Symptoms When you try to upgrade your Microsoft Skype for Business (SFB) 2019 pool or server to the SFB Subscription Edition RTM, or when you try to run Install-CsDatabase cmdlet in PowerShell, the following error message is displayed in the Skype for Business Deployment wizard: Unable to continue installation due to incompatible service version(s) found. Causes This […]
How to change the Promary ADFS federation server when using ADFS configured to used Windows Internal Database to store the configuration: On the server you want configure as the new Primary: Set-AdfsSyncProperties -Role PrimaryComputer On the old primary (now secondary) Set-AdfsSyncProperties -Role SecondaryComputer -PrimaryComputerName FQDN.Primaryservername.here To see the status of the ADFS server (Primary/Secondary): Get-AdfsSyncProperties […]
After upgrading Web Application Proxy (WAP) to Windows Server 2019 you may run into an issue with certain applications that are published via WAP to the Internet. In the below example the AD FS upgrade went well with no issues. The AD FS farm and WAP servers were upgraded to Windows Server 2019 and all […]
Symptom: On the current WAP server wapserver1, the WAP remote access management console display a server called server2. How to remove this server from the cluster list? Solution: Connect on the wapserver1, open a powershell prompt: Swpc –ConnectedServersName ((gwpc).ConnectedServersName –ne ‘server2.domain.local’) gwpc to display the list of WAP servers. -Restart WAP Service
In this post we are going to begin to touch Group Policy Objects (GPO) and begin to apply them to our domain structure. We will be making one GPO in this article and it’ll be the start of a standard for all systems on the domain regardless of operating system (OS) and role. This policy […]
This article will walk through a basic install and configuration for SQL Always On, to be leveraged by SCOM for higher availability. This is no way aligned to Clustering and SQL best practices – just an example on how to set one up for a simple testing deployment. The Server OS used will be Windows […]
The ASUS NUC 14 Pro (formally known as Revel Canyon) is the first ASUS-based NUC since the acquisition of the NUC Division from Intel last fall. I know many of my readers have been requesting a review of the new ASUS NUCs, but to be honest, it has been pretty difficult to get samples directly from ASUS, which […]
eDiscovery and in-Place/Litigation Holds are the premium Exchange Server features that allow administrators or discovery managers to search user mailboxes for various items and – if nessesary – put those mailboxes on holds for litigation or some other purposes. In this article I’d like to show how you – an administrator – can designate a […]