Windows Update is a very important feature in the newer builds of the OS. If we think back to the NT 3.5/4.0 days the process to obtain updates was very different. Just to obtain a hotfix you needed to call in, provide credit card details and then obtain the update. How times have changed! And for the better!
This post is one of those Homer moments. When you realise fo… Read the rest “Doh! Windows Update Has Navigation Tabs”
Last week after showing a client some of new features in Windows 10, they went off and upgraded a laptop to the preview from Windows 8.1. Initially all seemed to go well. That is until they tried to start up VMs on their SSD drive. At that point Mr Sad & Grumpy came to visit.
They were getting errors such as:
After updating my Windows 8.1 machine to the Windows 10 preview, some of my VMs were no longer visible in the Hyper-V Manager. Prior to powering on some VMs, all of them were visible. After powering on, some VMs disappeared in the Hyper-V Manager console.
In the screen shot below, there should be 10 VMs displayed which have the prefix of “HA”.
Restarting the Virtual Machine manage… Read the rest “Windows 10 Preview – VMs Missing In Hyper-V Manager”
Six months ago, we discussed that Office 2010 SP1 support was drawing to a close. This means that you now need to have Office 2010 SP2 deployed on all relevant machines as the end of Office 2010 SP1 support is the 14th of October 2014.
The Microsoft support lifecycle site has the above details.
One thing to note here! Since I am focused on messaging, the main thingy in the Office stack that I work on… Read the rest “Office 2010 SP2–You Did Upgrade, Right?”
Generally the Exchange external Autodiscover DNS entity is configured as a regular A record. Sometimes a service record (SRV) is used instead. Since I have the habit of forgetting the syntax of quickly querying for the SRV record, this is one of those shared bookmark posts!
Nslookup is the tool of choice here! Its documentation can be found on TechNet.
There are two ways to run nslookup – interac… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup”
Depending upon the version of the sync solution that you are using to replicate directory data from on-premises Active Directory to Office 365 there are different commands that you will need to use.
We can see a listing of the DirSync versions on the TechNet wiki. And for AAD Sync, the version listings are on MSDN. This has now been superseded with another article which has version information o… Read the rest “How To Run Manual DirSync / Azure Active Directory Sync Updates”
Imagine the scenario -- all is working well with your Office 365 hybrid solution until you come into the office tomorrow morning and you get calls saying on-premises users are unable to see the free/busy information for mailboxes in Office 365. While this sounds like a bad dream, this reality could come true tomorrow morning, so let’s to check to make sure that this does not happen!
The background… Read the rest “Awareness – Is Your Federation Trust Metadata Updated?”
Previously we discussed an interesting feature of the Exchange virtual directory cmdlets where they check data stored in AD, rather than making a trip to the server and querying its IIS metabase. For the details on this, please read the original post here: Slow Response To Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlets.
In that article we were using the ADPropertiesOnly switch so that it was very quick to… Read the rest “Using ADPropertiesOnly With Exchange Virtual Directory Cmdlet Shows False Positives”
Please be aware of an emerging issue in Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online. In a delegate scenario it is possible that OWA can be used to delete a folder from the other user’s mailbox and not appear in the Deleted Items section of the recoverable items folder.
This is covered in KB 2996477 -- Folder deletions are not preserved for mailboxes put on litigation or in-place hold in Ex… Read the rest “Awareness – Litigation Hold Or In-Place Hold Folder Deletions Not Preserved in Exchange 2013 OWA”
In Exchange 2010 the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet is used to manage the AD environment in the current Exchange Management Shell (EMS) session. In Exchange 2007 there was a variable called AdminSessionADSettings for the same purpose. Exchange admins normally use the Set-AdServerSettings cmdlet to change a session’s view scope, so that they can see objects in multip… Read the rest “Set AdminSessionADSettings ViewEntireForest To True By Default”