How to create a Free SendGrid Account at Azure #Azure #SendGrid #Email #Exchange #SMTP Relay
As we know, starting on November 15, 2017, outbound email messages that are sent directly to external domains (such as outlook.com and gmail.com) from a virtual machine (VM) are made available only to certain subscription types in Microsoft Azure. Outbound SMTP connections that use TCP port 25 were blocked. (Port 25 is primarily used for unauthenticated email delivery.), so you will notice the VM at Azure won’t send out email.
Export Icons From ConfigMgr Database
Hey CheckYourLogs fans! While working on a recent engagement, we wanted to populate a 1E Shopping site with a rather lengthy list of icons for client-facing applications. The admin had already painstakingly added all the icons into Software Center, but we...
Troubleshooting Tips – Fixed failed to publish blog after enable SSL certificate at Blog site issues #Azure #MVPHOUR #Blog #Word
Today, I try to publish blog via Microsoft word as usual, but it failed and show a warning message “Word cannot publish the pictures in this post. The most likely cause of this problem is that you do not have enough storage space. Contact your provider and try again, or choose a different picture provider”, this so weird and I am sure I didn’t change any settings at my blog site except enable SSL. I figure out the issues after do some research and test.
How to enable SSL certificate at website of Azure #Azure #SSL #BLOG #WEBSITE #Mpvhour
There are some reasons why your website should invariably have a SSL certificate, e.g. SSL certificates help to ensure your website security, website visitors will see it as a trustworthy Brand, also it will enhance the search engine ranking for your website. Today, I am going to show you how to enable SSL certificate at the website of Azure, let follow the step by step to complete it and make your website better at azure.
Troubleshooting Tips – How to delete Read-Only Storage Pool
Today, one of my clients told me their storage pool ran out of space, he removed 4 x 1TB old drives to install the new 4 x 3.8 TB drives, and then asked me to reconfigure storage pool for him, it looks very easy to change it.
Setup FindTime for Exchange Online
FindTime, a nifty little tool from the Microsoft Garage folks, aims to ease the circus surrounding scheduling a meeting. You know, the dance we do until we find a time where all the participants can meet? FindTime essentially uses a survey allowing everyone to vote on...
The Case of MRS Error Migrating Mailboxes to Exchange Online
Migrations from on-premises Exchange to Exchange Online don't often occur overnight. In many cases, they take weeks or months to complete. During this time, account passwords often change due to password policies, security initiatives, and the like. If the account...
The Case of Configuring DataON S2D-5219 as a Veeam Backup and Replica Target using Storage Spaces Standalone – #Veeam #DataON
Hey Checkyourlogs and Veeam Fans, Today, I'm going to look at a newly certified configuration from DataON and Veeam. Recently DataON has certified its DCS Storage Server as a Veeam Backup Target. You can check out the details here https://www.veeam.com/kb3019. ...
The Case of Veeam Failed to Process Replication Task Error: Boost::FileSystem::Create_Directory
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was called in to troubleshoot a weird error for some Veeam Replica Jobs that were failing. In the console, the error message was displayed as – Failed to process replication task Error: boost::filesystem::create_directory: The system...
The Case of lost connectivity to the Management Network on Azure Stack HCI #AzureStackHCI
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was called in to work on a case with a customer that had messed around with their Virtual Switch Settings in the Hyper-V Console on an Azure Stack HCI Cluster. I didn't get a lot of details but what I did get emailed was this "I was...
Using Azure Storage Explorer to remove unattached VM disks
In this blog post, Rickatron shows how you can use Azure Storage Explorer to remove unattached VHD files.
The Tale of 3 Veeam Backup Targets with Deduplication on Windows Server 2019 – #Veeam @Veeam #LowDiskSpace
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I wanted to discuss 3 Veeam Backup Targets at a customer that I'm working with. All three of these backup targets are running Windows Server 2019 with the deduplication feature enabled. We are having constant issues with one of the backup...
Storage Account Enhancements with Azure Disk Bursting
Azure Disk Bursting will be a big deal. In this post, Rickatron sheds some light.
The Case of VM’s not Showing up in Veeam One Hyper-V Infrastructure Object – #VEEAM #VEEAMONE #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I was working with a client that was having issues with one of their Veeam One Infrastructure Replica Targets not showing any Virtual Machine information. I checked the alerts on the server and noticed that there was an alert about the...
