This article describes how to get the MAC addresses of all member Network Interface Cards (NICs ) in Native Windows Network Teams present in a Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 using PowerShell. There are lot of instances where the network communications fail when we are teaming up the incorrect network interfaces. Especially when the team members…
Leave a CommentThis article describes how to add UPN suffixes to a forest. Adding these suffixes gives you the ability to use a friendly user-logon name that does not match the domain’s or parent domains’ naming structure. Adding a UPN Suffix to a Forest Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts. 2. Right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts…
Leave a CommentOne Liner in PowerShell to provide the following information . 1.Domain Controllers 2. Forest 3. Ipv4Address 4.OperatingSytem 5.Is the Server a Global Catalog First we will start by running a one liner to give us the domain controllers Get-ADDomainController If any of you are like me i want to see less, so below we…
Leave a CommentMicrosoft released a tool to help you find the right Office 365 plan for your organisation . This tool allows you to select what you need from Office 365 Link to tool : PlanSelectorTool
Leave a CommentA quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain One of the nice features introduced in Windows Server 2010 “Server…
Leave a CommentYou can adjust the junk e-mail filter so that it classifies more or fewer messages as “junk.” IMPORTANT: Junk e-mail protection is available in Outlook for Mac 2011 for all supported e-mail accounts except Exchange. On the Tools menu, click Junk E-mail Protection. Choose the level of junk e-mail protection that you want. NOTE: Unless the level…
Leave a CommentIntroduction: Careful consideration should be made before installing Certificate Services on the Windows Server 2012. A proper CA hierarchy should be design along with Naming standards, CA names cannot be more than 64 characters in length. Naming convention rules which applied to Server 2008 R2 still holds good for Server 2012 such as Considerations:…
Leave a CommentAbout DKIM You can help prevent spoofing by adding a digital signature to outgoing message headers using the DKIM standard. This involves using a private domain key to encrypt your domain’s outgoing mail headers, and adding a public version of the key to the domain’s DNS records. Recipient servers can then retrieve the public key to decrypt…
Leave a CommentIn Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) 2008 or VMM 2008 R2 or VMM 2012 R2, pending hosts are cluster nodes that VMM discovers and that are not currently being managed by VMM. To add pending hosts to Virtual Machine Manager In the VMM Administrator Console, click the Hosts view. In the Filters area, expand Status, and then select the…
Leave a CommentToday i started building new servers installed windows updates and asked to restart. After restart i was prompted with this “beauty” of a message. First thing i tried to restart the VM with no luck and the same message come back . After some digging i found this article: http://blog.powerbiz.net.au/fixes/we-couldnt-complete-the-updates-undoing-changes-error-on-windows-server-2012-r2/ Turns out turning of the…
Leave a CommentDuring my fun and games Installing and Configuring Exchange 2016 with Hybrid Office 365 i come across an annoying point when running the “Enable-RemoteMailbox” Command Error: “Active Directory operation failed on Rock.solid.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information:Insufficient access rights to perform the operation.” Looking at this error i remembered that i have seen…
Leave a CommentHow to Disabled OWA Signatures in Office 365 for all Staff. This is normally done if a 3rd Party email branding software like exclaimer or CodeTwo is being used. Native to Office 365 (Exchange Online) there is a great way to prevent users from Enabling Signatures in OWA : Disable OWA Signatures. First lets create a…
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