PowerShell: Cannot Be Loaded Because Running Scripts is Disabled
Mar24

PowerShell: Cannot Be Loaded Because Running Scripts is Disabled

KB ID 0001417 Problem If you’ve arrived here, you are trying to run a script, and you cant; PS C:\Users\{User-name}> .\{script-name}.ps1 .\{script-name} : File C:\Users\{User-name}\{script-name} cannot be loaded because running scripts is disabled on this system. For more information, see about_Execution_Policies at http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=135170. At line:1 char:1 + .\{script-name} + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +...

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FreeRDP Error: 0x2000D
Mar24

FreeRDP Error: 0x2000D

KB ID 0001416 Problem The day after I had deployed some RDP Web access servers, I got the call that all the Linux (Intel NUC Thin clients), could not connect to the RDP farm, all the windows machines were fine? Error [08:19:16:178] [21254:21255] [ERROR][com.freerdp.core.transport] – BIO_read returned a system error 14094438:SSL routines:ssl3_read_bytes:tlsv1 alert internal error [08:19:16:178] [21254:21255]...

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Remote Desktop Services: Can’t Remove Dead Server
Mar22

Remote Desktop Services: Can’t Remove Dead Server

KB ID 0001415 Problem I was doing some RDS work for a client today, and it would seem that at some time in the past their RDS Licensing server had died, it had been replaced, and everything was working OK. But when I was adding roles to the new servers, this kept popping up; The following server in this deployment are not part of the server pool 1. Server-Name The servers must be added to the server pool. I could have ignored the...

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There is Currently No Route to the Mailbox Database
Mar21

There is Currently No Route to the Mailbox Database

KB ID 0001413 Problem Background: Just introduced Exchange 2016 into Exchange 2013 Environment. Mailboxes on Exchange 2016, can send external mail and internal (to Exchange 2013) mail. No mail flows from Exchange 2013 to Exchange 2016. External mail to Exchange 2016, (which flows thought the 2013 server,) also fails. Event ID 5006 Cannot find information about owning Mailbox Server {server-path} for database {database-path} in routing...

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Exchange: Blank Certificate Name
Mar20

Exchange: Blank Certificate Name

KB ID 0001411 Problem You see this a lot with 3rd party (purchased) certificates, especially if you have imported them from something else e.g. a web site, appliance, NetScaler, etc. The correct certificate, is there, it’s just got no name? Solution Open an MMC console (Start > Run > mmc {enter}) File > Add Remove Snap-in > Certificates > Select ‘Local Computer’ > Open Personal > Certificates > Locate...

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Exchange: Noderunner.exe High CPU and Memory Usage
Mar20

Exchange: Noderunner.exe High CPU and Memory Usage

KB ID 0001412 Problem After an Exchange 2007 to 2013 migration, the client emailed to say that noderunner.exe was maxing out the server memory and CPU. The server was working fine other wise. (I’d previously disabled the search index on the datastore, to speed up the migration, and had only re enabled it that day so I assumed that’s what the problem was, I disabled it once more and jumped on after hours for a look. You may...

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Connect to Office 365 Exchange PowerShell
Mar14

Connect to Office 365 Exchange PowerShell

KB ID 0001410 Problem If there’s one thing thats grown on me it’s PowerShell, After the last few versions of Exchange you can’t really escape it. So now we have so many clients with their Exchange in Office 365. The ability to connect to that, and use all your usual Exchange commandlets is a bonus! WARNING: This process may end up with you getting an “Access is denied” error, if you are using modern...

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Exchange Setup Error: Cannot Update Schema
Mar14

Exchange Setup Error: Cannot Update Schema

KB ID 0001409 Problem I had a nightmare with this, (this morning). Client had an Exchange 2007 Server in a sub domain, and I am migrating them to Exchange 2016 (via Exchange 2013). While attempting to deploy the Exchange 2013 Server, the ‘Readiness Checks’ failed; Error: The Active Directory Schema isn’t up-to-date, and this user account isn’t a member of the ‘Schema Admins’ and/or ‘Enterprise...

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VMware vSphere: Adding NFS Storage
Mar13

VMware vSphere: Adding NFS Storage

KB ID 0001408 Problem If you have some NFS storage, and you want to use it as a Datastore in your VMware environment, this is the procedure to follow. Pre-Requisites I’m assuming you already have a network connection between your ESX servers and the NAS box, (i.e you have a VM Kernel NIC) on the same network. I’m also assuming you have the NFS setup correctly, in this example I’m using  a Buffalo NAS box. But you can...

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Migrating RD Web and RD Gateway Roles
Mar08

Migrating RD Web and RD Gateway Roles

KB ID 0001406 Problem I’ve got a job coming up to deploy some Duo two factor authentication into a clients RDS farm. To make things a bit easier for them I needed to migrate their RD Connection Broker. They had their Connection Broker, Gateway, and Web roles on one server, (which is not unusual, or incorrect). It turned out, that moving the Connection Broker, was going to be a major task, and it would be a lot easier to move the...

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