I spent many hours troubleshooting and opening several support tickets with Microsoft, but in the end, I was able to fix the problem on my own. I believe it would be helpful for others to share my documentation of these procedures. The help from Microsoft O365 support was quite disappointing. They seemed to repeatedly ask the […]
Cluster transition states during Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade To ensure uninterrupted operation of cluster workloads during the Cluster OS Rolling Upgrade process, a technique is employed whereby a cluster workload is moved from a node running an older version of Windows Server to a node running a newer version. This is achieved through the utilization […]
Occasionally, Microsoft renames products and services to clarify their purpose, apply a consistent brand, or combine them into a single offering. Below is a list of recent product name changes that are part of (or are related to) Microsoft 365. Each entry has a link to the announcement, a link to the official product page, […]
Change/Update/Replace SSL Certificate on Windows Server 2012 R2 ADFS/WAP Servers You need a cert that has a private key that corresponds to the certificate. If you don’t make sure that you export the PFX and be sure to include the private key. It’s easy to miss this in the export wizard. After you have the […]
What to do Here’s what needs to be done to get things up and running on Server 2012. First go here and download Security Essentials. Once downloaded right click on the (mseinstall.exe) executable en choose properties. Locate the ‘Compatibility’ tab and go to the ‘Compatibility mode’ section (see first screenshot below). Check “Run this program […]
As you may be aware, support for both Windows Server 2003 and 2003 R2 is coming to end on July 14th 2015. With this in mind, IT professionals are in midst of planning migration. This guide will provide steps on migrating AD CS from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2012 R2. In this demonstration […]
To uninstall VMware Tools in Windows XP: Click Start > Control Panel. Open Add/Remove Programs. From the list of installed software, select VMware Tools. Click Remove. When prompted, click Yes to restart Windows. Once restarted, open My Computer and navigate to C:\Program Files and remove the VMware folder if it exists. To uninstall VMware Tools […]
You try to install the Hyper-V Integration Services (Drivers) in a VM with Windows 2003 and you get the following error: “An error has occurred: Internal Error“ No errors in the event log we decided to start by installing the latest updates for that VM. Unfortunately not all updates were able to install properly, in […]
Now I have installed Windows Server 2003 R2 Standard x64 Edition with SP2 on a new VM. I set up the Network Adapter to use the same virtual switch (“External WiFi”) that I’ve been using for my VM’s. But this time, my Windows Server 2003 VM cannot connect to the network. According to the many sources […]
Configuring Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine NIC teaming is a new feature of Windows Server 2012, which allows multiple network adapters to be placed into a team for the purpose of providing network fault tolerance and continuous availability. When one of the network adapters fail, the other one takes over […]