Author: Frank

In my current project, we have a need to add certain fields to Outlook contact cards such as Employee ID number, Location Code, and the like. These fields are controlled by the Address List, and to make changes to them, you use the Details Template Editor in the Exchange Toolbox. With the editor you can: […]
How to add or remove OWA machine to existing WAC Server Farm? Recently I was working on customer issue where PowerPoint presentation rendering was not working. The issue was one of Office Web App server was down and due to that OWA servers were not communicating with each other’s over 809 port, as soon as […]
Certificates sometimes expire… it happens! 🙂 But what happens if the certificate for your Office Online Server (OOS) or Office Web Apps Server (OWAS) farm expires and your farm is not available anymore? Obviously, OOS farm and your Skype for Business, Exchange & SharePoint integration stops working. Next thing to do will be to renew the expired certificate. But how? […]
Two major issues seem to be resolved and I hope this helps others. When deploying New-OfficeWebAppsFarm on Office Online Server or Office Web Apps Server fails with: Faulting application name: microsoft.office.web.agentmanager.exe, version: 16.0.10360.20000, time stamp: 0x5eba11c5 Faulting module name: KERNELBASE.dll, version: 10.0.14393.3986, time stamp: 0x5f77fd5b Try adding registry key “HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\services\eventlog\Microsoft Office Web Apps” because in […]
Scheduling Done Right We’ve come a long way since the early days of Schedule+. Much development has been done to refine and smoothen the way calendar meeting requests are handled across the range of Outlook clients and now Teams. However, I still receive more questions about calendars than any other aspect of Teams or Outlook. […]
I came across this error the other day when trying to load balance a couple of Skype for Business servers. These servers were 2012 R2 based and there wasn’t anything special about the certificate. After scratching my head thinking of things for a while and trying this and that, I resolved myself to using Wireshark […]
Version Release Name | Release Date | Build Number ESXi 8.0a 2022/12/08 20842819 For Xeon D-1500 series system like mine, I had to add the –no-hardware-warning flag to be able to execute this ESXCLI command successfully, you might not need to use that flag. Also, I was getting the “Unable to download from any URLs” […]
Having just created a new cluster, I noticed Event ID 1257 being logged in the Cluster Events node within Failover Cluster Manager. Cluster network name resource failed registration of one or more associated DNS name(s) because the access to update the secure DNS zone was denied. cluster Network name: 'Cluster Name' DNS Zone: *dns zone* […]
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