Author: Frank

I wanted to write this article to make it easier for you to choose between SQL Server’s technologies used for HA (High Availability) and DR (Disaster Recovery) for Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktop Site Setup Briefly, we will compare the technologies listed below. Always On Failover Cluster Database Mirroring Always ON Availability Group Replication Log […]
The Microsoft Exchange Server Auth Certificate is installed when you install an Exchange Server, and it’s 5 years active. Most of the time, you don’t look into that certificate because, within 5 years, you will have a new Exchange Server and decommission the old Exchange Server. What if you accidentally removed the certificate, or it’s […]
Windows Admin Center needs to be authorized when a user try to connect into a server and this means enable SSO. Without the configuration of a constrained Kerberos delegation, WAC will display an alert that is not possible to connect using the Use my account for this connection option. Figure 1 – WAC Message To avoid this, […]
Yesterday when  building topology and then publish it based on my servers who is running Windows server 2016, and the Preview of the S4B-2019. I get this error when trying to verify topology. Does not matter if I choose Standard edition with one frontend server or if I have Enterprise ed with 3 servers and […]
I was recently rebuilding my home lab, purely as a refresher when I ran into a (new for me) hurdle when deploying Persistent Chat. I had deployed; Single standard Edition Server SQL Server with Reporting Services, hosting Monitoring and Archiving I had then decided to update my deployment by adding Persistent Chat to my Standard […]
Having our vCenter servers in an enhanced link mode configuration is great, since everything is in one console, but there are situations where one of the vCenter servers or External Platform Service Controllers (PSC) just die, it’s improperly removed from the infrastructure during decommission, or you just want to break the Enhanced Link Mode configuration (ELM) between one or […]
Scenario I recently did a project where the client wanted to use their email address domain for their SIP domain – fairly common – but they did not have an internal DNS zone for that domain.  Their internal AD structure was domain.local – not something we can publish for external or federation access.  Furthermore, the […]
Windows Server 2012 R2 running ADFS  “Replacing the SSL and Service Communications certificates go hand-in-hand. Any time you are replacing one of these certificates, you must also replace the other. SSL certificates exist on all Federation Servers and Federation Server Proxy servers. Service Communications certificates only exist on Federation Servers”. As you already know AD […]
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