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Monday, September 26, 2016

Cisco UCS Blades KVM Not Working

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I needed to access a Cisco UCS Blade enclosure at one of my customers after a major ESX failure.  When attempting to access the KVM over th...
Sunday, September 18, 2016

0x80190194 OAB Error when Migrating to Exchange 2016

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When migrating from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016, I encountered an error 0x80190194 when downloading the Offline Address Book on workstat...
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Thursday, September 15, 2016

Bug Creating Frontend Transport Receive Connectors in Exchange 2016 CU2

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There is a bug creating Frontend Transport Connectors from Exchange Administrative Center in Exchange 2016 CU2. Currently it is not possi...
Monday, September 12, 2016

Deploying Exchange 2016 into an Exchange 2013 Organisation with MAPI over HTTPS Enabled

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This issue may be encountered when migrating to Exchange 2016 from Exchange 2013 when MAPI over HTTPS is enabled.  The default Exchange 201...
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Saturday, August 27, 2016

Certificate Warnings when upgrading to Exchange 2016

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Because Exchange Server runs most of its configuration at an "Organisation Level" adding new Exchange Servers to an existing Exch...
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016

The Danger of the Local Administrator Account

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The local administrator account resides on every Windows Server and is usually in an enabled state.  This account is a major security vulne...
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Thursday, July 21, 2016

Error downloading unsupported File Types with IIS

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A customer of mine was complained that when users attempted to download unknown file types, they received a "404 - File or directory n...
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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

DFSR Event ID 6404 - The Replicated Folder has an Invalid Local Path

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I was attempting to add a new DFSR node to an existing DFSR Replication Group consisting of 17 file servers.  When adding the server the fo...
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Tuesday, July 19, 2016

DFSR Backlog Count Not Reducing - Server 2012 R2

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Microsoft recently released an update which causes DFSRS.exe CPU usage to hit 100%. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3156418 I wr...
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Sunday, July 10, 2016

DFSR Service 100% CPU Usage

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I had an enterprise DFSR customer of mine with 17 File Server nodes complaining that CPU utilisation was at 100% on numerous DFSR nodes in ...
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Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Bug with Windows 7 and Access Based Enumeration

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I encountered an interesting bug with Windows 7 workstations with Access Based Enumeration enabled on a SMB Share and DFS Namespace running...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

IMAP4 Frontend with Exchange 2013

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A customer of Avantgarde Technologies was having issues with IMAP4 on Exchange 2013.  In Exchange 2013 the IMAP Role has changed and how h...
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Tuesday, June 21, 2016

Modern Public Folders in Multi-Tenant Environments

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Modern Public Folders is a new feature introduced in Exchange 2013 and also available in Exchange 2016 to allow companies to leverage Datab...
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Friday, June 17, 2016

Setting Delivery Restrictions and Exchange Administration Center

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Delivery Restrictions is a feature of Exchange Server which has been around since Exchange 2000 and allows companies to easily limit who ca...
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Exchange 2016 CU2 - Automatically Move Exchange Databases back to Preferred Server

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In Exchange 2016 CU2, Microsoft has released a new feature which has been a request of mine since the release of Exchange Database Availabi...
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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Reduce your IT Support costs by purchasing quality hardware upfront

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During my career in the IT Industry, I see many small business entities purchase cheap consumer grade hardware from a local computer store ...
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Tuesday, June 7, 2016

.NET Framework 4.6.1 and Exchange 2013 / 2016

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Currently with Exchange 2013 CU12 and Exchange 2016 CU1, it is not supported to install .NET Framework 4.6.1 as it causes issues databases ...
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Monday, May 2, 2016

Windows 7 Computers Rebooting During Day for Updates

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A customer was having an issue where Windows 7 computers randomly rebooted during the day for Windows Updates without providing a prompt fo...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016

Windows 7 SP1 hanging on Checking for Updates

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Trying to perform a simple task of installing Windows 7 x64 Enterprise with Service Pack 1 on some virtual machines in my lab to test a pro...
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Microsoft Word Performance Issues - KB3114717

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A customer contacted me mid-February complaining of significant performance issues with Microsoft Word 2013 SP1 (32bit).  When users copied...
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Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Searching RBL Agent Logs on Microsoft Exchange

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In this blog post I will show you a quick way to search through large amounts of Real Time Blacklists logs on an Exchange Server.  This art...
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Wednesday, March 9, 2016

Remove Run menu from Start Menu - Policy Bug

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Today I stumbled across a bug with Windows 8.1 / 2012 R2 with the Group Policy setting: User Configuration ->Policies -> Administra...
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Monday, February 15, 2016

Windows cannot move object because Access is denied

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I came across an interesting error today when attempting to move a security group to a new location in Active Directory. Windows cannot m...
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Clint Boessen
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Solution Architect
MCSE: Server Infrastructure
MCSE: Productivity
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

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