Exchange
Last week, Microsoft released patches to resolve four severe vulnerabilities in Exchange Server that are being exploited by a Chinese state-sponsored group called HAFNIUM. At the time, Microsoft said that the bugs were "limited, targeted attacks”. Six days have passed and it's now being reported that over
Microsoft
Now that we have installed Teams with Microsoft Business Phone System for clients (and passed the Teams exam) we want to share some thoughts on the product. We've been doing VoIP phone systems since Cisco CallManager 3 back in 2003 when it still looked like Selsius CallManager. Over
Certifications
Today I took the Managing Microsoft Teams (MS-700) exam and I passed! Lately we've had some clients express interest in using Teams as a phone system and I wanted to take the opportunity to fully understand the capabilities. Before I share thoughts on the exam, I want to
Microsoft
Recently we setup and installed Teams with Microsoft 365 Business Voice using Yealink MP54 / T55a phones for a client. A post about replacing your business phone system with Teams will be forthcoming, but I wanted to post a quick resolution to a nagging issue we faced. After we registered the
Exchange
As an IT managed services company we're often asked to do various IT projects. We found a solution for moving email mailboxes from Exchange 2007 or 2010 to Exchange 2013 that can often go very slowly, even when the network and server resources are fast and abundant! The
Exchange
IT Support We had an issue when attempting to add a database copy for any mailbox databases in a new DAG. We received one of the following errors every time, regardless of the source or destination server. The seeding operation failed. Error: An error occurred while running prerequisite checks. Error:
Exchange
We had an issue with a client migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2013 where we couldn't access ECP on any of the new 2013 CAS servers. Instead we received the following: 500 Unexpected error : ( An error occurred and your request couldn't be completed. Please try again.
Microsoft
We had a problem with a group of Remote Desktop Servers sitting behind a Barracuda ADC Load Balancer. The client either couldn't connect, or they would connect to a different server even when they had a session open already on another server. There was a group policy change
Exchange
IT Support One of our clients was having an issue with backing up Exchange 2007 using Ahsay Online Backup Manager. The backups were failing nightly and Ahsay was returning the error CExBackup::backupService:HrESEBackupSetup: Error Number 0xc7fe1f45: Instance not found. A search of this error revealed that this error originated
Microsoft
By Thomas Manier - Posted Feb 24, 2012 5:30PM I wanted to give a quick tutorial on how to change registry keys through group policy. This is actually documented several times on the internet but very few give a clear understanding of the steps you need to take in
Microsoft
With the new 2008 Group Policy Preferences there are some great new tweak tools to manage without the need for login scripts. Windows XP machines are not compatible with these new GPOs without first installing an update for Group Policy Preference Client Side Extensions (CSE). This update is downloadable from
Exchange
We recently had some problems with Public folder synchronization during an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 migration. Public folders were not syncing up to the new Exchange 2010 server with the following error message in the logs: Event ID: 1020, Source: MSExchange Store Driver. The store driver couldn't