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Unable to remove Mailbox Database or Uninstall Exchange
I had an issue removing Exchange 2010 today at a customer site. A very generic issue occurred when attempting to perform the uninstall where the following error was generated.Error:Uninstall cannot...
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WSUS Console Freezes when the Server Cleanup Wizard
A common administration task of maintaining a WSUS server is cleaning up old legacy updates no longer required running the Server Cleanup Wizard.If you have a large amount of updates which need...
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WSUS Clients not Reporting or downloading updates
I had a large customer where all clients stopped downloading updates in November 2016. Even after building a new WSUS server, clients would not update.Clients were reporting the following error:Code:...
View ArticleFor Each Line in Text File Do - Batch Script
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 below.I have needed FOR EACH, DO batch scripts numerous times...
View ArticleSecurity Vulnerability in Azure AD Connect
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 do it again.An exploit in the new Microsoft cloud...
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Exchange 2016 or Office 365 Shared Mailbox Not Updating
I was addressing an interesting issue for a customer today where a user with a shared mailbox would not automatically update. Their primary mailbox updated correctly, only the shared mailbox did not...
View Article.NET Framework 4.7 and Exchange Servers
.NET Framework 4.7 is currently not supported on Microsoft Exchange Servers. This is heavily documented on the Internet with many articles such as the one...
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Forcing Azure AD Connect to Sync
The new Azure AD Connect Tool was released in April 2017 to replace the legacy DirSync utility for maintaining Identity Management with Office 365.This new tool syncs much more frequently then the...
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Software no longer displaying in Software Center - SCCM 1702
I had an issue at a customer where software was no longer appearing in Software Center on the workstations. Please note - this screenshot was taken after I fixed the issue.After much troubleshooting,...
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Exchange Managed Availability Spamming the Internet
I ran into an issue at a customer site where Exchange Managed Availability was spamming the Internet with large amounts of outbound to the Internet. These "Undeliverable: Inbound proxy probe" NDR...
View ArticleIn-Place Hold vs Litigation Hold vs Outlook Protect Rules
In this post I am going to address what the difference between In-Place Hold vs Litigation Hold vs Outlook Protect Rules in Microsoft Exchange.Litigation HoldLitigation Hold was first introduce in...
View ArticleWhat is the difference between Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy and...
Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy and Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy - two separate commands which perform similar actions for similar purposes. But what is the difference and when would you use one over the...
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Removing Icons in Windows 10 1703 after Removing Bloatware with...
We had an issue creating a Windows 10 image at another customer site after upgrading the Image to 1703. The 1703 update introduced yet more bloatware.After removing the additional bloatware from our...
View ArticleSlow Internet Surfing on Cisco 891fw
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 fine.The issue was MTU.To fix this, on my VLAN that I assigned to my...
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Direct Access clients can ping but nothing else
My company runs a Direct Access server on Server 2012 R2 which has been in production for over 2 years and is accessed on a daily basis by a dozen clients.Two weeks ago around the 14th of August, 2017,...
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Outlook is unable to connect to the proxy server. (Error Code 0)
I'm currently in the process of performing another Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 migration for a customer. When moving the first mailbox to Exchange 2016, the following error occurred:There is a...
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How to Patch Windows Server 2003 with Error 0x80072EFF
I have a customer who has 3 forests all running Exchange 2003 on Windows Server 2003... yes in the year 2016 (almost 2017). Before moving to Exchange 2010 --> 2016 we are required to consolidate...
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Autodiscover: Outlook Provider - 6001 Error for one user only
We had issues with Autodiscover with only one mailbox in our environment.When we ran the Test-OutlookWebServices against the problematic mailbox, we got an error.Test-OutlookWebServices -Identity...
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Outlook Error - There is a problem with the proxy server's security...
During an Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange 2016 CU5 upgrade, some Outlook clients intermittently received the following certificate error message:There is a problem with the proxy server's security...
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Preparing Windows 10 Enterprise Edition 1703 for Enterprise Deployment with...
This blog post goes through what is required to get Windows 10 Enterprise Edition 1703 ready for deployment in an enterprise environment with Internet Explorer.In Windows 10 Enterprise Edition 1607, a...
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