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…
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…
Exchange 2010 SP2 and Anti-Virus
Today I installed a new Anti-Virus product on my Exchange Servers, ESET. The nice thing with ESET is that it automatically sets exclusions as it detects what is installed, so…
Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 5v2
Microsoft released the updated version of this Rollup a few days ago. I have installed it in my lab where I initially had Rollup 5 i installed and after rebooting all 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…
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 Reports
After doing SP1 beta update for SCCM 2012 i still had no reports showing. I went and checked the SSRS log and found the following error in the log file:…
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 SP1 Beta Upgrade
Decided to upgrade SCCM 2012 to SP1 beta. Thought it should be a relatively easy process until the installation of ADK. The deployment kit downloads over 3GB of data which…
System Center Configuration Manager 2012 and Reporting Services
So today i went to install reporting services for SQL 2008 R2 and came across the following error when trying to add an additional feature in the SQL setup: “The…
Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 5
Recently MS released Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP2, I downloaded this version and ran an update on my test servers, the update was then pulled from MS site due to DAG…
Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V 3 VHDX disks
So i decided to installed another Hyper-V server using Windows Server 2012 and i created another Exchange server to add to my DAG. I thought using .VHDX VM’s is great…