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A client has recently merged and are looking at doing a merging into a single forest/domain structure - but up until that happens, they are keen to get the basics, immediately - such as file, calendar and address book sharing - all of which is fair enough. It had been a while since I looked…
Continue readingLooks interesting - haven't used it yet - but will be labbing it up in the next few days https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=46899 https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3062591
Continue readingI implemented SCCM 2012 for a client a last week and, as per our usual process, implemented an SCCM client health check script which runs as part of a computer start up script in a group policy object. Came back after a few days - nothing had updated.... "odd" I thought.... but this client had…
Continue readingConsistency.... its what we spend a great deal of time fixing for clients.... sure, they see us writing standardisation documents for AD/Exchange/Group Policy/Logon scripts etc..... but really, what we are doing is trying to delivery consistency - simply because the more things that are consistent within an environment, the more logical it is - and…
Continue readinghttp://www.bink.nu/windows-8-has-reached-the-rtm-milestone I've made the (fair) assumption that server will become available at the same time as the client. Im not convinced that many people (in the corporate space) actually care about Win 8.... part of that is because Win7 is a bloody good OS.... if Win-7-to-go existed... i think there would be even less interest…
Continue readingSo - ive been reading up on the features of Windows 2012, particularly around AD (dont get me wrong, the hyperV stuff looks awesome - but so much of our recent work has been around AD cleanup, migration and re-design, its kind of a focus right now) The AD changes seem fairly minor, not bad…
Continue readingWindows "8" server beta got released the other day, as im sure every nerd-type person knows... There are some cool features in the beta release, around Hyper-V in particular.... as usual (for me) - i always focus on the other stuff that could be in there.... (its not a good personaility trait - i am…
Continue readingHi all, long time no post... been busy moving house (yay) and dealing with all the hassle and things that aren'y done around building a new house (boo) Anyhoo - recently i assisted a client to move from exchange 2007 to exchange 2010.... the client had completed the install and come configuration, but wanted us…
Continue readingSo i got an email from a client this morning saying "dont ask - but i have lost all of our staff users in AD - Help" to cut a long story short, the guys had gone into exchange 2010 EMC - and tried to remove staff mailboxes (for another reason i wont go into)…
Continue readingThis has come up twice in the last few months - and amazed me each time.... i just always thought it was commonly knowledge that taking snapshot of a DC is jsut something you dont do.... but apparently not. So - in order to point out that its not just me - here's a couple…
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