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Install DFSRDIAG On Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016

Posted on 24th November 2017 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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 VMs are not always running. As a result, DFS sometimes needs attention if the environment was powered off for an extend… Read the rest “Install DFSRDIAG On Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016”

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Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password

Posted on 6th December 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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 Service Accounts for some background on gMSA. You may also see the term sMSA which is a standalone managed service account.

Managed service accounts and … Read the rest “Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password”

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New Netstat Options

Posted on 5th December 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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”

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Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile

Posted on 11th March 2016 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

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 or maintenance activities, there can be a little fallout.

In the case below, some Exchange services were not running on the Exchange 2010 CAS server in the lab… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile”

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Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property

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

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. They were able to create the DAG, but when adding the first mailbox server to the DAG, the operation failed.

This was not due to an underlying issue where the W… Read the rest “Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property”

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How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD

Posted on 2nd December 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the popular topics lately has revolved around the Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machines To Import error. This issue can arise when we try and import a VM into Windows Server 2012 R2 or 8.1 which was originally exported from Windows Server 2008 or 2008 R2. Such exported VMs from 2008 or 2008 R2 use a .exp file to hold the exported VM's configuration. The issue is discussed in detail in the… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”

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SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012

Posted on 27th August 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

For a while now I’ve been using the Netsh SkipAsSource Flag to allow multiple IPs on a server and only the primary IP registers in DNS. The previous series of articles in this series are here:

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Install Desktop Experience On Windows Server 2012

Posted on 11th July 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to install Media Player onto a couple of the servers. This met with some muttering and cursing from the nearby fabric covered box as the option to install the Desktop Experience feature is not as obvious as it was on Windows 2008 R2, highlighted below.

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Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import

Posted on 31st May 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

Since I have this lovely Lenovo W530 laptop with a couple of disks and 32GB of RAM, it is great to run VMs on! As you can imagine, I have multiple different Exchange labs to reflect all the different versions and builds that are in use. Generally I have been able to import all of my older VMs into Hyper-V on Windows 8 and 2012 with no issues. But as you probably have guessed by now, if I had no… Read the rest “Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import”

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List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Posted on 1st March 2013 by Rhoderick Milne [MSFT]

One of the best things about Microsoft products is the thriving community that drives a lot of articles outside of TechNet. For example there is a Wiki article that describes the Hyper-V updates for Windows 2008 and also for Windows 2008 R2.

The community has also started to publish the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V update list.

Currently there are only a couple of u… Read the rest “List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V”