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When setting up a new Lenovo X230 for a customer I had problems finding the correct driver for an SM BUS Controller.  The hardware had the ...

After upgrading to Internet Explorer 10 when accessing a 2008 R2 Remote Desktop Services (RDS) RD Web Access, we noticed the icons no longe...

I am currently in the process of a delegation project for one of my customers running Exchange Server 2007.  My customer requires that all ...

From Exchange 2010 SP1 onwards, Exchange Autodiscover now has the ability to automatically add a mailbox to a user account which has full c...

When running a DCDiag at a customer site today I had the following error occur. Warning:  Attribute userAccountControl of DC is: 0x82020 ...

One of my customers experienced an issue where Outlook clients randomly lost their HTTPS connection to the Exchange server.  All Outlook cl...

In this article we are going to look at how to repair a corrupt PST file using the Outlook PST Repair tool created by Stellar Phoenix. Be...

You want to determine if an Email address has been already configured on an Exchange server.  To do this you need to use the following cmdl...

Today we required the ability to port forward two public IP addresses both listening on TCP25 to the same internal IP address listening on...

Today one of my customers was listed on the SpamHaus XBL list.  The Spamhaus Exploits Block List (XBL) is a realtime database of IP address...

Today when attempting to perform a System State backup on a Domain Controller I received the following error message: The Windows Backup ...

I was about to do a large number of Active Directory changes on a domain controller and needed to grab a system state backup before proceed...

I found what appears to be a bug today with Microsoft FTP on IIS 7.5 running on Windows Server 2008 R2 where I would get a false error mess...

I am currently in the process of deploying the open source Nagios monitoring platform for a customer to provide them the ability to monitor...

Saftey Net is the new version of Transport Dumpster which was first introduced in Exchange 2007 and was continued in Exchange 2010.  I wrot...

This is a short post to explain what msDS- attributes are in Active Directory.  As an administrator responsible for maintaining your compan...

With the release of Group Policy Management Console (GPMC) on server 2003, Group Policy had many sample scripts which were very handy when ...

We experienced a very interesting problem on a Windows Server 2003 file server in which all SMB shares were removed from the file server up...

I experienced an issue at a customer site with with a new Remote Desktop Services deployment on Windows Server 2008 R2 when building a Ser...

I had an issue at a customer today where a new WSUS server was not patching clients.  I went through the WSUS configuration, all was correc...

Today a customer had a few Windows 7 workstations which were  not receiving software which is pushed through group policy.  RSOP.msc and gp...

A customer asked me today if they can upgrade to their domain controllers to Windows Server 2012 whilst running Exchange Server 2003. Exc...

One of my friends purchased a Windows 8 computer and complained to me that no matter what they do the machine will not shutdown through use...

I had a bit of a drama finding a driver for the following hardware ID today on a customers laptop. PCI\VEN_168C&DEV_002B&SUBSYS_0...

Today I attempted to replace a certificate on a Citrix Gateway.  When replacing the certificate in the Secure Gateway Configuration Wizard ...

Some of my customers have been asking me lately about some of the new In-Place features of Exchange 2013.  In-Place is a new buzz word whic...

Microsoft Exchange 2013 has a new monitoring and alerting engine built into the product called Managed Availability.  Managed Availability ...