Exchange 2007 message stuck in submission queue
Came across an issue today, with our exchange 2007 environment where a user had tried to send a large email (I know limits should be set to disallow this ideally). The email was held in the submission...
View ArticleTime Sync between domain controllers
We had an issue with the time on a domain controller that was running on Hyper V. First thing to note was that MS recommend virtual domain controllers do not get their time from the host server which...
View ArticleWindows Time reset for NTP
To reset the time settings back to default run the following commands. open a command prompt. net stop w32time w32tm /unregister w32tm /register net start w32time There should now be no setting for...
View ArticleReconnect a disabled shared mailbox Exchange 2007
When a mailbox is set to shared the user account becomes disabled. This means that you then cant use the wizard to re-enable the mailbox as the user account isn’t available for selection. You can...
View ArticleExchange 2013 message tracking with Powershell
The Exchange 2013 Admin Centre has some basic message tracking functions, but if you require more detail, you must use Powershell. The below command will interrogate the logs and return time/date,...
View ArticleFailure on stage 3 of 10, SharePoint 2010 Config wizard cant connect to...
Came across a strange issue when trying to add a new server to an existing farm. This had been working fine, but had started to fail almost immediately, after entering the server name and config DB,...
View ArticleEnumerating files and folders to a specified folder depth
Using Powershell, i wanted to get a list of only folder names for a specified directory. I didn’t want the entire sub-folder tree for all of the folders, only the ‘top level’ folders. The command...
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Opening Visio 2013 documents in SharePoint 2010
Our clients now have Office 2013 installed so documents are stored in the new docx, xlsx format. Some people have Visio, which now saves files as vsdx. SharePoint 2010 by default is not aware of...
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Cannot complete transfer of calls in Lync / SfB
After installing a Skype for Business environment internally which co-existed with our lync 2010 infrastructure, users lost the ability to forward inbound PSTN calls from external numbers. The fix...
View ArticleConnecting to a remote Powershell session
To connect to the Microsoft Skype for Business servers both in house and in the cloud I use the following commands: $credential=get-credential “DOMAIN\USERNAME“ $session= New-PSSession...
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