The Case of Veeam Error 32768 Failed to revert VM Snapshot – #Veeam @Veeam
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Had a ton of my Veeam Replica jobs fail at a customer site overnight. The issue presented itself with the following error messages: Failed to process replication task Error: Job failed ("Domain Controller_replica' failed to apply...
The Case of the missing Service Connection Point in Active Directory for Hyper-V
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, This case occurred today when I was writing a new Hyper-V Reporting Script. The script needed to hunt for all Hyper-V Services in a Domain. Everything seemed fine until I noticed that a couple of the servers were not picking up in the report....
Building a Hyper-V Report using AD and PSWriteHTML – #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I'm Writing you here tonight with some great news about a new Hyper-V and Azure Stack HCI report that I've been working on. I had a customer ask me to get them a list of all Virtual Machines running on Hyper-V Servers in their Domain. The...
Virtually There Post Ignite 2019 EP1 Tim Mangan #MSIX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJIoqaUyBjI In an effort to keep the community up to date on the latest developments with MSIX technology for packaging and deploying application I catch up yet again with Tim Mangan. Tim has been a fixture in the SoftGrid/Microsoft...
Can a Bridge Be a Destination? Co-Management for Windows Devices Has Become a Destination for Many Organizations
Announcements and speculation have been coming out fast and furious since the Microsoft Ignite conference, but one point stood out for me. The introduction of Microsoft Endpoint Manager, which merges device management services from System Center Configuration Manager...
The Case of Winrm.exe QC hanging in Windows Server 2019 – #PowerShell
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I had a call from a customer that had a PowerShell ISE session hang up on him on a Windows Server 2019 build. This was on a physical HPE Server that was brand new, and the OS install was just done this week. He took some screenshots for me, and...
My Whiteboards from #Techementor Orlando 2019 – @TechmentorEvent
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I wanted to write up a quick post sharing my whiteboards that we used for sessions at Techmentor (Live360) Orlando 2019. Writing on a smaller surface was a bit challenging for me, but it worked out quite well with my attendees. Below are...
The Case of some Health Status items not showing up in the Dell/EMC Open Manage Extension for Windows Admin Center #WindowsAdminCenter
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Just a quick post for you here tonight. I have been doing much work today with the Dell/EMC Open Manage extension for Windows Admin Center and found another little quirk. If you look below, only one of the Health Status panes showed up below....
The Case of Redfish not available on Dell/EMC Open Manage Extension for Windows Admin Center – #WindowsAdminCenter #Dell #DellEMC
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was working with a client that was having trouble getting the Dell/EMC Open Manage extension for Windows Admin Center working. What we should see is something like this: Instead, what we get is this: Here is a screenshot of a Server...
Review of the Dell EMC Open Manage Windows Admin Center Extension – #WindowsAdminCenter
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today we are going to have a look at the Dell EMC Open Manage extension for Windows Admin Center. Open Windows Admin Center and click on the Settings wheel to see the available extension. Dell EMC OpenManage Integration with Microsoft Windows...
How to keep Azure AD Connect Updated
Azure AD Connect is THE tool keeping many organization's Azure Active Directory in-step with their on-prem Active Directory. Microsoft updates this tool often, keeping it capable and reliable. Installing an upgrade to Azure AD Connect is usually straight forward...
New Azure Advisor Recommendations Category: Operational Excellence
In this post, Rickatron outlines a new Azure Advisor category – Operational Excellence.
How to Interpret Azure Security Alerts for Azure Storage Accounts
Azure Security Center alerts are a great way to provide that extra insight. In this post, Rickatron investigates Azure Security Alerts for Storage Accounts.
How and Why to Install Azure Storage Explorer
The Azure Storage Explorer desktop tool is a must-have for focused day-to-day usage of Azure Storage services.
The Case of Unable to connect to Windows 2008 R2 Servers via Windows Admin Center #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I am busy working away at my Windows Server 2019 Migration Labs and added some new Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controllers to the Lab. I figured wouldn't it be cool to show off managing these with Windows Admin Center prior to Migrating them over to...
Watch Live Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI Day – #MVPBuzz #Azure #AzureStack
Hey there Checkyourlogs Fans, Do we have an awesome day lined up for you? Today, we are hosting Azure Stack and Azure Stack HCI Day. We have speakers from all over the world including some great vendor coverage from DataON, Dell, Intel, and of course Microsoft....
Azure large file shares now available: How and where to use them
New Azure large file shares are now available for file shares up to 100 TiB.
Server AntiVirus Exclusions in Configuration Manager
One of the reasons why I really like System Center Endpoint Protection is its ease of management. This goes double when we're using it to manage servers, as we get to leverage all the stuff that Configuration Manager has in its database to target policies. By...
6 Things I’ve Learned about Azure Storage
Here is a list of 6 things to know about Azure storage services from the Rickatron.
PowerShell your way to upgrading storage accounts
In this blog post, Rickatron shows a simple PowerShell script that will upgrade storage accounts to V2.
The case of Low Disk Space caused by Goto Meeting – #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Usually, I would post about more technical topics, but this one is annoying me. I am an avid Goto Meeting User and typically record many my meetings for knowledge transfer and skills sharing with my clients and colleagues. What happens is every...
The Case of Partitioned Networks after Networking Changes in #AzureStackHCI
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, First off if you haven't had a chance make sure you come and join us in our Azure Stack HCI (Storage Spaces Direct) Community at http://slack.storagespacesdirect.com . There are currently almost 1000 members on the group, and we have the best...
The Case of the Other (Unplanned) Shutdown in #AzureStackHCI
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I was working with a customer, and I hit a known bug in Windows Server 2019 that shows servers as not being cleanly shut down when they are: I was doing some routine maintenance on an Azure Stack HCI Cluster Node and hit this today....
Critical Patch Tuesday for 2-Node #AzureStackHCI Customers
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, It is that time of the month again for patching our Production Clusters. This time we have a critical fix that has been added for a known 2-Node Azure Stack HCI reboot bug. It had been added in a separate August 2019 update and is now included...
Creating Azure Advisor Alerts? Let’s Do It!
In this post, Rickatron turns on an additional Azure Advisor service – alerts. See how they are set up.
The Case of Expanding a Full – Azure Stack HCI Nested Resilient Volume – #AzureStackHCI #S2D
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I had a call from a customer that had a full volume on one of their AzureStack HCI 2-Node Clusters. They have a few volumes created CSV01,02,03, and they are all set up to use Nested Relisiency. I found that the documentation out there...
Azure Security Center Threat Protection: Visibility for Storage Account Access
Azure Security Center provides additional visibility into many Azure services. In this post, Rickatron takes a look at how to handle Alerts.
How to: Set network access for storage accounts in Azure
Setting network access (Internet and Azure VNET) for storage accounts is a good idea. In this post, the Rickatron outlines the how-to.
Microsoft Renews Calls for Password-less Authentication
Microsoft recently released a whitepaper on password-less authentication, and it presents a good overview of Microsoft’s motivations and methodology for more secure and nearly frictionless authentication in modern computing. The renewed emphasis on eliminating...
Use Azure Storage Metrics to get Answers
Metrics are a great way to have quantification for Azure storage accounts. Rick Vanover tours this capability.
The Case of Failing Veeam Replicas – The RPC Function Call failed Function Name [InvokeTestConnection]
A quick post for you here tonight. I have been having some issues with some of my Replica jobs failing over the past few weeks with the following error message.
Failed to process task Error: The RPC server is unavailable.
RPC Function call failed. Function Name [InvokerTestConnection]
Enable Azure Security Center for Storage Accounts
If you saw the post last week about the Azure Blueprints and some others, you will know I’ve been focused a lot on modern Azure administration and security. One of the cornerstone pieces of content that Microsoft produces to aid security efforts in Azure is the Azure...
Thinking About Upgrading Azure Storage Account Configuration Options? Read This.
Azure releases new services all the time. Sometimes, individual services have new versions and upgrades. Let’s have Rick walk through an upgrade from v1 to v2 of general purpose storage account.
Tips to correctly delete Azure resource groups
Be sure when you are deleting a resource group – you are doing the right thing. It’s better to be sure than have unused resource groups in the Azure console.
Why, How and Where to use Azure Tags
Azure tags can be a construct to organize your resources.
Using Azure Blueprints: Implementation best practices to put security first
Azure Blueprints can help you implement Azure solutions confidently.
Creating an Azure Budget: A must for test-dev!
