How to Add a New Domain to Office 365 Adding a new Domain in Office 365 is a pretty straight forward process, in this post I will do a quick walk through of how to add a new Domain to an existing tenant. To get started you need to be logged in to the Tenant…
Error creating new Mailbox Database Exchange 2010 When you try and create a new Mailbox Database, you receive the following Error: How do we resolve this error, to start we need to look at our current AD Server settings in Exchange and that can be checked using the following cmdlet. Get-ADServerSettings As we can see…
Skype for Business Front-End Service stuck on Starting caused by McAfee This is a common issue and can be resolved by running the following cmdlet in PowerShell. Get-Childitem cert:\LocalMachine\root -Recurse | Where-Object {$_.Issuer -ne $_.Subject} | Format-List *</pre if no certificates have been resolve, then it means that we need to move on and try…
Create Exchange 2010 Database Availability Group (DAG) In this post, I will go through the process of creating a DAG in Exchange 2010 SP3. This post will cover the creation of the DAG using Exchange Management Shell. Like any other service the DAG has some pre-requisites that needs to be met. Firstly, let’s go ahead…
Configure Exchange 2010 Client Access Name Space. In this post, I will look at how to configure the internal and external name spaces for the client access service in Exchange 2010. To get started with the configuration we need to make sure of the name space design once this has been decided on then the…
How to Transfer FSMO Roles In this quick and short but powerful post, I will look how to transfer FSMO roles from one server to another. I will be doing this using CMD as well as PowerShell. To get start CMD needs to be run as Administrator and the following cmdlet can be used. Ntdsutil.exe…
How to find FSMO Roles Holder Active Directory In this post, I will look at two ways you can find out which Domain Controller holds the FSMO Roles. The first option is to use CMD and run it as Administrator, then run the following cmdlet. NETDOM /Query FSMO Now let’s go ahead and get the…
Create GPO to Enable RDP on Servers and Create new GPO Link using PowerShell In this pot, I will look at a basic Group Policy configuration to enable Remote Desktop on servers in a particular Organizational Unit. I will also showcase how to link a GPO to a different OU using Windows PowerShell. To get…
Create Exchange 2010 Client Access Array In this post, I will cover how to create an Exchange 2010 SP3 Client Access Array. Exchange 2010 introduced a new logical structure to the Exchange organization: The Client Access server array. When a Client Access server array is defined in an Active Directory site, it serves as a…
Installing Exchange 2010 SP3 and Rollup 17 Exchange SP3 can be downloaded from the following link. To get started you will have to extract the content for the file before the setup starts. Once the extract is completed, navigate the location where the files has been extracted and click on Setup.exe, the Exchange upgrade setup…
Installing Exchange on Server 2012 R2 show’s no Information When you install Exchange 2010 on Windows Server 2012 R2, you will notice that when you open the Management console that you cannot see any servers or modify any properties and the screen will look as follow. To resolve this issue, you will have to install…
Conditional Access for Office 365 Apps In this post, I will go over the steps of how to create a conditional access policy for Office 365 Apps using Azure AD. What is conditional access? conditional access allows the administrator to fine-tune how users can access the cloud resources. These policies can allow you to restrict…