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It’s here! Windows 10 free upgrade reservation appeared on my Windows 7 and 8 machines this morning.  Learn more about windows 10 upgrade process here

Windows10

Windows 10

Now the questions is do you want to upgrade now?

I have been using Windows 10 preview since it was open to the public and got the latest update over the weekend.  Honestly i do not believe it is ready for consumer consumption, it is a great Operating System (OS) but still needs some more tweaking for it to be a perfect OS.

If you do decided to go with the upgrade Microsoft has tried to make it as seamless as possible, in just a few clicks your reservation is complete and you suppose to get Windows 10 upgrade like a windows update when tit becomes available on July 29th.

Windows 10

Windows 10

Hopefuly this will be better than Windows 8 release, Microsoft still failing to realize that you can only make a first impression once after that we looking at awkward OS version numbering (e.g. 10.1).

Learn more about windows 10

 

About a month ago, power surge brought down my W08E10 environment. This weekend was finally able to assess the damage, it turns out 4 seagate hard drives were toasted which included both data drives and their backup. So that environment is gone for good but replacing hard drive and using current hardware to expand my W12E13 environment.

 

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This article covers adding a domain to a MS Exchange 2013 on-premises environment. Steps include but not limited to;

MX Record Update
Adding UPN Suffix in AD
Adding domain to Exchange
Email address policy
Test.

 

 

Are you tired of all the ceremony it entitles to connect to Office 365 (O365) environment via PowerShell?

Then you are in luck, i have been using this for a while just realized not everybody got it this easy, so I am sharing the wealth.

This article covers using a simple script I concocted that will connect you to an Office 365 (O365) environment with as little as a 2 clicks.

O365-Connect

 

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