Upgrade a Domain Controller from Evaluation to Full
Today I am busy upgrading all my windows licenses and when trying to activate a Windows Server 2012 DC I ran into the following: “Changing this Windows edition is not…
Mailbox Exports stuck in a Queued Status
Today I am exporting mail to PST so I can start consolidating my Exchange Servers and when running the New-MailboxExportRequest command you might find that the mailboxes just stay in…
SCCM 2012 Client Updates – Waiting to Install
Today I prepared a new notebook and after joining it to the domain the SCCM client automatically installed as it should. However after the install and reboot all updates that…
Windows 7 & Outlook 2007/2010 Password Prompts
Since the upgrade of Exchange 2010 from SP2 to SP3 and running office 2010 x64 on Windows 7 x64 I notice that outlook keeps prompting a handfull of users for…
SCCM 2012 SP1 Upgrade SQL Error
Today I ran the SP1 upgrade for SCCM 2012. The first thing you come across is that you need ADK installed for SP1. The download is around 4GB, the first…
DPM 2012 Error ID 53
Today I installed a new DPM 2012 server. The installation went through fine and all backups were running well until the upgrade to SP1. Seems like a small bug as…
Exchange 2010 SP3 Event ID Warning 10001
Today out of the blue I started getting the following warning on one of my Exchange Servers: Mailbox cleanup could not completely remove the mailbox for user following mailbox removal.…
Exchange 2010 SP1, SP2 or Sp3 Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the “beremote()” process has open files.
Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the “beremote()” process has open files: The error listed above is not something to really stress about. If you running Symantec Backup Exec…
Exchange 2010 Service Pack Update Error – No more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper.
Today I encountered another error whilst doing an upgrade from Exchange 2010 SP2 to SP3. This was an error on my part as I will explain shortly. The error you…
Exchange 2010 SP3 Upgrade Error
Today whilst busy updating one of my other sites I encountered the following error: Some controls aren’t valid. Setup previously failed while performing the action “Install”. You can’t resume setup…