When a user is on litigation hold in Exchange Online, their mailbox content is preserved in a read-only state to meet legal and regulatory requirements. While this is a useful feature for ensuring that all mailbox content is preserved, it... Read More
Active Directory (AD) is a crucial component of any Windows network, and ensuring that it is up-to-date is critical to maintaining security and performance. One aspect of AD that requires regular maintenance is the replication of data between domain controllers.... Read More
Recently we encountered an issue where a client was using Exchange Online authenticating using ADFS/SSO. Issue: Outlook would not connect to Exchange Online after changing the user’s password in Active Directory. Troubleshooting: We ran Outlook in Online mode, this remedied... Read More
I have seen in some cases that after enabling the correct telephony policy that users still do not have the “Video” button within the menu of the Lync client’s IM window. This is usually caused by a GPO of some... Read More
It would seem Microsoft fixed the blunder that was MS13-061 that changed settings for the search infrastructure, placing the content index for all databases into a failed state. They have assured us that they “tested” this release. They have released... Read More
In this tutorial we will be setting up a Certificate Authority (CA) on a domain controller running Server 2012. In this lab the functional level of the domain and forest are set to 2012. Install the CA Role Begin by... Read More
I was working with a client today on decommissioning an Exchange 2007 box after a successful upgrade to Exchange 2010. During the final phase of the project, I was uninstalling Exchange 2007 from the server and saw the processwas taking... Read More
Recently I had an issue removing a .vmdk from an old Datastore. VSphere was not allowing the deletion to occur because the file was still in use. Odd. Using SSH to the host console and some *nix commands, I was able to... Read More
Recently I encountered an issue with a client where VEAM backups were causing the DAG to fail over. This has led me to question whether or not VEAM is truly supported by Microsoft. I’ll need to scour for some Microsoft... Read More