Migrating the DHCP service from the old server to the new Windows Server 2016/2019 with the saving of all the settings of the old server is quite easy. If the old DHCP server is running Windows Server 2008/R2 or Windows Server 2012/R2, you can directly transfer DHCP settings, zones, and reservations. Deploying DHCP Server Role […]
If you’ve installed the 180-day Evaluation Edition of Windows Server 2016 or 2012, you’re likely to have experienced the server getting shutdown automatically every hour without any notification. This can just be a rebuff or a serious destruction of your unsaved work. For me it was serious as the server had abruptly shutdown while I […]
As we all know by now AlwaysOn Availability Groups are an enterprise edition feature and SQL Server Clustering is a standard edition feature. Butt what happens when you have a small business that is running its apps on SQL Server Express. Can’t SQL Express have any sort of high availability? Officially the answer is no, […]
This post has been republished via RSS; it originally appeared at: New blog articles in Microsoft Tech Community. One of the needs that arise during an Active Directory upgrade is to have to rename the new Domain Controllers with the Name and IP of the old ones. This should be avoided, application owners should be advised […]
If you’ve ever had a problem with potential meeting attendees forwarding requests to others, we have good news. If you have the latest version of Outlook (2016 or 365) or you’re an Office 365 subscriber using the Outlook web app, you can prevent people from forwarding meeting requests. Getting a meeting together with the right […]
Following Skype for Business Server 2015 CU5 May 2017 installation as part of the release notes i noticed something regarding meeting join experiences and i had a light bulb moment perhaps the new meeting join experience that’s already live in Skype for Business Online has come on premises. I had to dig on this. From […]
This is a template outline I have used several times and am very happy with it. It should work great for you and if not then let me know. I did this with vSphere 6.0 U2a and Windows 2016. I also used the vSphere Web Client as you will see in the screenshots. I will […]
I am working at the moment on a large IBM Notes/Sametime migration which will implement Microsoft Lync and Exchange whereby Lync is being delivered to users before they get their Exchange mailboxes due to the quantity of data being migrated. There are a few challenges with this whereby some functionality (to name a few) can’t be […]