Various Tips and Tricks
As the name of the post implies, something was terribly wrong with Outlook. Or so it appeared.
This was a visit to a customer with poor user experience running Outlook 2016 on Windows 7. The level of impact was clear long before I even stepped on site. Management were under the impression that Outlook was crippling their desktops and blocking other business critical applications from working. T… Read the rest “The Case of: Outlook Destroying Desktops”
In the previous post Load Balancing Azure AD FS Services we looked at using Azure RM to deploy and load balance AD FS services. This is the follow-up post to deploy the Web Application Proxy (WAP) servers and its associated load balancer into the DMZ.
In this post we will focus upon the highlighted area in the below diagram. The additional components were previously deployed, for details please … Read the rest “Load Balancing WAP In Azure RM”
There are many causes for receiving errors when signing onto AD FS. However some are more genuine than others. This is a quick tip to check that you are on the right track before diving into the details and potentially spending time troubleshooting when in fact nothing is wrong. Just lately, for some reason I’m seeing this more frequently. That has prompted the draft from last October to be fi… Read the rest “Testing AD FS Signon Page – An Error Occurred”
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”
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”
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 sta… Read the rest “Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing”
The below was noted when dealing with a customer issue where the VIP was complaining that Outlook had "unexpectedly" changed the amount of data which they had chosen to keep offline. They had a laptop system with a very small SSD, which filled up due to the increased OST size.
Large OST issues happened frequently in Outlook 2010 as that version of the client would download all content to the OST. … Read the rest “Outlook Unexpectedly Changed Mail to Keep Offline Settings”