Introduction Cloud Storage is great! it allows you to have flexibility of where some (or all) of your data is and can be accessed from almost anywhere. The down side is that the only thing that is really protecting that data is a password. Side note whenever possible enable 2 factor authentication for everything. While…
I’m sure we’ve all been in the spot, where a Windows Server for some reason or another decided to run windows updates and now needs a reboot.
Introduction If you’ve ever had to support an RDS/Terminal Services environment, then you know the headache that Adobe Reader 10/11/DC Protected mode can be. In most cases you’ll need to disable Adobe Reader protected mode to enabled functionality for end users. The “Normal” Manual Way Adobe Reader Protected mode generally will block you from printing…
Introduction Hopefully I can get this news to you guys before you run into a situation I had. To make a very very very long story short I spent 14 hours on the phone with Microsoft over 2 updates for 2 clients. Short version: Microsoft Update KB3177723 and KB3179575 breaks everything KB3177723 – Removing Egypt’s Time…
Hello Everyone, Earlier today I was deploying a new WSUS server and found an interesting little bug. On Server 2012 R2 WSUS servers, Windows 10 client devices are listed as Windows Vista. Obviously from a patching and management point of view this could cause some problems. Luckily Microsoft has released a patch for Server 2012…
Introduction This morning I was setting up Azure AD Connect for a client who will be migrating to Office365. As a part of the project, I had to configured Azure AD Connect on one of their servers for Password Synchronization. Microsoft has updated the tool and removed the scheduled task for Azure AD Synchronization. Azure…
It’s time for another TDSheridanLab Quick Tip! We all have to copy large amounts of data at some time or another. Whether it’s because we bought a new computer or because we’re doing a migration. Either way one of the simplest ways to do and retain file/folder attributes is RoboCopy. RoboCopy has been around since…
Hello Everyone, It’s time for another TDSheridan Lab Quick Tip! Today’s Quick Tip is about Microsoft Exchange 2013. So you’re installing Exchange 2013 into your environment, this could be because you’re migrating off of an older version of Exchange, or you want to add some redundancy into your environment.
Introduction Exchange 2013 isn’t exactly new at this point, but with every cumulative update (CU) Microsoft seems to find more things to change. Since the release of Exchange 2013 there are 3 log files that have caused some issues for me in my professional life. So much so I had to write The Daily Exchange…