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Recently a client came towards the end of their migration to O365 - but still has a small number of mailboxes on-premise for various reasons. One of the last steps was to move the remaining on-premise mailboxes to the 2019-based exchange server. When doing so, webmail (and other services published via WAP) stopped working. After…
Continue readingI recently did a piece of work for a client - moving from Exchange 2010 to 2016. Nothing too exciting.... but they did have an interesting issue. Once migrating some of test mailboxes, inheritance in AD had to be enabled for a few admin accounts before they could connect via outlook and activesync - to…
Continue readingGot a call from a client who was having issues with the SQL instance on their SCCM server - and investigation showed that the SQL service was crashing due to various memory errors (event log and SQL logs) - but the descriptions weren't overly helpful. The SQL exception.log shows errors such as 09/12/19 12:23:58 spid…
Continue readingSCCM 1906 released! - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sccm/core/plan-design/changes/whats-new-in-version-1906 If you want it right now - you can opt-in via the fast ring script - https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=2099733 Another belting release from the SCCM team - while some releases have different focuses over time - generally releases have tended to have something which makes day-to-day admin life a bit easier for…
Continue readingConfigMgr 1906 was released today, it wont show up immediately in you ConfigMgr consoles, and I'd suggest to wait a week (or so) before applying to your production environments, but there are some really cool features. The pick of features for me at the moment are: Application groups Create a group of applications that you…
Continue readingNCSI has been around for a long time now. It can be disabled by using the policy at Computer Configuration\Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Internet Communication Management \ Turn off Windows Network Connectivity Status active tests however, disabling it has impacts on technologies such as direct access. Recently a client was getting prompted for auth form their proxy…
Continue readingMYOB - other small business owners may be familiar with this software.... its not good software and its expensive.... but it is one of the options out there for small business. Anyway - upgrade MYOB server edition When performing this upgrade, it automatically resets the Library location back to the default - which is not…
Continue readingI still have an older MFP - the HP CM1312nfi The printer is detected and installs fine on Windows 10, the scanner however is not detected. The Microsoft support articles are junk... "Windows will automatically find your devices" - with no assistance on what to do if Windows doesn't find your device. The HP site…
Continue readingThis is a follow up to this post : https://blog.adexis.com.au/2019/06/14/sccm-powershell-errors-after-moving-primary-site-server-via-site-failover/ Another issue i ran into this upgrade - which was far more interesting, was that all packages and task sequences which had windows 10 ticked within their "supported platforms" - the tick was now gone after upgrade. Now, before we go any further, i should…
Continue readingRecently i completed a somewhat challenging SCCM upgrade from: SCCM 2012 R2 Server 2008 SQL 2008 R2 2 SMS providers, 2 MP's, 130-odd DP's, SMP's 33,000 odd clients to: SCCM CB (1902 at time of upgrade) Server 2016 (latest the outsourcer would support) SQL 2016 (latest the outsourcer would support) Site server failover i know…
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