Since today is World Emoji Day, the below tip is rather relevant!
Did you know that Windows now has a keyboard shortcut built in to allow to access emojis?
Windows key and period / full stop *
or
Windows key and colon
This will function across multiple applications and is not limited to Skype for Business. Enjoy!!
Cheers,
Rhoderick
* – choose whiche… Read the rest “QuickTip – Windows Emoji Keyboard Shortcut”
As part of troubleshooting a recent Windows Server 2016 AD FS issue, I wanted to take a look at the database using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In order to successfully connect there are a couple of gotchas to note as the database used was the Windows Internal Database (WID). This is the default AD FS 2012 R2 and 2016 deployments. There is no SQL management interface and the correct con… Read the rest “Connect to AD FS 2016 WID Using SQL Server Management Studio”
After seeing multiple comments on this topic internally and on the TechNet forums, it is worth reiterating the requirements for the Visual C++ Runtime.
Exchange requires the installation of the Visual C++ Runtime if it was not already installed. Note that there is a different requirement for the Exchange Edge role. Edge requires Visual C++ Runtime 2012.
This addition of the Visual C++ Runtime was … Read the rest “Exchange Visual C++ Runtime Reminder”
Previously Exchange 2010 was not supported with Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers. The support position was discussed in the Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016 post back in 2016. This was a challenge for organisations who still had Exchange 2010 deployed yet wanted to move forward with AD DS upgrades so that they could take advantage of the newer AD features. While people would try … Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Support For Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers”
Exchange 2016 CU10 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 h… Read the rest “Exchange 2016 CU10 Released”
Exchange 2013 CU21 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 CU21 Released”
The Exchange team today announced the availability of Update Rollup 22 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 3. RU22 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.
This is build 14.03.0411.000 of Exchange 2010, and KB4295699 has the full details for the release. The update… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 SP3 RU22 Released”
Update 16-11-2020 - Issue still persists. Currently see the same behaviour on an Exchange 2016 CU18 server and a fresh Exchange 2013 Cu23 build.
Travelling to see different customers from one side of Canada to the other is always interesting. This post is written whilst in Vancouver and is from a reported customer issue waaaaay out East.
The Exchange admins pointed out that they were consistently r… Read the rest “Exchange Null Path Statement”
Since many certificate operations involve knowing the certificate’s thumbprint, it is always useful to to have an easy way to get this information. In some of the online documentation it mentions you can copy the thumbprint out of the Certificate MMC snap-in and then manually delete the spaces between the data. No thanks.
However, if you *really* want to do that, or a quick and easy way to launch… Read the rest “Easy Way To Retrieve Certificate Thumbprint Using PowerShell”
Time marches on. Exchange 2013 and Outlook 2013 have now exited out of mainstream support and will be serviced as per their extended support life cycle policy.
Several years Ready For The Next Episode? and The New Exchange were the first posts here on Exchange 2013. The latter has an image of how the Exchange team blog used to look. That was back when orange must have been the marketing colour of … Read the rest “End of Exchange 2013 and Office 2013 Mainstream Support”