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VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van

Posted on 13th April 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

The polyester packing virtualization sales guy from the past is back! You may have seen Tad in his inaugural video over at VM-Limited.

Now the second instalment of his genius is live. I wish that I could get it on VHS, Betamax or maybe even VHS 2000 (points for those who remember that format!). That would be cool

For those in the UK, Tad’s look screams C & A on the high street. They were the… Read the rest “VMLimited – More Out-dated IT Plans Sold From The Back Of A Van”

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Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location

Posted on 5th April 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

On some recent Exchange 2010 builds I noticed that sometimes the Exchange services would fail due to a lack of connectivity with Active Directory. I noticed that the network location had changed from Domain and was listed as Public even though the server had a single connection which was on the internal corporate network.

A fix was released on this issue and can be downloaded from Microsoft.

The n… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting Due to Network Location”

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Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required

Posted on 26th March 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After seeing several posts in the TechNet Exchange forums, where people are posting an overview of their environment as part of the problem statement, it is clear that multiple customers are not maintaining the correct service pack level on their Exchange servers.

I previously blogged about this for Exchange 2010, and this time lets focus on Exchange 2007.

The Exchange 2007 lifecycle can be viewed h… Read the rest “Exchange 2007–Service Pack 3 Is Required”

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Windows Server “8” Beta

Posted on 2nd March 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Now that the Windows Server “8” beta has been released publically there is going to be a lot of excitement over the release’s new features. This shouldn’t be a surprise unless you have been in a decompression chamber or living under a rock this week Smile . Certainly over a million were not, and downloaded Win8 in the first 24 hours.

Download Windows Server "8" Beta

The necessary files can be download… Read the rest “Windows Server “8” Beta”

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Office 365 Tech Centre

Posted on 1st March 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

If you are planning to test or on-board with Office 365, have you seen the Tech Centre over on TechNet?

Some great content is located there, and is well worth a read.

Cheers,

Rhoderick

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Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update

Posted on 29th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

While working with a customer to resolve networking issues with their DAG last week I enquired if they had installed the recommended update for their DAG. They were not aware of the Exchange product group’s recommendation so I thought I’d bubble this back up again:

The post is on the Exchange team blog site and mentions the following update:

KB2550886 - A transient communication failure causes a Win… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Recommend DAG Update”

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Windows Service Log On As Inventory

Posted on 28th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

At a recent engagement a customer wanted to quickly scan through multiple servers to easily determine which services were set to log on as non-standard accounts, i.e. ones like network service, and local service were OK, but which ones were using an Active Directory logon for example? They also wanted to search specific portions of the AD, so logic was added to start searching a collection of com… Read the rest “Windows Service Log On As Inventory”

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

Posted on 8th February 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

Posted on 26th January 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

Posted on 26th January 2012 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”