Clint Boessen's Blog

Our company Avantgarde Technologies was performing a domain controller upgrade for a client from Server 2008 R2 domain controllers to Serve...

In in the process of setting up a new DFS Namespace server at a remote site for a customer, I faced an issue where I was unable to utilize ...

We experienced an issue with a newly built Hyper-V 2012 R2 server running on Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacentre edition with all the latest ...

I have been involved in a number of Remote Desktop Services 2012 R2 deployments and from my experiences, I recommend to my clients to only ...

Tonight I stumbled across what appears to be a bug/glitch with Server 2012 R2 when attempting to setup an SSTP VPN connection.  I completed...

In this post I am going to show you how to test GRE Protocol is open and working when setting up PPTP VPN Servers.  GRE Protocol being bloc...

In this post I'm going to focus on an Exchange feature introduced back Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 4 which has not had heavy exposu...

After a cross-forest domain  migration, a customer complained that a number of their users have random SIDs of unknown accounts linked to t...

In this blog post I'm going to show you how to remove the SIDHistory from an object in Active Directory after a domain migration.  If y...

A customer of mine today logged a support case stating users on Windows 8 or Windows 8.1 were unable to connect to remote computers by usin...

A customer of mine was hit with another one of those Viruses which encrypt all data on shared drives mapping back to the file server.  The ...

In Exchange Server 2013, sometimes the content index state can go corrupt on databases.  When this occurs, Exchange 2013 FAST search techno...

When migrating public folders from legacy Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 environments to Exchange 2013, you may receive the following erro...

Today on a customers SBS 2008 server still running Backup Exec 2010, backups started failing with the following error.  - AOFO: Initializ...

An issue was experienced where a number of VOIP phones on a customer network were experiencing phantom calls from the Internet.  A phantom ...

In Microsoft Direct Access Deployments, you need to configure a server (or server cluster) on your network to act as a Network Location Ser...

Sometimes when diagnosing problems with Group Policy software deployment, it is good to try a different application to rule out issues with...

Microsoft HyperV servers have three Network Types you can assign to Virtual Machines and Virtual Switches. Private Internal External ...

I had an issue with a third party email filtering product GFI MailEssentials 2014 SR2 during an Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2013 migration.  ...

Back at the MVP Summit 2012 in Redmond, Microsoft announced to the Exchange MVP community that in Exchange 2013 they are going to pull the ...

After deploying a Remote Desktop Services environment on Server 2012 R2, users complained of an issue where they were no longer able to lau...

I had a customer where Exchange 2013 FAST Search Technology failed and rebuilding the search indexes for the databases did not resolve the ...