You receive the following error in the Lync Deployment Wizard when installing the Lync Monitioring Server role: I confirmed that both the “Message Queuing Server (MSMQ)” and “Message Queuing Directory Service Integration” features were installed. The issue was that Message Queuing Server (MSMQ) had been in installed in “Workgroup mode” To verify if Message …
After deploying a few new laptops in our organisation I found that sometimes I would loose the GUI notification in the taskbar that would tell me the percentage complete of the encryption of the hard drive. This command ran in command prompt should give you the status of where the disk is currently at: manage-bde.exe …
Just a quick way to change your IP, Subnet Mask and Default gateway via command prompt First Run “netsh int ipv4 show interface” and note down the name of the adapter of which IP settings you want to change. Now the next command will change the IP configuration for you ( Please note “Local Area …
Here is a link to the re-released update: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=26910 Regards NeilC
An interesting read from the General Manager of the Exchange Team at MS: The Exchange Sustained Engineering team recently made the decision to recall the June 22, 2011 release of Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 4. This was not an action we took lightly and we understand how disruptive this was to customers. We would …
Microsoft have released a new CU for Lync Server and client as of July 23rd 2011. Links as per below: Server: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2571546 Client: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2571543 Good luck NeilC
We came across an issue recently when trying to create a test mailbox for our SCOM monitoring. On the Exchange Sever we ran the following script to create the test mailbox “New-TestCasConnectivityUser.PS1” However the command produced the following error “CreateTestUser : Mailbox could not be created. Verify that OU ( Users ) exists and that …
The update for Windows Phone 7, Mango, is due to be released this autumn: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsphone/en-us/cmpn/mango-overview.aspx Below are some of the confirmed features: Third-party Multi-tasking Twitter integration in People Hub Office 365 and SkyDrive support in Office Hub Internet Explorer 9 Mobile Improved application discovery Custom ringtones support Over-the-air Podcasts Download Better marketplace navigation Bing Search …
After configuring your Active Directory domain to store BitLocker and TPM Recovery Keys: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd875529(WS.10).aspx The following command can be run to configure pre Bit Locked machines to backup their recovery key to AD: 1. Open an administrative command prompt 2. manage-bde -protectors -get C: -type recoverypassword 3. manage-bde -protectors -adbackup C: -id {Insert the numerical …
The first public beta of Operations Manager has been released to the internet, it can be downloaded from the following link. http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=26804 Overview System Center Operations Manager 2012 provides the monitoring component of cloud and datacenter solutions, to help you manage your datacenter and cloud environments by: Delivering flexible and cost effective enterprise-class monitoring …