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 Vi...
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The Dirty Little Secret about P2V Migration with System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Physical to Virtual Migration has been around for a long time ever since companies started making the transition to Virtualisation as a stan...
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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 ...
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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. Startin...
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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 generat...
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Outloook 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...
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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 ho...
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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 H...
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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...
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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 20...
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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...
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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 th...
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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 starte...
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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 servic...
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VawTrak 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 infe...
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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 ...
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Remove 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 ser...
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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 wil...
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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 pa...
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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: Application Source: MSExchangeTransp...
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Useless router WiFi speeds and maximum Surface Pro 3 Wifi speed
I got puzzled last week by my Surface Pro 3, which usually connects at 60-90Mbps to my router, regardless of which band (2.4 or 5Ghz I choos...
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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 propert...
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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...
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