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HyperV Network Types
Microsoft HyperV servers have three Network Types you can assign to Virtual Machines and Virtual Switches.PrivateInternalExternalThis is shown below on both a virtual machine and a virtual switch...
View ArticleTest Application for Group Policy Software Installation Troubleshooting
Sometimes when diagnosing problems with Group Policy software deployment, it is good to try a different application to rule out issues with the application package your trying to deploy. One...
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Direct Access Clients Cannot Establish Network Connectivity after NLS Becomes...
In Microsoft Direct Access Deployments, you need to configure a server (or server cluster) on your network to act as a Network Location Server (NLS). The NLS is simply a Web Server with a HTTPS server...
View ArticlePhantom Calls to Cisco Phone with Hosted VOIP Service - How to Lockdown
An issue was experienced where a number of VOIP phones on a customer network were experiencing phantom calls from the Internet. A phantom call generally occurs when someone is scanning for SIP devices...
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VSS Snapshot error. The maximum number of snapshots for this volume has been...
Today on a customers SBS 2008 server still running Backup Exec 2010, backups started failing with the following error. - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "\\JCC-SBS\Microsoft Information Store\First...
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Public Folder Migration Error:Property expression isn't valid
When migrating public folders from legacy Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 environments to Exchange 2013, you may receive the following error message:Error: Property expression "Anglicare RT" isn't...
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Repairing ContentIndexState on DAG Nodes in Exchange 2013
In Exchange Server 2013, sometimes the content index state can go corrupt on databases. When this occurs, Exchange 2013 FAST search technology is no longer available for the database meaning people...
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PowerShell - Find All Files Beginning With
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 entire shared drive was encrypted and users were no longer...
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Windows 8 Unable to Connect through RD Gateway
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 using a Remote Desktop Gateway (RD Gateway).I tested this...
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How to Remove SID History from Active Directory Object
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 you attempt to use standard Microsoft tools such as ADSIEdit to...
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Unable to Remove Mailbox Permission in Exchange 2013
After a cross-forest domain migration, a customer complained that a number of their users have random SIDs of unknown accounts linked to their mailbox as shown in the following screenshot. This object...
View ArticleShared Mailboxes and Sent Items in Microsoft Exchange
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 exposure out there in the real world however is a feature in demand by...
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Testing GRE Protocol with PPTP VPN connections
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 blocked on network infrastructure is one of the most common issues...
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SSTP VPN Bug with Server 2012 R2
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 the config as per MS best practice with a valid public...
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Legacy File Servers with User Profile Disks
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 utilise Server 2012 R2 file servers. This is due to two...
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Newly Built Hyper-V 2012 R2 Server Blue Screening
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 critical and security and critical as of 23/06/2015. The...
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The folders cannot be queried. Element not found.
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 the DFS management console to add the remote server as a...
View ArticleDNS Host A Record Being Deleted on Server Reboot
Our company Avantgarde Technologies was performing a domain controller upgrade for a client from Server 2008 R2 domain controllers to Server 2012 R2. After deploying the new domain controllers we went...
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MAPI NSPI Issues with Exchange 2013
A customer running two Exchange 2013 CU9 multi-role servers in a cluster with an F5 load balancer contacted me this morning reporting issues where they could not create new Outlook Profiles for users....
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Enable Split Tunneling on Windows 10 VPN Connections
In previous versions of Windows Server, Split Tunneling was enabled by removing the default gateway from the IPv4 settings under the properties of a Windows PPTP, L2TP or SSTP VPN connection. This was...
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