Clint Boessen's Blog

A customer of mine contacted me complaining Exchange was down, OWA failed, and all Outlook clients could not connect.  They were running Ex...

There is a very good documented procedure for migrating public folders to modern public folders on Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016.  This ar...

In a recent Exchange 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 18 to Exchange 2016 CU5 migration for a client, we had issues with some users prompting for use...

This blog post goes through what is required to get Windows 10 Enterprise Edition 1703 ready for deployment in an enterprise environment wi...

During an Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange 2016 CU5 upgrade, some Outlook clients intermittently received the following certificate error mess...

We had issues with Autodiscover with only one mailbox in our environment. When we ran the Test-OutlookWebServices against the problemati...

I'm currently in the process of performing another Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 migration for a customer.  When moving the first mail...

I was doing a new config for a Cisco 891fw but had extremely slow internet surfing speeds. When doing a speed test however, speed was fin...

We had an issue creating a Windows 10 image at another customer site after upgrading the Image to 1703.  The 1703 update introduced yet mor...

Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy and Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy - two separate commands which perform similar actions for similar purposes.  But ...

In this post I am going to address what the difference between In-Place Hold vs Litigation Hold vs Outlook Protect Rules in Microsoft Excha...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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