After a recent upgrade I ran into a problem with Exchange 2010 no longer accepting WinRM connections from an external address. This caused an error to appear in the Exchange Management Console stating it could no longer connect. Fixing this problem was pretty straight forward; Open the Server Manager Select the correct Server Goto Manage […]
Author: Jodrik
Login out of Windows 2012 using Remote Desktop
Many system administrators will be using RDP to connect to the servers they manage. Usually after you are done you want to log-out but this seems to be gone in Server 2012. However, if you open the Start Menu and click on your username in the top-right corner you can select “Sign out”, which is […]
Lync 2010 on Server 2012 after upgrade
After upgrading to Server 2012 I ran into an issue that Lync would no longer start the Front-End service on the server. After trying several things I concluded to try and “reinstall” the Front-end server. After some crashes this gave me the following error: Error: An error occurred: “Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Deployment.UnknownObjectException” “Error accessing registry key “AppID\{9fa5c497-f46d-447f-8011-05d03d7d7ddc}”.”
Uninstalling ForeFront 2010 from Server 2012 after server upgrade
After doing several installations of Server 2012 on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 servers I became convinced that I should migrate the entire internal serverpark to 2012. I ran into several issues (which I will post later on) but most annoyingly of all is ForeFront 2010 on the servers. Note: Microsoftsoft has, since creation […]
Ghostery, browse without tracking
A lovely new was recently brought to my attention; Ghostery. Now for some of you who read my earlier posts relating Cookies I already old a strict regime when it comes to allowing most of the cookies but this digs a bit deeper and also disables alot of tracking. It’s a very nice tool and […]
Activating Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012
Open the Start menu and type: Slui.exe 0x3 This will allow you to change the product code which is required when using Enterprise installations.
Exchange 2010 not discovering AD, Information Store not starting
Moving around some Domain Controllers in our Active Directory today caused a major issue with our Exchange 2010 Server. All of a sudden the Information Store was no longer available and a long list of errors occured. Alot of them complaining about the RPC connection not being made to the AD discovery tool. Process STORE.EXE […]
NPO geeft valse voorlichting over cookies
Sinds kort is het niet meer mogelijk om de website van de publieke omroep te bezoeken zonder dat je “al” hun cookies accepteert. Dit doet de publieke omroep omdat ze je gedrag op hun website wil kunnen analyseren en voor gebruik van statistieken voor advertenties, juist datgene waartegen consumenten beschermt dienen te worden door de […]
Overheid kan meekijken in je bankzaken en nog meer
Wat zou u ervan vinden om te horen dat de Nederlandse overheid tot en met 25 maart 2020 de mogelijkheid heeft om al uw bankzaken, creditcardbetaling en noem zo maar op te kunnen inzien? Dit kan zij sinds het faillissement van DigitNotar.
Exchange 2010 SP1 giving “ACCESSDENIED” on trying to access AD
When attempting to use the Test-SystemHealth it returns the following error: WARNING: Active Directory server DC1.Example.local is down or unreachable. This error could also be the result of a network or permissions problem. Error: Access is denied. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070005 (E_ACCESSDENIED)) This can be avoided by using the following script directly into the Exchange […]