps: Verify domain ownership – this required [...]
Tags: email, gears, google apps, migrate, migrating, Migrating email to Google Apps, outlook
5
Nov
Microsoft’s definition of SIDMap.wsf is : It uses the same disabled user account in the resource forest to enable users for Office Communications Server. To provide single sign-in, the primary user account must also be mapped to the disabled user account in the resource forest for Office Communications Server. This tool performs the mapping. This [...]
Tags: active directory, attribute, attribute synchronization, OCS, Office Communications Server 2007, Resource Kit, SIMap.wsf
4
Nov
We’d rolled out Office Communicator 2007 R2 across the environment, however a handful of machines were getting the ‘Cannot synchronize address book’ error and when expanded the entire error message was ‘Cannot synchronize with the corporate address book. This may be because the proxy server setting in your web browser does not allow access to [...]
Tags: address book, CA, Cannot synchronize, Cannot synchronize address book, Certificates, CRL, CRL Distribution Point, OCS, OCS / Lync, Office Communicator