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AADConnect has a JSON file and the ability to export - and there are also various AADConnect documenters out there... but sometimes you just want to get a core piece of info without having to start the GUI of wade through many pages of JSON. Get-ADSyncConnector | select Name Note the name of your "internal"…
Continue readingToday i had a DC that was otherwise healthy, but reporting error 4612 and 5012 in the DFS Replication log, specifically: The DFS Replication service failed to communicate with partner <decommissioned DC name> for replication group Domain System Volume. The partner did not recognize the connection or the replication group configuration. My first port of…
Continue readingIn some truly bizarre circumstances, my previous wordpress host - hostgator, suspended my account a few days after paying for another 3 years. I suspect it had something to do with their "support" directing me to turn off automatic billing, actually cancelling the account instead of only turning off billing. While frustrating - it would…
Continue readingWhen using SConfig on a server core install, i was getting the following error had similar issues when trying to configure the NIC using powershell. Thanks very much to Mike and his post @ https://mikeconjoice.wordpress.com/2017/01/24/windows-server-core-error-swbemobjectex-invalid-index/ for pointing out that it was because IPv6 was not bound to the adapter. Using the following powershell worked for…
Continue readingEmail chain with panasonic support below.... asking for the totally unreasonable option to setting a timer for auto-off within the "comfort cloud" app. Long version below - short version, Panasonic seem to have some mind-blowingly unhelpful people working for them.... go with a different brand. My initial request via web form Support type: ContactUs(Feedback or…
Continue readingThis is a somewhat niche issue - which is why im documententing it here. Scenario Exchange migration to exchange online which i came into approx 75% of the way through - so i don't have any history on why some things have happened (and there is no useful doco) Tenant wide retention policies are in…
Continue readingWorking at a client whom are approx 75% of the way through their migration to exchange online - and there are some odd things im running into - so here's one of them. The scenario and issue Exchange hybrid setup, with servers on prem and EXO active. Active mailboxes in both. Mail flow from on…
Continue readingRecently I had an exceedingly poor experience with my external DNS provider, Namecheap. After they had some mail issues , their 2FA emails weren’t coming through…. I could see they weren’t even hitting O365… but of course, their support refused to acknowledge this – and went down a path of (bizarrely) insistently asking for a…
Continue readingIm just finishing up on a project where i was upgrading a bunch of servers from 2012 R2 to 2019 or 2022 (depending on what the associated app supported), including a bunch of SQL clusters. I've always been SQL adjacent - working wit/upgrading/installing SQL for other products to utilise... so i have some incidental knowledge…
Continue readingWhen installing, seemingly randomly i will get the following in the application event log and msi log for CrEdge Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates. Once you download updates and restart your device, rerun the installer. This is particularly frustrating as The device has all current Windows updates applied The install works…
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