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How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”

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Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts

Posted on 21st November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Previously we discussed how to customise Exchange 2010 RBAC to delegate creating mail enabled contacts. The intent of that original post was to allow for the for creation of simple mail enabled contacts that would facilitate sharing the SMTP address of a person outside the Exchange organisation.

Marc commented on that post as the provided solution did not fit his requirements which were different.… Read the rest “Creating RBAC Role To Delegate Editing Contacts”

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Exchange 2010 Tweaks

Posted on 20th November 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Kris Waters, one of my great colleagues from the US, originally posted a really neat list of items which can mitigate issues found in a lot of large scale Exchange deployments. Please take the time to review her post here. There are a lot of valuable pointers in her blog, so definitely check it out!

In addition there are a couple of other items listed below that you may also want to review.

As Kri… Read the rest “Exchange 2010 Tweaks”

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How To Check Exchange Rollup Version

Posted on 29th October 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Back with the first few releases of Exchange, product updates were made available via service packs. This continued into the Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 days. It seems like an eternity ago, and dinosaurs were still roaming the Earth, when Exchange 2003 SP2 was released in October of 2005 as a whopping 109 MB download.

Exchange 2007 moved to a different servicing strategy which added a predicti… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Rollup Version”

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SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012

Posted on 27th August 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here:

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PowerShell Resources For The Exchange Administrator

Posted on 28th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A long time ago, in a continent far, far away from where I currently live there was a younger, fitter and better looking version of me. One of the few woes that this chap had, was that on a Friday afternoon he would be struggling to delete enough files off a server to allow that day’s event log archive process to run. Site Server 3.0 ( yes, I’m really dating myself now….) was used to replicate th… Read the rest “PowerShell Resources For The Exchange Administrator”

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Install Desktop Experience On Windows Server 2012

Posted on 11th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of the servers. This met with some muttering and cursing from the nearby fabric covered box as the option to install the Desktop Experience feature is not as obvious as it was on Windows 2008 R2, highlighted below.

Using

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Office 2013 Click-To-Run Not Updating

Posted on 28th May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When the office updates were released last patch Tuesday, there were a couple of issues of mine that were resolved. Great, I thought, let’s download and install them! After checking that my installed build of Outlook etc. was older than the released updates I downloaded the updates from the Microsoft Download Centre and then went to install them only for it to b… Read the rest “Office 2013 Click-To-Run Not Updating”

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Time To Move To SkyDrive From Mesh

Posted on 8th February 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Just in case anyone is still procrastinating about moving over from Mesh to SkyDrive, please note that Mesh will be retired next week on Wednesday February the 13th 2013.

Believe it or not, but it was back in 2008 when Mesh was released. Time certainly flies, and the capabilities and expectations people now have for cloud services have changed.

SkyDrive is now the central component for integra… Read the rest “Time To Move To SkyDrive From Mesh”

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How To Tweak Your TechNet Forum Signature

Posted on 31st January 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since I have been asked a few times about how I pimped tweaked my TechNet Forum signature I thought it would be prudent to write it up here. This was one of the main drivers for creating this blog in the first place – so I could avoid having to write the same email several times and instead it would be a “here’s the link which contains the answer!”.

My current TechNet signature is shown below, and t… Read the rest “How To Tweak Your TechNet Forum Signature”