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Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE

Posted on 29th January 2015 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In this post we will look at some of the mechanics behind creating a profile file which will customise the start-up behaviour of the Integrated Scripting Environment (ISE). This will also serve as a precursor to additional posts on tweaking ISE for Exchange purposes. The catalyst for writing this was twofold. Firstly, an administrator was having issues trying to get ISE to process a profile scr… Read the rest “Creating PowerShell Profile For Integrated Scripting Environment – ISE”

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Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3

Posted on 12th December 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

This is the case of one of those bizarre and very annoying issues to tack down. The server in question is one of my lab servers where an automated build was used to create it. It is a Windows 2008 R2 SP1 based server which has TMG 2010 SP2 installed as a reverse proxy. Said server has been a little “squirrely”, and some “interesting things have happened where a … Read the rest “Windows Update Fail – 0xC80003F3”

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Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7

Posted on 19th November 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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

The venerable Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) 2.2 was starting to show its age.

After a slight hiatus, RDCMan 2.7 is now available. Please say thank you to Julian Burger for the early Christmas present. Remote Desktop Connection Manager (RDCMan) is a great tool to consolidate multiple RDP connections into a single window to pr… Read the rest “Remote Desktop Connection Manager Download (RDCMan) 2.7”

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Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance

Posted on 5th November 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since there will be a good few folks running Windows 10 who subscribe to the RSS feed, I though it would worthwhile sharing a recent issue I had with my Windows 10 laptop. This is a Lenovo W530 with ample CPU, SSD and video card performance. It should run like a beast, but recently the graphics performance was terrible. Clicking around between windows took seconds, and searching … Read the rest “Windows 10 Poor Graphics Performance”

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Disabling IPv6 And Exchange – Going All The Way

Posted on 29th October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

When we are performing the Exchange Risk Assessment, one of things PFE love to check is how servers have been configured for IPv6. There have been numerous occasions where we have found servers whose admin has said that they have disabled IPv6, but when you look at the server it is not really disabled.

When we take a look at the Exchange server, the initial clue is that the network card’s TCP/IPv6 … Read the rest “Disabling IPv6 And Exchange – Going All The Way”

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Doh! Windows Update Has Navigation Tabs

Posted on 24th October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Windows Update is a very important feature in the newer builds of the OS. If we think back to the NT 3.5/4.0 days the process to obtain updates was very different. Just to obtain a hotfix you needed to call in, provide credit card details and then obtain the update. How times have changed! And for the better!

This post is one of those Homer moments. When you realise fo… Read the rest “Doh! Windows Update Has Navigation Tabs”

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Windows 10 Preview – VMs Missing In Hyper-V Manager

Posted on 16th October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

After updating my Windows 8.1 machine to the Windows 10 preview, some of my VMs were no longer visible in the Hyper-V Manager. Prior to powering on some VMs, all of them were visible. After powering on, some VMs disappeared in the Hyper-V Manager console.

In the screen shot below, there should be 10 VMs displayed which have the prefix of “HA”.

Restarting the Virtual Machine manage… Read the rest “Windows 10 Preview – VMs Missing In Hyper-V Manager”

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How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup

Posted on 2nd October 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Generally the Exchange external Autodiscover DNS entity is configured as a regular A record. Sometimes a service record (SRV) is used instead. Since I have the habit of forgetting the syntax of quickly querying for the SRV record, this is one of those shared bookmark posts!

Nslookup is the tool of choice here! Its documentation can be found on TechNet.

There are two ways to run nslookup – interac… Read the rest “How To Check Exchange Autodiscover SRV Record Using Nslookup”

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Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love

Posted on 5th September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

In the previous post on the topic of the Registry Editor’s favourites menu, Andrew Higginbotham was kind enough to point out that there was also an easy way to export the favourites from one machine and import to another. Since its always good to show how to arrive at a solution, let’s breakdown the process of finding out where this data is squirreled.

As always we can use the venerable Sysinternals… Read the rest “Sharing the Registry Editor Favourites Love”

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Importing Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM Into Server 2012

Posted on 2nd September 2014 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

A virtual machine from Windows Server 2012 R2 cannot be directly imported into Windows Server 2012. This is discussed in this previous post along with the import error 32784 .

There will be times when we want to take a 2012 R2 VM and import it into 2012, this happened to me recently when setting up one of the workshops that I deliver to customers. While the setup guide said to deploy 2012 … Read the rest “Importing Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V VM Into Server 2012”