Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 Service Pack 4

Service Pack 4 is RELEASED! Forefront UAG 2010 SP4 includes the following features: Added client devices : Windows 8.1 Forefront UAG 2010 SP4 supports Windows 8.1 client computers that use Internet Explorer 11 and Internet Explorer 11 on the desktop. Mail: Users can use the built-in Mail application on Windows 8.1 computers to connect to …

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Associate your Windows Azure account with your Office 365 Organizational Directory (Windows Azure Active Directory)

Associate your Windows Azure account with your Office 365 Organizational Directory (Windows Azure Active Directory) Here are the steps for getting access to your Office 365 Organizational Directory (Windows Azure Active Directory) from the Windows Azure Management Portal. Prerequisites: You should already have subscribed to an Office 365 account. You would also need administrative permissions …

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How does the Mirosoft Windows 2012 R2 – Web Application Proxy compare to the Microsoft Forefront UAG 2010?

The Web Application Proxy is part of Remote Access role in Windows 2012 R2 and is all about publishing access to resources internally in the corporation. It’s web application publishing! It’s about publishing websites or web-enabled claims based applications It has a very specific BYOD flavor to it! Web Application Proxy is not ment to replace Microsoft Forefront …

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The mystery about the failing DirectAccess wizard

Some weeks ago, I visted a new customer to perform a deployment of a very simple Microsoft DirectAccess deployment. Everything seemed fine before I started the deployment. The PKI was in place and I though that it would only take a couple of hours to perform the deploy and do some testing. I was so wrong….. 🙁 …

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Installing System Center Endpoint Protection for Mac OS X

Microsoft brings security to Mac  During Microsoft Management Summit 2012 it was announced that Microsoft will support both Linux and Mac from Configuration Manager 2012 and also deliver System Center Endpoint Protection for these operating systems. You can read the annocement here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/06/15/system-center-2012-extends-client-management-and-security-to-mac-and-linux.aspx This guide is only for manually deploying the System Center Endpoint Protection …

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How To: Enable Maintenance Mode from OpsMgr Agent side

This guide explians how to enable maintenance mode from the agent side. Allowing for a simplified way of activating computer maintenance mode. This version adds the ability to turn off maintenance mode from the agent as well as turn it on. The vbscript has been updated with some more options and some instructions on how …

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