Windows 10 FlushDNS
One issue when cutting over services or performing datacentre disaster recovery operations consists of three little letters – DNS.
DNS records have a time to live (TTL) and depending on …
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Save The Date – End of Exchange 2010 Support–T Minus 1 Year
January 2020 is going to be a very important month. There are multiple large and important products which will exit out of their extended support lifecycle phase. The list includes …
Script to Clear Credman
With my customer facing role, there are lot of demonstrations to enterprise customers. Manually reverting machines back to the initial starting point for the next demo can be time consuming …
QuickTip–Delay Functionality In Windows Snipping Tool
In current versions of Windows the venerable snipping tool (snippingtool.exe) has been updated with improved functionality.
Windows 7 Snipping Tool
This is the Snipping Tool from a Windows 7 lab …
Get-AdfsProperties Error ADMIN0120
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 …
Connect to AD FS 2016 WID Using SQL Server Management Studio
As part of troubleshooting a recent Windows Server 2016 AD FS issue, I wanted to take a look at the database using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). In order to …
Exchange 2010 Support For Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers
Previously Exchange 2010 was not supported with Windows Server 2016 Domain Controllers. The support position was discussed in the Exchange Support For Windows Server 2016 post back in 2016. …
Easy Way To Retrieve Certificate Thumbprint Using PowerShell
Since many certificate operations involve knowing the certificate's thumbprint, it is always useful to to have an easy way to get this information. In some of the online documentation it …
Quick Tip–How To Easily Open Additional Instance or Elevate Applications
This tip is for all the folks out there who want a quick and easy way to open an additional instance of an application which they are running or to …
Exchange 2016 Prerequisites AS-HTTP-Activation Missing
The below was an exercise in paying attention to detail for one of my customers. They were in the middle of an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration and were attempting …