New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. Take our venerable friend, netstat! Even though it has been around for many moons folks often get into the habit of using only certain options, switches or parameters. For reference purposes, the Windows XP Netstat options are doc… Read the rest “New Netstat Options”
Like many other customers, the Tailspintoys Canada organization are leveraging Azure as part of their IT solution, and have done so for years. Because of this they have Azure resources in the old Azure model, and wish to transition to the new deployment methodology. In short they need to move from Azure Service Manager to the new Azure Resource Manager.
Azure Service Manager (SM) is also called C… Read the rest “Migrating IaaS Resources to Azure Resource Manager”
For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.
Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:
This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.
For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”
This is a follow-up to the initial post on the topic which was based on the original Azure Service Manager (Azure SM) model. Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM) changes the deployment methodology. Take a look at Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources for more details. We will take a brief look at the relationship of the networking… Read the rest “How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”
TailspinToys Canada have been busy upgrading their on-premises, Azure and Office 365 infrastructure. Previously Azure resources were moved from classic (Azure Service Manager) to the new Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM). The VMs, storage accounts and VHDs were migrated. One of the migration blockers was that multiple availability sets were previously present in one of the cloud services. Th… Read the rest “Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD”
The below Web Application Proxy (WAP) server had an unexpected issue. When the machine came back up, it had lost the configuration to allow it to communicate to the AD FS farm. This is not specifically an VM/Hyper-V/Azure issue, it is more of a WAP issue.
Fixing the issue is straight forward, though let’s take a look at the symptoms first.
On the affected WAP server the AD FS serv… Read the rest “Web Application Proxy Service Not Starting Due to Malformed Configuration File”
This post is to answer a recent customer question regarding if there is a requirement to perform a directory sync cycle after creating a new remote mailbox enabled AD user object before it could have an Office 365 mailbox created.
They believed that the on-premises Exchange tools were directly reaching out to Exchange Online and immediately creating the necessary mailbox in the service. This is w… Read the rest “Enable-RemoteMailbox – Is It A Chicken Or An Egg”
The below is a quick note for Canadian customers. We are now almost at the end of the window to signup for the GoLocal move where Microsoft will move your North American tenant to the Canadian datacenter region. Note that the message states core customer data is what will be moved. The below message should be in your Office 365 Message Center:
From the above message:
Customers with data residency… Read the rest “Reminder – Signup For Moving Tenant To Canadian Datacenter Region”
How many days do you have where the below describes the standard routine?
I have also been known to reference this when delivering Microsoft workshops in the preamble to break time....
Cheers,
Rhoderick
When running operations in the Exchange Management Shell, you may run into the situation where the commands do not complete and the error “Pipeline not executed because a pipeline is already executing” is reported. An example of this is shown below.
This is an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 lab server. In this case a PowerShell one-liner was used to iterate through the Exchange 2010 servers, and to start… Read the rest “Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing”