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Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love

Posted on 5th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous post on the topic of the Registry Editor’s favourites menu, Andrew Higginbotham was kind enough to point out that there was also an easy way to export the favourites from one machine and import to another. Since its always good to show how to arrive at a solution, let’s breakdown the process of finding out where this data is squirreled.

As always we can use the venerable Sysinternals… Read the rest “Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love”

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Importing Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM Into Server 2012

Posted on 2nd September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A virtual machine from Windows Server 2012 R2 cannot be directly imported into Windows Server 2012. This is discussed in this previous post along with the import error 32784 .

There will be times when we want to take a 2012 R2 VM and import it into 2012, this happened to me recently when setting up one of the workshops that I deliver to customers. While the setup guide said to deploy 2012 … Read the rest “Importing Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM Into Server 2012”

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Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines to Import – Error 32784

Posted on 29th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When importing a VM into Windows Server 2012 that was exported from Windows 2012 R2 you will be unable to import the VM. If you import the VM using PowerShell’s Import-VM cmdlet the error message is not very descriptive – “The operation cannot be performed because the object is not in a valid state”. You will also find EventID 15040 in the VMMS event log.

The full error message for … Read the rest “Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines to Import – Error 32784”

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Exchange 2013 CU6 Released

Posted on 26th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Exchange 2013 CU6 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 SP… Read the rest “Exchange 2013 CU6 Released”

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Exchange 2010 SP3 RU7 Released

Posted on 26th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 7 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU7 is the latest rollup of customer fixes available for Exchange Server 2010. The release contains fixes for customer reported issues and previously released security bulletins. For example, the security issue that was addressed in Exchange 2010 SP3 RU4 is contained in RU7.

This is b… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU7 Released”

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Back To The Real World

Posted on 18th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

You may have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet on the blog, TechNet forums and also replying to comments. I took some time off to go back to Europe for a few weeks travelling around Malta and Scotland. Will get back to normal soon, just have to slash through my inbox and get that under control!

After enjoying this:

It was time for the below views at Glencoe:

While this is all nice and green (even … Read the rest “Back To The Real World”

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PowerShell Input Output Escapades

Posted on 13th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After using various types, architectures and generations of computers over the years there is always the habit of “you go to what you know!” In other words once you figure out a solution to an issue, you then use that repeatedly in the future as you know the process/steps involved. This adroitly describes me when it comes to doing certain command line tasks. If I were being a bit… Read the rest “PowerShell Input Output Escapades”

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Quick Tip – Event Viewer Filtering

Posted on 6th August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

I was recently reminded of a simple yet effective Event Viewer filtering tip. If you have thousands of event entries that are pollution/flooding the log it becomes very difficult to see the actual real issues.

For example this tip has proved very useful when the application event log is full of these types of noise:

EventID 1 from MSExchange Autodiscover stating Unhandled Ex

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How To Rename DAG Network Using PowerShell

Posted on 1st August 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Quick post for a Friday!

A customer had an “interesting” issue where the DAG networks were not being displayed inside the Exchange Management Console. The underlying reason is because the implemented firewalls between Exchange servers, and then restricted network traffic between Exchange and the DCs. This is not a supported situation. For details on the firewall restricting traffic aspect please… Read the rest “How To Rename DAG Network Using PowerShell”

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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and 2008 Mainstream Support – T Minus 6 Months

Posted on 24th July 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In a little under 6 months, multiple products will experience a support life cycle change. As indicated by the space shuttle being readied, the countdown has started and the dates are set. Make sure you are aware of what is happening on the 13th of January 2015.

2014 has already been a busy year for product transitions, with Exchange 2003, Office 2003 and Windows XP Pro all exiting out of extended… Read the rest “Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and 2008 Mainstream Support – T Minus 6 Months”