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Tuesday, 28 October 2014

Domain Upgrade to Server 2012 R2: DNS Servers ""The server with this IP address is not authoritiative for the required zone." & “An unknown error occurred while validating the server.” when Configuring Cross Forest Name Resolution

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After a recently domain upgrade from Windows Server 2008 to Windows Server 2012 R2 a number of inconsistent DNS issues have started causing...
Thursday, 23 October 2014

"How to recover SA password on Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2" by Gert Van Gorp

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This is not one of my posts, it is something I came across that I used today that was very helpful.  http://v-consult.be/2011/05/26/recove...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014

Hyper-V 2012 R2 "Hyper-V cannot be installed: A hypervisor is already running." when you try to install the Hyper-V role on a Virtual Machine

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Recently I was setting up an environment of two Hyper-V 2012 R2 servers, my plan was to manage these instances of core Hyper-V from a full ...

Removing a Failed Exchange Server from Active Directory using ADSI Edit

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Removing a failed Exchange Server from your Active Directory domain is very easy. You basically go into ADSI Edit and select the Server obj...

Exchange 2010 SP1 Trouble Connecting a Single User's iPhone via ActiveSync "An exception occurred and was handled by Exchange ActiveSync. This may have been caused by an outdated or corrupted Exchange ActiveSync device partnership. This can occur if a user tries to modify the same item from multiple computers. If this is the case, Exchange ActiveSync will re-create the partnership with the device. Items will be updated at the next synchronization."

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A single user cannot connect their iPhone to Exchange with ActiveSync. The partnership appears to be created as contacts and calendars are ...
Tuesday, 21 October 2014

Forcibly Removing a Public Folder's SMTP Address from Exchange 2010 SP3

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After a massive Exchange outage ending in the server being rebuild I was asked why a user was no longer seeing e-mails from the info@domain...
Thursday, 16 October 2014

Exchange 2013 SP1: Performing a Mailbox Database Restore using Database Portability in Exchange Server 2013

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Since Exchange Server 2007 you have been able to perform Mailbox Databases restore using a feature called "Database Portability",...