I ran into this issue…when trying to activate an expired evaluation copy of Server 2016. It wouldn’t let me update the product key. Error “Error: 0xC004F069 On a computer running Microsoft Windows non-core edition, run ‘slui.exe 0x2a 0xC004F069’ to display the error text” Solution Find available target editions DISM.exe /Online /Get-TargetEditions Change your target […]
At my day job, we are getting ready to open a new office. It’s going to be a relatively small office, but we still wanted to have a local domain controller on hand for authentication, DNS, DHCP, etc. We decided that this would be a physical host, and since we weren’t going to run any […]
Enable Outlook Anywhere on Exchange 2010 and 2016 Redirect: mail, and autodiscover to Exchange 2016, leave casarray.domain.local DNS record pointing to Exchange 2010. CasArray: CasArray DNS Record will still use the Exchange 2010 (direct RPC will still connect to the CasArray) When migrating mailboxes to Exchange 2016, default MAPI over HTTP will kick in, and […]
If you add a static IP in a core server, you may see that the auto configuration is on and giving a 169.0.0.0 number as the preferred address and the new static IP as the duplicate address. This will not work. When using a Core server, use the following steps to fix the issue. 4 […]
When you first install Exchange, you will notice that by default the database that is created doesn’t have a friendly name. The database is also created in the default install location of Exchange. The odds are you’ll want to rename the database, and best practices say you should split out the .edb and log files […]
You can use Azure Active Directory Connect (AADC) to synchronize one or more on-premises Active Directories to Azure Active Directory. Once additional directories are added to AADC, it may not be obvious how to remove a directory. Here’s how to do it. First, let’s look at our example which syncs two directories, theguillets.com and contoso.com to the same AAD […]
In Exchange 2010/2016, you might come across a strange error as shown below when sending email: Failed to process message due to a permanent exception with message Invalid named property Solution: To fix this problem, you need to move the mailbox to another store with a specific switch: New-MoveRequest “User” -DoNotPreserveMailboxSignature -TargetDatabase Store1 Once the […]
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 […]