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Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card

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Edit: 24-1-2013:  A second article using PowerShell 3.0 is here

Edit: 30-1-2013: – A third article is using advanced PowerShell 3.0 is here.

Edit 28-8-2013: – A similar issue with the setting being removed is present in Windows Server 2012.  Article with workaround is here.

The previous behaviour in Windows was to register all IP addresses that were entered on the network card’s property sheet into DNS… Read the rest “Fine Grained Control When Registering Multiple IP Addresses On a Network Card”

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Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued

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At an engagement yesterday, I ran into an interesting issue where a custom certificate template that was created was unavailable from the Certificate Services Web Enrolment page.

One quick peek into the KB revealed a match for the issue. 

You cannot have a Version 2 custom template of Type Minimum Windows 2008 Supported CA to be Available via Web Enrolment in Windows 2008

In Windows 2008, when yo… Read the rest “Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued”

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Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released

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Exchange sustained engineering has released Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 to the Microsoft download centre as update 2608656.

The description of the update can be located here and the update is located here.

I’ll leave you you to peruse the changes, but there are a couple in particular worth highlighting

2545080 Users in a source forest cannot view the free/busy information of mailboxes in a target forest when… Read the rest “Exchange 2007 SP3 RU6 Released”

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“Slow” File Copy Issues

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A recent performance issue case revolved around slow disk access times, and the impact that this had on Hyper-V and Windows in general.

The customer had identified that one of their SAN units was dramatically out performing another one, even though the slower unit should have been orders of magnitude faster – well, at least on paper!

As part of their tests IOMeter was used along with copying l… Read the rest ““Slow” File Copy Issues”

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Hyper-V 2008 R2 Architecture Poster (with SP1)

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Link to the updated Hyper-V poster for 2008 R2 SP1 is here.

 

Overview

This poster provides a visual reference for understanding key Hyper-V technologies in Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1. It focuses on architecture, snapshots, live migration, virtual networking, storage, RemoteFX and Dynamic Memory. You can use this poster in conjunction with the previously published Windows Server… Read the rest “Hyper-V 2008 R2 Architecture Poster (with SP1)”

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Hyper-V Connectivity Issue

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Update:  Newer firmware has been released since this was originally posted.

Ran into an interesting issue last week with a HP DL 585 Hyper-V host which had intermittent network connectivity over one of its defined virtual networks.

In the system event log the following warning was logged:

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To resolve the issue, HP has released an updated NIC driver which is dated 11-11-2011.

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The below is pasted from abo… Read the rest “Hyper-V Connectivity Issue”

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Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves

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Was discussing cross forest mailbox move operations with a customer last week to review the details around network requirements for remote move requests.  This is as opposed to a local move request which is used within the same Exchange Organisation.

Relevant TechNet documentation:

Create a Remote Move Request That has Exchange 2010 in Both Forests

Create a Remote Legacy Move Request Where One of the … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Cross Forest Mailbox Moves”

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How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 2

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In part one of this series we looked at some of the basic aspects of the PowerShell environment.  Let’s now look at the underlying mechanics on Exchange 2007 and 2010 servers.  We will need to address some aspects separately due to the different mechanisms that are used  between Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010.

For part one please click here.

For part three please click here.

Let’s kick off by looking… Read the rest “How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 2”

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Exchange EMC May Not Close – Update

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After installing Internet Explorer 9 onto an Exchange server, you may have experienced that the Exchange Management Console (EMC) will not close.  The following error is observed:

You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console

This did not affect everyone, and you may have been blissfully unaware of this Smile

The Exchange Team Blog originally discussed the issue, an… Read the rest “Exchange EMC May Not Close – Update”