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The SMTP availability of the Receive connector Default was low
In Exchange 2013 CU9 you may start seeing the following error message more often.Log Name: ApplicationSource: MSExchangeTransportDate: 10/09/2015 12:15:21 PMEvent ID: 1040Task...
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Howto Decrypting an Active Directory Password
In this post I will show a tool which makes decrypting Active Directory passwords easy. It is important to note decrypting highly secure passwords takes a long time and is not always achievable within...
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Regaining Access to an SQL Instance
After a previous employee left an organisation, no one had access to an SQL Instance and the SA Password was unknown. In this article I will show you how to regain access to an SQL Instance.This...
View ArticleRemove all Printers Deployed from a specific Print Server with Powershell
I had a customer which had deployed printers from a legacy print server utilising scripts. They have recently built a new 2012 R2 print server where they deployed the printers utilising Print...
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Quick access in Windows 10 with Direct Access
Quick access is a feature in Windows 10 which lets you quickly view recently opened documents and folders. This is handy for users to gain access to files they access on a regular basis. On the...
View ArticleVawTrak Trojan
Today I was diagnosing why a clients Internet was running so slow. After tracing the traffic I found it was one Windows 7 PC which was infected with a virus. The following processes were running on...
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Websense Appliance Services Not Starting after Hard Shutdown
When a Websense v5000 or v10000 appliance is forcefully shutdown due to power loss or hard system failure, upon restart the Filtering service, Policy service, User service and Usage monitor can fail to...
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Removing Large Amounts of Spam from Exchange Server Queue Database
A customer running Exchange 2010 experienced a large number of spam emails in the submission queue (over 80,000).All the Spam Emails started with "ID#ALERT#", as a result we ran the following command...
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Exchange 2013 Cluster Issues 0x80071736
A customer of mine went upgraded one node of a two node DAG from Exchange 2013 CU7 to Exchange 2013 CU10. After installing the update on the first cluster node, they contacted us complaining...
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Exchange 2013 421 4.3.2 Service not active
A customer of mine upgraded an Exchange 2013 cluster node from Exchange 2013 CU7 to Exchange 2010 CU10. After the upgrade, emails failed to come in on the cluster node with the following SMTP error...
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Exchange 2013 POP3 Proxy Inactive
A customer complained that POP3 was no longer working. After looking into this, it turned out that PopProxy was Inactive on the Exchange 2013 server. As to why it was inactive is unknown.To start the...
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Enable Firewall Logging on Windows
Are your packets being dropped by Windows Firewall? Want an insight into what is going on? Simply open local group policy on a workstation / server (gpedit.msc) or configure a GPO in Group Policy...
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Active Directory Issues - Network Drives Not Mapping
A customer of mine raised an issue in regards network drives not being mapped for users. This includes drives mapped via Group Policy and Home Drives mapped via the NT4 Home Drive option of the Active...
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Active Directory Topology Diagrammer Error
I'm running Windows 10 with Visio 2016 (both x64 builds). I needed to draw out the topology from a customers Active Directory domain however when attempting to draw the topology using the free...
View ArticleOutloook 2010 Starting in Safe Mode?
Microsoft recently released a bad Windows Update (KB3114409) which caused Outlook 2010 to start loading in safe mode for multiple clients of mine. This update has recently been recalled by Microsoft...
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MSExchange ADAccess EventID 4027
A customer of mine contacted me today regarding an EventID 4027 from MSExchange ADAccess they wanted resolved. This error was being generated on all Exchange 2013 servers in their cluster.After...
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Common DCDIAG Error with NCSecDesc
When running a DCDiag on 2008 or 2008 R2 domain controllers, it is very common to see the following error when running a dcdiag.exe.Starting test: NCSecDesc Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN...
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Event Viewer Tasks
I just want to touch against a feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 - 2012 which I believe is very cool. Windows Event Viewer has the ability to launch tasks automatically when a particular error occurs....
View ArticleThe Dirty Little Secret about P2V Migration with System Center Virtual...
Physical to Virtual Migration has been around for a long time ever since companies started making the transition to Virtualisation as a standard back in 2008 with the release of VMware ESX 3.x quickly...
View ArticleData Deduplication Enhancement in Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows Server 2012 R2 has a new feature which I can see very handy in the real world especially with VDI environments which have lots of Virtual Hard Disk files (VHD's) of similar nature.In Server...
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