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Hi All, Sorry for my lack of blog posts lately. As I was doing my SPLA reports, I decided I would share with everyone the SQL query that I am starting to use to provide me a list of CRM users for both SPLA and billing. It is a query you can run in SQL Management Studio connected to the database server...

The guys over at the Sharepoint Team blog have given us all a little insight into the upcoming Service Pack for Sharepoint, Head on over and have a read . If your curretly hosting with Sharepoint, it's guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Some highlights for hosters include Windows Server 2008...

As an alternate database, MPS/HMC/WBH stores details about some of the related objects in Active Directory. None of these details are stored in the MPS SQL databases from what I can see. These details are called service pointers. If you look in adsiedit.msc you will find them under the customers OU in...

In Active Directory there is an attribute named "otherWellKnownObjects" which is not very well documented but put simply is used to reference other related objects. When talking about otherWellKnownObjects you will also hear about a term "Well Known GUID". Well Known GUIDs define...

When migrating from Microsoft HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0 you may come across a little utility named DTMU.exe. For those who are interested in what the DTMU tool does or are trying to work out what it is doing in the case that it fails, here you are; DTMU –PrepareAD Renames the "CN=MPS Server Config Entity...