Items related specifically to Windows Server 2012
Working on multiple versions of Exchange means having multiple different labs. Each lab will have different versions of Exchange, different update le… Read the rest “Install DFSRDIAG On Windows 2012 R2 and Windows 2016”
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 manuall… Read the rest “Change AD FS 2012 R2 Service Account Password”
New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. … Read the rest “New Netstat Options”
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 billin… Read the rest “Exchange Services Not Starting on Windows Server 2012 Due to Network Location Profile”
When creating a new Database Availability Group, there was a bit of rude shock when the installation failed. This customer had deployed multiple Exch… Read the rest “Add-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer – You Must Provide A Value For This Property”
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 i… Read the rest “How To Import Windows 2008 R2 VM To Windows 2012 or 8.1 Using Boot To VHD”
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 … Read the rest “SkipAsSource Flag Cleared In Windows 2012”
While working with one of my consulting colleagues recently on some Windows Server 2012 installations. There was an application requirement to instal… Read the rest “Install Desktop Experience On Windows Server 2012”
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 di… Read the rest “Hyper-V Did Not Find Virtual Machine To Import”
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… Read the rest “List Of Updates For Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V”