It becomes clear that Acronis didnt released build of Acronis Backup & Recovery, that will work on Windows Server 2012. Actually - support was not declared, but we can start Backup & Recovery on 2012 ... with a little trick.

Sympthoms: after Backup & Recovery installation, management console didnt start with reference to "Acronis Managed Machine Service" (the service didnt start) (service name - MMS).

In case if you re broken default Extensions settings in Microsoft Enterprise Certificate Authority, you can check the default settings here. I was needed this information when I deleted LDAP distribution points.

Dont know, how is it going in your companies, but our users can call to any direction if they need it. In case of some issues, I can always apply restrictive policy.

By default, when we add a user into Lync system, Enterprise Voice is disabled. Here is my way, how I solve this problem. You can also add this script to the script that enables new users in Lync.

Sometimes, in troubleshooting and/or learning new software you need to find specific string or value in SQL database.

Here is the script to run in Query Editor over the base to find some string. In "set @search_string = 'what.you.are.searching.for';" in quotes you must type in what you search.

The script is compatible at least with SQL Server 2005/2008 ... hopefully with later versions also.

In Microsoft SQL Server 2005/2008/R2 truncation of transaction log is different than in SQL Server 2000.

While working with address book in Lync Server, sometimes its very important and convinient to know, what exactly Lync Server have in its database regarding address book. You will need this, for example, when you working with Active Directory attributes that will be shown in contact card in Lync client.