SBS Server: Remove / Uninstall Exchange
KB ID 0001455 Problem I’ve never really been a fan of SBS Server, Theres too many ‘wizards’, and things that are either automatically configured for you, or wont work until you’ve configured something else, I’ve a boat-load of problems with it over the years. Last week saw me retiring an SBS 2011 server, and migrating to a 2016 domain, with Exchange 2016 server. But how to gracefully remove Exchange 2010...
Exchange 2007 / 2010 Update Rollups Wont Apply
KB ID 0001454 Problem I had to do an SBS 2011, (Exchange 2010) to Exchange 2016 migration last week. The Exchange 2010 installation had not been updated for a long time, anyway common sense dictates that you should always upgrade the old Exchange server to the newest version first. But every time I did, the install launched, started, stopped, then rolled back the changes, and failed. Setup wizard for Update Rollup {version} for...
Dcpromo Error: No Other Active Directory Controllers?
KB ID 0001453 Problem I was trying to demote a domain controller yesterday morning, it was a 2008 R2 Domain controller, (in fact it was SBS 2011). I’d already added a nice new Server 2016 Domain Controller to the domain, and transferred all the FSMO roles, so I was surprised when I tried to gracefully demote the old DC and got this; You did not indicate that this Active Directory domain controller is the last domain controller...
Cisco Firewalls and PING
KB ID 0000351 Problem With regards to Ping, out of the box a Cisco firewall will allow you to ping the interface you are connected to, so in a normal setup inside clients can ping the inside interface, and the firewalls outside interface can be pinged from outside. OK – to understand pinging through a Cisco Firewall you need to understand that Ping is part of the ICMP protocol suite, and unlike other protocols is not “connection...