Windows
Event ID 2107 Exchange 2010
Today after a power failure at my other site (yes power drops a lot) I noticed that after the main DC came back online that Exchange was complaining it could not see the DC. Normally the Topology for Exchange should be CDG177101171 it was showing CDG10010000. I went...
Rebooting a Windows 2008 R2 Server Remotely Fails
I installed updates and rebooted my DC in a remote site only to find out that terminal services was ended but the actual server did not reboot. I ran shutdown -i from another machine and got the famous reply: 1115 A system shutdown is in progress. I...
Setup RRAS Windows Server 2012
As part of my cleanup and decommission of Small Business Server 2003 I installed RRAS on my Windows Server 2012 DC. First thing I did was to give the server a bit more memory, being a virtual server quite easy to do. Second thing was to add additional NIC's to the...
Moving DHCP Database from SBS 2003 to Windows 2008 R2
Today i decided to move my DHCP from the old Small Business Server 2003 as their is no longer support for this version of Windows and moving it to a newer OS will be better. The move was pretty straight forward, you can look at the link below, i successfully exported...
DotNetFrameWork 3.5 Feature installation failure Windows Server 2012
Today while busy with SCCM and SCOM 2012 installations the feature Dotnetframework 3.5 needs to be installed. Initially by selecting the feature and choosing install it fails at 50%. Quick fix is the point to an alternative location and choose the DVD where the files...
Windows Server 2012 & Exchange 2010
So in a few weeks i will be introducing Windows Server 2012 into my environment that has Windows 2008 R2 DC's with Exchange 2010. Microsoft have no official support yet with just running Windows Server 2012 DC's with Exchange 2010 so i will run the current 2008 R2...