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Outlook Clients continuously prompt for username and password - Exchange 2016...
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 username and password continuously after their mailbox was moved...
View ArticleModern Public Folders and Mailbox Database Quotas
There is a very good documented procedure for migrating public folders to modern public folders on Exchange 2013 or Exchange 2016. This article can be found under the following TechNet...
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An error occured while using SSL configuration for endpoint 0.0.0.0:444
A customer of mine contacted me complaining Exchange was down, OWA failed, and all Outlook clients could not connect. They were running Exchange 2013 CU13.In the system logs, the following error was...
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winload.exe 0xc000000e Error restoring from Shadow Protect
In this post I'm going to address the winload.exe 0xc000000e error when restoring an image with StorageCraft ShadowProtect Recovery Environment. I experienced this error when attempting to restore a...
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Finding a Device in SCCM for Unknown Computer TS Deployment
1. Currently I have a task sequence deployed to the "All Unknown x86/ x64 Computers" device collection. SCCM will only PXE boot machines it has never seen before in its database.2. I PXE boot the new...
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Outlook 2016 Connects First Time, Prompts for Password Every Other Time
A customer of mine recently deployed Outlook 2016. The customer had an issue where they could create a new Outlook 2016 Profile, but after the Outlook Profile was created and Outlook was closed, the...
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KMS Activation Error 0xc004f074
I recently had issues deploying a new KMS server to activate Windows 10 LTSB 2016 at a customer. We deployed LTSB to remove all the bloatware from the Windows Store, Edge and other unwanted items like...
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Remote Desktop Services 2016 Microsoft Office Not Aligning
I came across an issue with Remote Desktop Services 2016 on Server 2016 where Microsoft Office applications did not align properly when deployed via a RemoteApp.A small bar on the left and top of the...
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SCCM - TS environment is not initialized
I was in a process of upgrading a customer to the latest SCCM 1710 build for rolling out Windows 10 across the companies network.To upgrade to SCCM 1710 you must first upgrade to SCCM 1702 then do the...
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Binding a Certificate breaks IMAP or POP on Exchange - NO LOGIN failed error
A customer of mine running Exchange 2013 CU17 went to renew the Exchange Certificate after it expired. The customer even though they were not using secure IMAP bound the new certificate to IMAP, POP...
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Azure AD Domain Services Overview - Removing the need for Domain Controllers...
Late 2017 Microsoft released some very cool technology in Azure called Azure AD Domain Services. This service provides Azure Customers with Virtual Machines in Azure the ability to use Domain Services...
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Third Party Transport Agents delaying Emails and Crashing the Transport...
I had a customer experiencing extensive delays receiving email through the Exchange Transport stack both for internal and external mail relay.When we ran the Get-Queue or Get-Message cmdlets, the...
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432 4.3.2 STOREDRV.Deliver recipient thread limit exceeded
I had an issue with an environment with a mixture of Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2016 servers. All mail to one of the Exchange 2010 servers was getting stuck in queue and not delivered.This is a very...
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OWA and ECP doesn't log in after Renewing Certificate
I had an issue on an Exchange 2013 cluster renewing a certificate on the Client Access servers. The current certificate was about to expire and the customer provided me with a newly created wildcard...
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Excluding TEMP Directory from User Profile Disks in Remote Desktop Services
I had a customer with a line of business application attempting to open PDF files on a Server 2016 RD Session Host with User Profile Disks configured.When a user attempts to open a PDF document within...
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Troubleshooting Account Lockout's
I often get asked by customers for assistance with troubleshooting account lockout issues, where a user constantly gets locked out but IT doesn't know how they are getting locked out or what device...
View ArticleForcefully Reseeding an Exchange Server on Exchange 2010
One of our customers had an Exchange 2010 DAG with databases on two servers. One of the databases could not be mounted. Before calling us, the customer removed one of the servers as a database copy....
View ArticlePowerShell List Local Administrators on all servers
I needed to list all Local Administrators on all servers at a company as part of a report.I could not find a good PowerShell script which queried the server to see if it was online, then send a WMI...
View ArticleLimiting Login Restrictions to Azure AD to Regions
I was running a cloud enablement workshop today for a customer to lay out the options of providing SaaS applications an Identity Provider for SAML2 or OATH2 authentication. We went through the various...
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Changing a Custom Domain from AD FS to Password Sync in Azure
In my test lab tenancy avantlab.onmicrosoft.com I needed to convert a domain avantlab.com.au from using AD FS to PasswordSync. The AD FS infrastructure i had setup no longer existed and i needed to...
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