do I dare ignore what I see in the logs if my AV is giving me a clean bill of health? Can I really afford to rebuild this server when things seem mostly ok?
On-Premises
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As a result of finding that eDiscovery results were not complete I needed to re-index the mailbox database on an Exchange 2010 server. I found that while the information is out there, it’s not so easy to find. You may also need to re-index if your index files get too […]
Recently a hotfix for Windows 7 that needs to go out to every Windows 7 computer has had many people scratching their heads at the annoyance of having to touch so many computers. A HotFix is something you click on a link and download to an individual machine one by […]
The most difficult thing about troubleshooting a system is that such much of the skill is dependent on experience. When a symptom looks like something you’ve seen before but isn’t you can quickly find yourself going down a very dark tunnel. Such can be the case with a corrupt TCPIP […]
This morning I worked with a client who had added a Windows 2012 R2 server to an SBS 2011 environment. That environment had several other member servers and a stand-alone server as well. The complaint was that on any server except for the new server, he could open up the […]
In our newly recovered SBS 2008 environment we have not restored our client’s Windows Server 2012 DC. When attempting to join a freshly installed Windows 7 VM via http://connect we hit the following error: Connect Computer Error Details ERROR: Connecting to the network Cannot complete this function Now, we then […]
Having a reliable external time server for your domain controller to sync with is important. By default some Windows servers are now configured to sync with the NTP server windows.time.com. My personal experience and that of some of my colleagues is that the windows time service is not the most […]
We run into a lot of ACL corruption issues and access issues when a folder has not been disinherited properly. The following is the best method for disinheriting permissions a folder receives from its parent: Right click on the folder and click Properties Click the Advanced button Click the Change […]
This trick comes to be via my Active Directory study group. I suggest that everyone join a usergroup and/or a study group. It’s not that we don’t know AD, it’s that we forget or miss new features. A refresher course is fun too. Occasionally a computer will come “disjoined” from […]