Author: Frank

You’d think by now Microsoft would have stopped hard-coding its products to expect the US date format “MMDDYY”, but apparently the team behind Office Online Server 2016 are still holding out – and as a result you might find your OOS farm remains steadfastly “Unhealthy”, despite your best efforts. If you’re not in the US […]
As some of you may know, the Office Online Server is the updated replacement for Office Web Apps Server to enable PowerPoint presentation sharing and I’ve recently had the opportunity to deploy Skype for Business Server 2019 and thought I’d write a quick post demonstrating the deployment process. The following is the guide I used […]
There are 2 types of Windows Activation – KMS and MAK. However, for this post, I won’t be discussing on what are those or their differences, as this post is to discuss an error in regards to KMS implementation. Issues : The following error has occurred. Please resolve the error and try again.   Description […]
Overview User Profile Disks (UPD) were introduced in Windows Server 2012 and intended to replace the standard method of managing user data with roaming profiles. Unlike roaming profiles, a UPD is not an actual directory containing user profile data. “User profile disks store user and application data on a single virtual disk that is dedicated […]
Azure is great, but Azure On-Premises would be your dream come true? Well, today we will cover just that – installation of Azure Stack Development Kit (ASDK) I will cover ASDK installation with Azure AD support. Azure Free Account First thing to start with – you will need Free Azure account, you can create it […]
The Central Management Store (CMS) stores a copy of the entire Lync topology for your deployment.  Every server has a copy of the CMS, but there can be only one master.  Each Lync server downloads a copy of the CMS from this master at regular intervals.  By default, the first Lync server you deploy is […]
Depending on how you utilise Skype for Business, you may have no requirement to maintain a hybrid environment once all users are within Skype for Business online. Documentation around decommissioning the on premise environment was surprisingly sparse. One of the better documents around web was here – but it still stopped a little short, in my opinion. […]
When i was trying to publish my SfB toplogy the other day I kept getting this error: Unable to check the security for the Deleted Objects container. Only users who are listed as owners on the Deleted Objects security descriptor are able to check the security on this container. I had just removed SfB Server […]
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