Adding Routes Using CMAK
I have just put together a Connection Manager VPN client (CMAK) and within it have specified the extra routing information that I needed. When I ran the client I got the following error message and...
View ArticleScheduling Backup on Microsoft Hyper-V Server
To do a backup of the virtual machines installed on your Hyper-V Server (2008 or 2008 R2 editions) you need to complete the following steps. Install the backup feature by typing start /w ocsetup...
View ArticleLab Environment: Set All Users With Non-Expiring Passwords
Using Active Directory Module for Windows Powershell (part of Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory and downloadable for earlier versions of AD) use the following cmdlet to set all your user to have...
View ArticleInstalling Dell Open Manage 7.1 on Hyper-V R2 Servers
This set of instructions goes through the process for installing Dell Open Manager on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. Download both the 6.5 and 7.1 versions of Dell Open Manage You need...
View ArticleAccess Is Denied Message After Sysprep–How To Fix
If before you use Sysprep to prepare a Windows machine for imaging you set the administrators password “User cannot change password” then sysprep will not clear this setting, but will set the “User...
View ArticleInstalling and Configuring AD RMS and Exchange Server
Earlier this week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2012) I led a session titled Configuring Rights Management Server for Office 365 and Exchange On-Premises [E14.314]. This blog shows three...
View ArticlePlacing Exchange 2013 Into Maintenance Mode
Updated 5 Feb 2013 to include Redirect-Message cmdlet Exchange 2013 has a feature called Managed Availability. This feature detects issues with a server and in the event of an issue attempts to fix the...
View ArticleCreating Mailboxes in Office 365 When Using DirSync
This blog post describes the process to create a new user in Active Directory on-premises when email is held in Office 365 and DirSync is in use. With DirSync in use the editable copy of the user...
View ArticleSSL and Exchange Server
In October 2014 or thereabouts it became known that the SSL protocol (specifically SSL v3) was broken and decryption of the encrypted data was possible. This blog post sets out the steps to protect...
View ArticleConfiguring Writeback Permissions in Active Directory for Azure Active...
[Update November 2015 – User Writeback has been pulled from preview, so latest versions of AADConnect do not offer this option – it will probably return, so content about it remains in this blog] Azure...
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