I have been working on Azure Infrastructure Services since it was in preview release. One of the requirements I was working with was hybrid scenario where VPN between on-premises servers and Azure VMs was essential. Since I was doing all the required testing in my lab at home office, I … Continue reading
In my previous post, I showed how to create an Office Web Apps Server 2013 farm. Since I can’t leave you hanging, I am going to show you the next step of setting up a load balancer for the same. I assume you have created DNS entry for owaps.contoso.com and … Continue reading
If you are deploying Lync Server 2013 and want to present Powerpoint presentations in Web Conferencing, Office Web Apps Server is a requirement. Most references I found talks about deploying a single server, however, I wanted to deploy redundant setup. In today’s post, I’m going to show you how to … Continue reading
While creating one of many Lync scenario labs, I chose to install SQL Server 2012 instead of my usual install of SQL 2008 on Windows Server 2012. Going about my happy routine after clicking install, I expected install to complete when I returned a few hours later. Murphy never fails … Continue reading
LoadMaster firmware 7.0-4 just became generally available from KEMP Technologies. For those who aren’t aware, LoadMaster is load balancing and application delivery controller product from KEMP Technologies. I in particular am very excited about this release for a few reasons: Edge Security Pack: This firmware is first release of Edge … Continue reading
Since I am working on in-house Microsoft Lync evaluation project, we decided to give all mobile clients a try. It included trying Android client on Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 10.1. I am not going to write unboxing experience or how to setup Galaxy Tab. Sorry to disappoint. The experience is … Continue reading
Installing WordPress on Windows Servers have been a challenge for me in the past. Mostly because of my ignorance to web development and the pre-requisites such as PHP and MySQL. Pre-requisites especially because I didn’t know where to get it, how to install it and ofcourse searching the web always … Continue reading
With release of Lync 2013, Cummulative Update in February 2013, Microsoft enabled Lync 2013 deployments to serve mobile users. Release of mobile clients for Windows Phone 8, Apple iPhone/iPad and Android devices completes the solution as a whole. Setting up mobility for a pure Lync 2013 environment (I am not … Continue reading
As I was going along my day, a tweet from one of my friends popped up on twitter. He has just lost a very important 23 page document to SkyDrive snafu. I am sure he invested good amount of time and effort producing it too. Without going into what caused … Continue reading
I have always preferred to have least amount of overhead possible when running Server workloads. For the same reason my Hyper-V lab infrastructure is configured to run Windows Server 2012 Core. There are times however, when you may want to have GUI. So I set out to configure one of … Continue reading
