QuickTip – Windows Emoji Keyboard Shortcut
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?…
Tips N Tricks
Connect to AD FS 2016 WID Using SQL Server Management Studio
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 …
Easy Way To Retrieve Certificate Thumbprint Using PowerShell
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 …
Hyper-V VM Import–Know Before You Go
Importing VMs from one host to another can run into issues due differences in the configuration of the hosts. A common issue is that a virtual switch does not exist …
Quick Tip – Download .NET Framework 4.5 Offline Installer
This post will attempt to resolve some download frustration if your are looking for an older version of the .NET Framework. This is an issue with Exchange 2010 as the …
Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications
This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to …
Quick Tip–Easily Accessing Certificate MMC
Having to manually open a blank MMC and add in the certificate MMC every time will quickly bore you. I used to then save it onto my desktop as shown …
Unable To Ping Windows Server
You have just deployed a shiny new Windows 2012 R2 member server, and joined it to the domain. After the server has restarted you try and ping it from one …
Office 365 Workshop Links – December 2017
This is a link fest for the items discussed during a recent Office 365 workshop delivered in an unusually tropical Calgary last week. Calgary +12 in December is always a …
Install DFSRDIAG On Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016
Working on multiple versions of Exchange means having multiple different labs. Each lab will have different versions of Exchange, different update levels and also different Active Directory site layouts. They …