Exchange Size Limits
Exchange Size Limits KB ID 0001368 Problem When attempting to send an email from Outlook via Exchange, you see a message like the one below. The following files weren’t attached because adding them would cause the message to exceed the maximum size limit of {Size} MB: {File-Name} Or, when someone attempts to send a message to one of your mailbox users they get an NDR that looks like this. Remote Server returned ‘550 5.2.3...
Remove Failed DC from Active Directory
Remove Failed DC KB ID 0001860 Problem To remove a ‘dead’ domain controller from Active directory you need to perform a metadata cleanup. In the context of Microsoft’s Active Directory, metadata cleanup refers to the process of removing remnants of a failed or improperly demoted domain controller from the Active Directory database. Active Directory is a directory service that stores information about objects on a...
Migrate to Microsoft Entra Connect
Migrate to Microsoft Entra Connect KB ID 0001857 Problem You want to migrate from Microsoft Azure AD Connect to Microsoft Entra ID connect. Let me let you into a secret, (at time of writing) Entra ID connect and Azure AD connect ARE THE SAME THING, if you go to download Entra ID connect, the file you will download is called AzureADConnect.msi. So what you want to do is, upgrade Azure AD Connect. If your existing Azure AD connect is...
Microsoft Edge Notification?
Microsoft Edge Notification KB ID 0001855 Problem This is the second time I’ve had this problem, luckily it took me so long to figure it out the first time, this time I was fine. On my mac I use Edge as the browser for all the work applications. But when it had a notification for me like this. Despite my best efforts, it was not obvious what it was telling me. Solution: Microsoft Edge Notification Another clue is the...
Exclude One Computer from GPO
Exclude One Computer from GPO KB ID 0001852 Problem You have a requirement that you want one computer (or a group of computers) NOT to have a specific GPO applied. If that is the case, then this is how to simply achieve that goal Note: The same procedure can be used to Exclude a GPO from one user (or a group of users). Solution : Exclude One Computer from GPO Let’s find the computer in question, in my case it’s called PNL-ZERTO-2022,...
Considerations Before Upgrading Functional Levels
Upgrading Functional Levels KB ID 0001851 Problem For over twenty years, I’ve been involved with domain migrations, and I’ve had to upgrade both domain and forest functional levels thousands of times. I’ve also had to deal with many clients who were somewhat nervous when they knew that I was updating, their forest and the domain functional levels. I’m not sure if it’s just embedded in IT folklore that something horrible might happen,...