Weekly IT Newsletter – July 11-15, 2016

Microsoft Exchange:

· Office 365 Exchange Hybrid Deployments Busting The Autodiscover Myth –

· How to Enable Kerberos Authentication for Accessing Exchange in a Resource Forest –

· Five Exchange 2016 migration best practices –

· There’s No Need to Create Connectors for Internal Exchange Server Mail Flow

· MailTips Group Metrics and Large Audience Warnings in Outlook

· Cannot Create Frontend Receive Connector using Exchange 2016 CU2 Admin Center

· Throttling Policy in Exchange Server 2016 for Better Performance

Skype for Business:

· Lync 2013 / SfB 2015 Client Update – July 2016 –

· CloudPBX PSTN Consumption Billing Is Here (And with It, Toll Free) –

· Introducing the Microsoft Skype Operations Framework (SOF) –

· Skype for Business and Lync Centralised Event Viewer Tool –

· Skype for Business Mac Preview adds contacts, presence and IM –

· Updated Skype for Linux Client Released by Microsoft for Alpha Testing –

· Skype Broadcast Meetings–A Preview–Q&A & On Demand Playback –

· AudioCodes IP Phone Manager Express

· Skype for Business Does not Use Bots or BOT Framework in 2016

· PortQryUI – Skype for Business Edition – Corrado’s Blog

· Device Updates with Skype for Business Online

· Skype for Business–Block Call Identified as Malicious

· Cloud Connector Edition Hybrid Voice Guide Version 2

· Configure Toll-free Numbers for Dial-In Conferencing in Office365

Active Directory:

· Azure AD Mailbag: Hybrid Identity and ADFS –

· Accelerating Azure Multi Factor Authentication in Enterprise Organization –

· ADFS with multiple forest authentication to Azure AD –

· Who broke my user GPOs?

· The new Azure AD Connect built in user filter: adminDescription.

· Using Group Policy to configure UAC (User Account Control) on a Windows 7 desktop

Office 365:

· Office 365 news at WPC 2016 –

· Announcing the public preview of the new Office 365 Network online community –

· Office 365 news roundup –

· Using the Office 365 Hybrid Configuration Wizard (Part 5) –

· New in Intune: Conditional access for browsers, Dynamics CRM Online and Cisco ISE

· What is the hostname of my Office 365 MX records?

· Why Facebook is betting on Office 365 and the Microsoft Cloud

· How to recognize an event in which Office 365 recipient send spam mail?

Microsoft Azure:

· Azure B2B introduction –

· Announcing the release of the Azure Usage and Billing Portal –

· HDInsight tool in Azure Toolkit for Eclipse is GA!

· Azure SQL Data Warehouse supports SSMS, higher DWUs and additional T-SQL features

· Growing the Azure Ecosystem with Microsoft Azure Stack

· Azure in 5 minutes: Azure Site Recovery (ASR) for VMware – Test Failover Walk Through

· Configuring Deepnet Security SafeID OATH Token with Microsoft Azure MFA Server

· Default checks to perform when implementing Hybrid Identity, Part 4: Groups with large memberships

Windows Client, Windows Server and Windows Phone:

· Announcing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 14390 for PC and Mobile –

· What’s in the July 2016 CU for Windows 10 –

· Microsoft Officially Announces Windows Server 2016 Will Launch During Ignite –

· Windows 10 Anniversary Update nears RTM with bugfixes galore –

· Windows Server 2016 coming in September, with new servicing for Nano Server

· Microsoft Flow now available on the Google Play Store as a beta

· Here’s what’s still broken in Windows 10 Mobile build 14390

· Here are the fixes and known issues in Windows 10 for PCs build 14390

Microsoft Office:

· FindTime for Outlook – Doodle for Business | Thomas Maurer –

· Microsoft: New Outlook.com rollout complete “by end of summer at the latest” –

· Faster OLAP PivotTables in Excel 2016

· Take your OneNote Class Notebooks wherever you go with the new “Save a copy” feature

SharePoint & Office Web App Server:

· Get started with PowerShell and SharePoint Online

SQL:

· SQL Server 2014 SP2 is now available –

· Calculating SQL Database DTU for Azure SQL DB Using PowerShell

· Microsoft JDBC Driver 6.0 for SQL Server is now released!

· The elastic future of data warehousing

System Center:

· Skype for Business SCOM watchernode is not doing all tests

· ConfigMgr 1602 Hotfix (KB3155482) In-Console Installation FAQ

· SCSM Incident – Service Adder and Reclassification Tools

· New License Model: Operations Management Suite (OMS) Subscription

KB’s:

· Meetings are off by one hour in certain time zones

· Meetings created from iOS in certain time zones are not delivered to attendees

· Hotfix rollup 3166741 for the .NET Framework 4.6 and 4.6.1 in Windows

· Servicing stack update for Windows 8.1 and Windows Server 2012 R2: July 12, 2016

· July 12, 2016, update for Office

· MS16-092: Description of the security update for Windows Kernel: July 12, 2016

· Remote Server Administration Tools (RSAT) for Windows operating systems

· Unable to access mailbox with Receive-As permission on mailbox database

· Rtcrsv.exe stops working when you add a TCP-enabled trusted application to a trusted application pool

Downloads & Recent Releases:

· Download New Office Visio Stencil from Official Microsoft Download Center –

· Security Update for Microsoft Office Web Apps Server 2013 (KB3115289) –

· Security Update for Microsoft Office Online Server (KB3115386) –

· Microsoft Office for Mac 2011 14.6.6 Update –

· MFA technical guides –

· Single Sign-on technical guides –

· Device Management technical guides –

· Microsoft system center configuration manager hybrid diagnostics

· Power BI business documentation

· Onedrive sync client unifies client file storage and synchronization

· Microsoft Press Releases free Windows 10 ebook Written by Ed Bott

· O365 Extend GTM materials

· O365 Extend readiness materials

· Single Sign-on business documentation

· Persona Management business documentation

Scripts & PowerShell:

· Create IIS websites with PowerShell

· Stupid CsAnalogDevice Tricks | Mandie’s Memos