I took some steps to automate my WSUS Server Cleanup Wizard tasks. It can take forever if you don’t stay on top of it and can crash frequently if you don’t do it often enough. With the following steps, I was able to automate the process and wanted to share my results! First was create […]
Resource Forests and Skype for Business Final Solution In this particular deployment the customer has requested that Skype for Business be installed in a new forest to provide access to users across multiple legacy domains. Single Sign On is required (Using the users credentials in the User Forest to authenticate to Skype user account resource in the Resource […]
C: Drive Full Exchange This article is for you if your Exchange servers are filling up their C: drive even though you configured different drives for the mailbox databases and transaction logs. Symptoms for Exchange 2016 C: drive use C: drive used space increases 20-100 GB per month Exchange 2016 Server or 2019 or 2013 […]
This works on Windows 10, Windows 8, Windows 7, Lync and Skype for Business desktop clients. Requires administrative rights to your computer. If you are interested in setting Microsoft Teams status, check out how to set the custom Focusing status blogpost Wouldn’t it be cool if you could change your presence state in Skype for Business to match […]
Did you ever disable a Active Directory Account which also disables the Exchange Mailbox on the older Exchange servers (Exchange 2000, Exchange 2003 with pre-SP2)? You want to just disable the account, but not the mailbox. right? There is simple solution, read more below. 1. Open the disabled (and enabled) Active Directory account properties. 2. […]
Creating or migrating the CMS of a SQL 2014 Always on Availability Group for Skype for Business 2015 I think one you get done with your deployment, you get to sit back and Enjoy the Honey of your Efforts. But If you are Migrating a SQL Always On Availability Group, See Below for some […]
I found it hard to follow and understand this article https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/Exchange/high-availability/database-availability-groups/metacachedatabase-setup?view=exchserver-2019 and could not find actual step-by-step information on configuring Exchange Server MCDB anywhere. So, I created my own. The process of setting up MCDB can be broken down into five basic steps: Set the correct values for the DAG you want to enable for MCDB. Update […]
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 […]