Brian Scheewe

Brian Scheewe is CTO of Advanced Data & Network Solutions. He brings deep technical leadership to the company's work in managed IT, networking, cybersecurity, and infrastructure strategy, with a strong background in industry certifications and hands-on problem solving. Brian writes about practical IT operations, security, and the technical decisions that help businesses build more reliable systems.

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Exchange

ECP 2013 redirects you to OWA 2010 or 2007

If you have a mailbox on an older Exchange server (2007 or 2010) and you are trying to login to Exchange 2013

Exchange

Exchange Recipient Filtering not working

Problem: Recipient filtering is configured via the Exchange Management Console by opening Recipient Filtering and checking "Block messages sent to recipients

Cisco

Registering voice-ports from a Cisco 881 SRST router to CME / UC500

The Cisco 881 router comes in an SRST flavor (C881SRST-K9) which includes 1 FXO and 4 FXS ports.  We recently ran into

Servers

VMDirectPath on Dell PowerEdge Servers with SD card for ESXi

We recently encountered an issue with VMware ESXi USB passthrough that is worth noting. On a Dell PowerEdge R and T series

OCS / Lync / Teams

GoDaddy won't issue a UCC cert for a Lync pool with a private domain name

A customer had a Lync 2010 environment with a pool name that used a private domain name and not an FQDN.  When

Virtualization

Convert thick disk to thin on ESXi free

Here are the steps to convert a thick VMDK file to thin.  Steps 2-4 are optional, but if you want to shrink

Cisco

Using Cisco 8945 IP phones with CME

We just finished testing the Cisco 8945 IP phone with CME using SCCP and it worked great.  Point to point video works

Cisco

CME 8.8 upgrade and Exchange UM voicemail problem

We recently upgraded to the new Cisco CallManager Express (CME) version 8.8 so that we could try out the new 8945

Microsoft

Centrally setup Windows XP machines to use the new 2008 Group Policy Preferences

With the new 2008 Group Policy Preferences there are some great new tweak tools to manage without the need for login scripts.

Exchange

Public folders and upgrading to Exchange 2010

We recently had some problems with Public folder synchronization during an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration.  Public folders were not syncing

Servers

Virtualization Now!

Ten Reasons You Should Already Be Using Virtualization For Your Server Environment According to Intel: single most important issue in IT Virtualization

Microsoft

Add roles features or Windows Update on 2008 R2

The problem is that Windows Updates will not run properly (giving you various errors) and when Roles or Features are selected under

Exchange

Simplify Exchange 2010 OWA URL

Exchange Outlook Web Access is a wonderful feature, but directing users to access it on their own can be a patience testing