Unified contacts between Exchange and Lync are stored in what location?

exchange

In prior versions, user photos needed to be updated in each product. Now, with integration, all user photos are stored in what Office 365 product?

exchange

shadow protect HSR - head start restore --- another weekend job

did the head start restore on friday, very slow at 3.3 Mbps

on saturday morning, did a few incrementals

to my shock, on saturday it refuse to complete the HSR remaining incrementals, some file missiing - error

eventually found out I need to the Friday's incremental HSR, then to Saturday mornings

this got something to do with the imagemanager

image a windows XP from a desktop over to a HP notebook -- storagecraft shadow protect --- HIR restore -- hyper-v -- dynamic disk -- EASEUS

yeah, I still have a XP machine, a desktop, one reason is for the mustek usb old scanner

yeah, that old scanner only got xp driver (or the version below )

over the holidays, the XP PC costs me $20.00 more in terms of electricity

my plan is to copy the hard drive over to an old notebook

what a challenge ,

it started all about the size.

here is the laundry

1/ I took an image of the desktop hard drive (160GB)

2/ I tried to restore to the notebook hard drive (160GB), unfortuaately, its only showing as 149GB, shadowproect refuse to restore,  as the original image got 152GB solid. even if it only has 21Gb data

3/ I tried to shrink the backup image, no luck, I guess the disk is badly fragmented

4/ virtual machines come to rescue, I restored the xp image to as a hyper-v VM,

5/ and in the VM  I installed EASEUS free version , and shrink the partition by 4GB.

6/ and I this VM shadowprotect image again and tried to restore to the notebook. then error pops out, shadow protect v4 not license , HIR fail. of course my IT key is liensed v5.
tried to take the image use many versions of shadow protect include the RE disc

7/ in despair, I logged a case with SP support, I am told to use the RE disc to capture the image, they will send me an activation key.

8/ tried again , suddenly I found I could not mount the VM SP image, I got disk error. the reason is unknown....

9/ I tried another approach, directly restore the vhdx to the HP notebook

10/ first attempt, the dynamic disk is seen by SP as 1TB drive, no can do

11/ go back to the hyper-v dynamic disk, make a copy, convert it the a fixed size disk,

12/ restore to final vhdx xp vm disk direclty to the HP notebook using shadowprotect RE 5.2.4

13/ at the end of it, it asking for a license, I took a picture, then the notebook restarted, into windows XP ( this bit is bizare , got me out of the HIR trouble, maybe the original xp got many drivers already)

14/ anyway, re-activate windows xp license

15/ project completed

chrome wont resume --

chrome will not do resume

http://lifehacker.com/resume-a-failed-chrome-download-with-firefox-1655246429

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/interrupted-download-heres-how-to-resume-in-chrome/

What is the maximum number of messages that is currently supported per mailbox folder in Exchange Online?

What is the maximum number of messages that is currently supported per mailbox folder in Exchange Online?

1 million

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/exchange-online-limits.aspx#MessageLimits

USB re-director on Hyper-V

USB re-director on Hyper-V

No can do,

http://www.incentivespro.com/hyper-v-usb.html

MS fail over cluster support policy

MS fail over cluster support policy

1/ all parts need have a windows logo

2/ complete solution must pass cluster validation

failover clustering 101 from MVA

failover clustering 101 from MVA

1. deploy redundant hardware everywhere

2. shared storage accessible by all nodes

3. clustered application writes data to shared storage so all nodes can assess it

4. registry settings containing current cluster configuration infomation is replicated to each node

6. a node fails, the health check will fail, and a failover will happen

7. anohter node knows what the failed node was hosting through the registry and start that application

install windows 10 tech preview enterprise on my new notebook

I did this before the most recent release

downloaded two isos, one for clean install, the other for upgrade install

the notbook HP pro 650 G1 was running w7 pro x64 w/sp1 out of the box

I used HP assistant updated the NB, the first day it didn't there were updates. the second day, it installed heaps of HP updates.

next, install w10 , mounted the clean-install iso, installation failed upon reboot.

then I tried the upgrade-iso, mounted the iso, run setup, it installed itself.

upon first reboot, I noticed the network is not getting IP address. shutdown / start again, it appeared ok

now, I am heading to installing the latest preview

How To Use PowerShell To Retrieve Basic System Information

http://redmondmag.com/articles/2015/01/23/powershell-to-retrieve-info.aspx

Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object  Caption, InstallDate, ServicePackMajorVersion, OSArchitecture, BootDevice,  BuildNumber, CSName | FL

PS C:\Users\mike.YANG11> Get-CimInstance Win32_OperatingSystem | Select-Object  Caption, InstallDate, ServicePackMajorVe
rsion, OSArchitecture, BootDevice,  BuildNumber, CSName | FL


Caption                 : Microsoft Windows 8.1 Enterprise
InstallDate             : 27/08/2014 5:15:14 p.m.
ServicePackMajorVersion : 0
OSArchitecture          : 64-bit
BootDevice              : \Device\HarddiskVolume2
BuildNumber             : 9600
CSName                  : MKSHADOW