Author Archives: John

gMail – Outlook 2010 Calendar Sync

Posted on July 23, 2011 by John

Google provides a calander synchronization tool to sync the online Calendar with Outlook as a free download. Documentation as well as the link is located at http://www.google.com/support/calendar/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=89955. The tool provides one-way (Gmail to Outlook and Outlook to Gmail) as well … Continue reading →

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File Association Fix

Posted on July 22, 2011 by John

Ever have one of those days where you click something and everything doesn’t seem to work correctly from that point on and when you try to find out what caused it, you dig yourself deeper into a hole that you … Continue reading →

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Application Server Evaluations – Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, Overview

Posted on July 5, 2011 by John

This is the kick off to my review of Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011, the successor to CRM Version 4. This will be an on-premise installation. Sorry, I just have to get involved at the system level. Of course once the … Continue reading →

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Application Server Evaluations – Hyper-V Failure

Posted on July 1, 2011 by John

I’ve prepared the L7TG virtual domain to evaluate 2 new “on-premise” Microsoft Server technologies: Microsoft Dynamics CRM 2011 and Microsoft SharePoint 2010. I’m running Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Hyper-V in a Workgroup on a black box Intel E3400 3.0GHZ, … Continue reading →

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Application Server Evaluations – Domain Preparation

Posted on June 22, 2011 by John

This is the first part of a new series on application server evaluations of CRM and SharePoint. In this series, I’m primarily interested in the Infrastructure required to support the application. A later series will concentrate on the application from … Continue reading →

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Eastside Legal BPOS … Follow-up

Posted on May 21, 2011 by John

As a follow-up to the BPOS onboarding project in January, 2010, I recently asked Stan Kehl, the Executive Director of Eastside Legal Assistance Program, for an assessment of how things are going now that the entire organization is using the … Continue reading →

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Eastside Legal Volunteer Award

Posted on May 12, 2011 by John

Eastside Legal Assistance Program (ELAP) is a non-profit organization, located in Bellevue, WA that provides low-cost legal assistance to low income individuals and families in East King County Washington. I’ve been a member of the Board of Directors for two … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0

Posted on March 10, 2011 by John

This particular exercise happened over a year ago. Nevertheless, I thought it might make a good read and so, here it is. The Level 7 Technology Group was considering a move to the Chicago area during the summer. In December … Continue reading →

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eLearning – System Center Operations Manager 2007

Posted on February 1, 2011 by John

John takes on the oldest product in the series, SCOM 2007 as prelude to his next foray into System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008. Continue reading →

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eLearning – Exchange Server 2010 Collection

Posted on January 28, 2011 by John

This course is delivered in the same manner as other eLearning Infrastructure courses. The problem with this one is that the Labs don’t work. Continue reading →

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