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OWSUG Windows 8 Study Group

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Windows 8 Start Screen

The Ottawa Windows Server User Group is running another study group again this spring, this time for Windows 8. Having written and passed the exam this past weekend, I can tell you this exam is challenging. Studying for it is necessary and working with a group might help with your success. The cost is $250.00 and that includes an exam voucher and the study guide. Pretty good deal.

You can sign up at EventBrite: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/5764587035/es2005/?rank=1

Here is the full details:

We are pleased announce that we are now accepting applications to join our Configuring Windows 8(70-687) study group.

Content

The focus will be on preparing to pass the Configuring Windows 8 (70-687) exam.
Training Guide: Configuring Windows 8 (70-687) will be provided.

 Schedule

Sessions take place on Wednesday evenings from 6:00 PM until 8:30 PM at Cistel Technology Inc. (210 Colonnade Rd, 2nd Floor)beginning March 27th, 2013 and continuing until May 29th, 2013 for a total of 10 sessions (estimated).

 Objectives

1. Individual:

a. Prepare for the sessions by reading the training material content on the study group schedule.
b. Develop and improve skills with Windows 8.
c. Configuring Windows 8(70-687) certification

2. Group:

a. Review the content, perform demonstrations and review exam practice questions.
b. Attend 95 % of the sessions.

Mentors

The study group will be mentored by OWSUG.ca Study Group Coordinators Garth Gorling, Andre Potel and Chris Stanton

Offer

Cost to participate in the study group is $ 250.  All participants will receive a copy (to keep) of the Training Guide: Configuring Windows® 8 2012(70-687) and exam voucher

Apply

To apply please send an email to EVENT BRITE.  Additional registration details will be sent only to people that pre-register.

Thank you,

Garth, Chris and Andre

 

Publishing Exchange Web Services for Lync

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I’ve been involved in a 12,000 seat, 33,000 user Lync deployment at work over the past few weeks. One of the pain points we had, was publishing free/busy from Exchange for internet connected clients. We use an appliance to give access to our internal resources including OWA and Exchange ActiveSync. And because we are implementing an MDM solution, we are not wanting to make much available externally without having to go through the MDM solution.

Finding good articles covering publishing EWS without exposing everything is few and far between. Luckily I did find a link a couple of weeks back talking about how to do this. For our Lync deployment we are using Threat Management Gateway 2010 (TMG 2010 ) to publish our Lync services to external users. So tacking this feature on is relatively painless.  Here is the link here: http://www.confusedamused.com/notebook/publishing-exchange-web-services-remotely-only-for-lync/.

Enjoy

 

 

Powershell Commands to Build a new AD Forest

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Looking to script your AD on Windows Server 2012? Here is the code you will need to create new forest on a new server. This could be useful for setting up some self service scripts for people setting up their own environment. Also, keep this handy when you want to deploy Windows Server 2012 but want to deploy Core instead of GUI.

 

 

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# Windows PowerShell script for AD DS Deployment
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Import-Module ADDSDeployment
Install-ADDSForest `
-CreateDnsDelegation:$false `
-DatabasePath “C:\Windows\NTDS” `
-DomainMode “Win2012” `
-DomainName “ad.contoso.com” `
-DomainNetbiosName “AD” `
-ForestMode “Win2012” `
-InstallDns:$true `
-LogPath “C:\Windows\NTDS” `
-NoRebootOnCompletion:$false `
-SysvolPath “C:\Windows\SYSVOL” `
-Force:$true