Author: Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to elevate an application.

The below tips were captured from a Windows 10 build 1709 machine.

The below should work for most applications – if you find one that does not, please leave a comment.

 

Additional Instance

In this example we have a cmd prompt o… Read the rest “Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications”

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Renewing AD FS Certificates – Updated Guidance

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

TLS certificates come and go.  By their nature they have a set life span and then they must be renewed.  While this is nothing new, I’ve being doing this since the 1990s, the process may become a little more frequent for some customers as the industry is eliminating three year certificates see 3-Year Certificates to Be Eliminated in Industry-Wide Change for example.

In the posts for deploying AD FS … Read the rest “Renewing AD FS Certificates – Updated Guidance”

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Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The below was an exercise in paying attention to detail for one of my customers.  They were in the middle of an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration and were attempting to install the first Exchange 2016 server into the organisation. Windows Server 2016 was being used as the OS for these new servers.

However it was not going swimmingly.

As part of the pre-work they were installing the OS, applying Window… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing”

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Exchange 2010 Public Folder Migration

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For so many years organisations have postponed the inevitable.  They have refused to clean up Exchange public folders, and content from 1996 is still present.  Those Outlook forms that someone wrote in 1999 are still present.  Stale Offline Address Book (OAB) folders and OWAScratchPad folders hang on for dear life.  None of these are needed, and its high time to remove them.

Prior to starting a pub… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Public Folder Migration”

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Quick Tip–Easily Accessing Certificate MMC

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Having to manually open a blank MMC and add in the certificate MMC every time will quickly bore you.  I used to then save it onto my desktop as shown below so I would only have to do this once per server.  It could also be copied to other servers.  The chosen name goes back to TechEd 2002 – don’t ask…

Hot Certificate Action MSC

While that is useful for servers you commonly use, what about other servers?  What if you work wit… Read the rest “Quick Tip–Easily Accessing Certificate MMC”

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Unable To Ping Windows Server

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

You have just deployed a shiny new Windows 2012 R2 member server, and joined it to the domain.  After the server has restarted you try and ping it from one of the other domain machines, but ping is dropped.   You check the Network Location Awareness, as you have been burnt by that before, but that is fine and it can see the AD domain.

In the below example, note that the DNS request was successful. … Read the rest “Unable To Ping Windows Server”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 2 Years

Posted on by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Update 16-9-2019  Please note that Exchange 2010 support has been extended to the 13th of October 2020.  This does not mean that migration plans can be paused.  Also review the aspects of the support for the underlying OS.

January 2020 is going to be a very important month.  There are multiple large and important products which will exit out of their extended support lifecycle phase.  The list includ… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 2 Years”

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Most Popular Blog Posts For 2017

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Well, EHLO to the year 2018!  Just like last year, let’s take a peek at the top 10 most popular blog posts based on hit count.

As previously noted, there is more of a demand for Office 365 and Exchange Online content.  The steps to run a manual sync cycle was the most popular post.  Remaining current on support life cycle is also critical, and the Windows 2008/R2 and Exchange 2010 aspect is an issu… Read the rest “Most Popular Blog Posts For 2017”

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Exchange 2016 CU8 Released

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Exchange 2016 CU8 has been released to the Microsoft download centre!  Exchange 2016 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously.    CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2016 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one. Exchange 2013 ha… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU8 Released”

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Exchange 2013 CU19 Released

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Exchange 2013 CU19 has been released to the Microsoft download centre!  Exchange 2013 has a different servicing strategy than Exchange 2007/2010 and utilises Cumulative Updates (CUs) rather than the Rollup Updates (RU/UR) which were used previously.    CUs are a complete installation of Exchange 2013 and can be used to install a fresh server or to update a previously installed one.  Exchange 2013 … Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU19 Released”