Installing Exchange 2010 onto Windows Server 2012 R2 is a request that frequently heard on the TechNet Exchange forums. You may have seen posts from me in the past saying that this was not supported, and at the time that …
The below is an issue which caused this week’s customer a little stress. They wanted to review the current AD FS configuration, but were not able to successfully run the Get-AdfsPropeties cmdlet.
The Get-AdfsProperties cmdlet would generate the error below.…
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 are all required to test and validate different configurations.
These …
One of the added features in AD FS 2012 R2 was the ability to leverage group managed service accounts (gMSA) which obviated the requirement to manually change the password associated with the service account. See Getting Started with Group Managed …
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 …
In some of the lab environments provided to me, the base Windows image has pre-set WSUS updates servers. When I then move the lab VMs to a different network, the original WSUS servers are no longer available, and I typically …
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Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) heavily leverages X.509 certificates to allow the solution to function securely. As with …
Some of my lab servers run in Microsoft Azure with no redundancy. This is because they are only a lab, and I want to minimise the monthly billing costs for these environments. When the servers are restarted due to patching …
This is an updated version of the original Windows Server 2012 post. The genesis of which was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of servers. This met with some muttering and cursing from my colleague in …
When creating a new Database Availability Group, there was a bit of rude shock when the installation failed. This customer had deployed multiple Exchange 2010 DAGs over the lifespan of the product, yet their latest build ran into an issue. …