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Chocolatey in the workplace

I talked previously about using Chocolatey for home use. It makes building a PC at home nice, simple and fast. It makes supporting non-technical friends and family nice and easy, ensuring you can build their computers how they want and keep them up-to-date with just a few simple commands (that can even be put in the scheduler, so neither you or they have to worry about them). We’ve recently just completed a Windows 10 rollout at my college.

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Exchange 2013 notes Pt. 1 - Certificates

I’m currently heading an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 migration at work and I’m going to share the thoughts and notes that I’ve made on the process so far. The actual install process was fairly painless to be fair, with one CAS and two Mailbox servers currently configured, but I have encountered one problem with certificates that I thought I would share: We required a new Unified Comms certificate as part of the rollout, so I used the Exchange Admin Centre (EAC/ECP) to generate a Certificate Signing Request on the CAS server.

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