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Custom Certificate Template Cannot be Issued

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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How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 2

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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How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 1

Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShellAs a Microsoft Exchange Server focused Premier Field Engineer I spend a considerable amount of my time with customers at their work place and also when they attend training courses and workshops that I deliver. Naturally people want to talk and learn about the cool new features in Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010, which is great as it shows their underlying passion in the product. What they often do… Read the rest “How To Maximize Exchange Administrator Productivity With PowerShell–Part 1”

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Change DAG to DHCP

One of the great changes to Exchange 2010 SP1 was that a DAG static IP address can be set using the Exchange Managemetn Console.  Prior to this in RTM, the Exchange Management Shell had to be used to set a static IP.  An example of this would be:

 

In the SP1 EMC to revert the DAG to using DHCP, simply remove all the IP Addresses that were assigned.

But how can you revert a DAG back to using DHC… Read the rest “Change DAG to DHCP”

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Outlook & Restricting DAG Cross-Site Connections

This post is to clarify that a previously discussed feature that was intended for Exchange 2010 SP1 is not present in the SP1 final build.

Update:  This feature is now live in the Exchange 2010 SP2 RU3 build of Exchange. 

The feature I am referring to is the allow/block cross site RPC Client Access connections.  This sometimes comes up in workshops and discussions with clients regar… Read the rest “Outlook & Restricting DAG Cross-Site Connections”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.2

Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to prevent desktop clutter.

Update 24-6-2021: RDCMan 2.8.1 is available.  Please see here.

Update 19-11-2014: RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please see here.

Update 29-3-2017: 2.2 is no longer available for download - please use the 2.7 download link.

 

Remote Desktop Manager Download

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