Monday, July 17, 2017

Exchange Managed Availability Spamming the Internet

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I ran into an issue at a customer site where Exchange Managed Availability was spamming the Internet with large amounts of outbound to the ...

Software no longer displaying in Software Center - SCCM 1702

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I had an issue at a customer where software was no longer appearing in Software Center on the workstations.  Please note - this screenshot ...

Forcing Azure AD Connect to Sync

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The new Azure AD Connect Tool was released in April 2017 to replace the legacy DirSync utility for maintaining Identity Management with Off...
Wednesday, July 12, 2017

.NET Framework 4.7 and Exchange Servers

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.NET Framework 4.7 is currently not supported on Microsoft Exchange Servers. This is heavily documented on the Internet with many articles ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2017

Exchange 2016 or Office 365 Shared Mailbox Not Updating

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I was addressing an interesting issue for a customer today where a user with a shared mailbox would not automatically update.  Their primar...

Security Vulnerability in Azure AD Connect

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If you have recently upgraded your DirSync synchronization tool to Azure AD Connect to get your contacts up to Office 365, you will need to...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

For Each Line in Text File Do - Batch Script

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Below is a simple batch script which takes each line of a text file and lets you use it in a script.  I have provided an example of this be...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

WSUS Clients not Reporting or downloading updates

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I had a large customer where all clients stopped downloading updates in November 2016.  Even after building a new WSUS server, clients woul...
Friday, April 21, 2017

WSUS Console Freezes when the Server Cleanup Wizard

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A common administration task of maintaining a WSUS server is cleaning up old legacy updates no longer required running the Server Cleanup W...
Friday, March 31, 2017

Unable to remove Mailbox Database or Uninstall Exchange

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I had an issue removing Exchange 2010 today at a customer site.  A very generic issue occurred when attempting to perform the uninstall whe...
Sunday, March 12, 2017

Error 0x800f0922 attempting to reprovision DHCP Server

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We needed to re-provision a DHCP server running Windows Server 2012 R2 which was recently demoted and the role removed.  When attempting to...
Wednesday, February 22, 2017

Pop and Crackling in Ableton 9.7.1 with Serum

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 I was having many issues with crackling on Ableton 9.7.1 running the Serum VST even though my CPU usage was only 20-30%.  After extensive ...
Thursday, February 16, 2017

Kerberos Error Connecting to Exchange 2010

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Using an old user account at a customer site, I had the following error when attempting to connect to Exchange Management Console (EMC). ...
Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Disabling Modern App Bloatware on Windows 10 Image

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Windows 10 comes with much unwanted bloatware in the form of "ModernApps".  These apps include: Netflix Pandora Skype Preview...

Disable RC4 on Windows Servers

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The 13 year old RC4 cipher exploit is enabled by default on Server 2012 R2.  If you have a IIS server using a digital certificate facing th...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Displaying full values of Attributes in PowerShell

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In Windows PowerShell often when you are running queries, PowerShell will only show a limited value for objects which contain large attribu...
Thursday, January 19, 2017

MSExchange ActiveSync Event ID 1016

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Customer with a single Exchange 2010 completely down.  The following error was spammed throughout the event log: Log Name:      Applicati...