One of the brightest people I know likes to say that “the cloud is not a charity” and that is true. While I will add that many businesses go to the cloud because it is the right platform for their technology needs, the economics have to part of the process of managing this IT footprint
Restoring your Azure Virtual Machine to an Alternate Location – #MVPHour #AzureBackup
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, we are going to see how easy it is to clone my LAB Virtual Machine in my Azure Tenant to another VM. I wanted to do this because I have some upcoming presentations and a single Virtual Machine with Nested Hyper-V just wasn't enough. Step...
Azure Mobile App – Should you use it?
In a previous post when I highlighted the Azure Advisor, a message that came up on login. The message for Azure Advisor was actually only one of the things that caught my eye on login. The other was an invitation (?) or note to try the Azure mobile app.
What is Azure Blob Soft Delete and Should I use it?
In my last post about using the Azure Advisor for a review of services and their configuration used in Azure, I immediately went to address the high impact (or red) recommendations. Naturally, I then was to look at the medium recommendations and one of them caught my eye for one of my storage accounts: “Enable Soft Delete to protect blob data.” This had me thinking, what is soft delete? How and where should it be used. Here is the medium impact recommendation:
Is Azure Advisor Advice Worthwhile? Let’s see…
Today when logging in, I had a message about trying Azure Advisor recommendations. Normally, I dismiss login messages, but one thing caught my eye: free. Azure Advisor is a free set of recommendations the provide personalized, best practice information.
Windows 7: Good to the last drop
For the majority of organizations, Windows 10 adoption can't happen soon enough. The security enhancements bring on a sigh of relief in an age of Ransomware and devastating zero-day threats. There are, however, still isolated environments and service applications...
Azure File Share Remote Connection Checklist
Today I had a situation where I wanted to connect my Azure file share to my Windows PC. This is a very important step in putting a practical use case around the Azure file share from outside of the Azure cloud. I had a few questions and required steps to get there, so I decided to share them with some consideration so you can easily do this when the time comes for you.
How to Convert Windows SSL certificate PFX Format to PEM Format #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR @Digicert
Today, I am going to show you how to convert Windows SSL certificate PFX format to PEM format via free DigiCert GUI too
MFA for Azure Portal, You’ve Done That Right?
From the last two posts I made related to the Azure Key Vault (one on encrypting with your own key and the other on how to generate a key), I’ll admit I’m getting started with security in Azure.
Generating Keys in Azure Key Vault
In my last post, I indicated how easy it was to tell a storage account (particularly the Azure Shell storage account) to use an encryption key. In that example, I brought my own key. That key was an 2048-bit RSA key that Azure Key Vault was happy to use and apply to my storage account. The figure below shows my 2048-bit key:
Using Azure Shell and want to encrypt with your own key? It’s easy.
I recently had a situation where I started using Azure Shell. The way I look at Azure, and really any cloud service, security should be the first part of the process.
Clear Display Cache using Registry Hack
Hey checkyourlogs.net fans! I'm a prolific Surface guy, having used them daily from the release of the original, much maligned Surface RT to my current daily driver, the Surface Book 2. I love these devices, but occasionally, particularly after firmware updates, they...
INSTALL Veeam BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 4b #Azure #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR
Veeam released the Backup & Replication 9.5 service pack 4b yesterday, Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4b is a cumulative hotfix rollup that addresses issues reported by customers on the original build of Update 4 and Update 4a, as well as add some new feature and platform support enhancements –
Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903, Microsoft Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Microsoft Windows Server version 1903, Linux Kernel version 5.0, Ubuntu 19.04, SLES 15 SP1, RHEL 8, CentOS 8 and openSUSE Leap 15.1, VMware vCloud Director 9.7, VMware vSphere 6.5 U3 readiness, VMware vSphere 6.7 U3 readiness.
In addition, Update 4b addresses over 100 minor bugs reported by customers and found during the internal testing.
The Case of the Missing Control Panel Mail Settings App
Hey checkyourlogs.net fans! I stumbled across an issue yesterday where the Mail settings app in Control Panel on my Windows 10 1903 PC wouldn't open. In expected style, it provided a very non-helpful error "Application not found." What do you mean, not found? This is...
Troubleshooting Storage Spaces Direct Failover Manager with Get-ClusterLog – #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I just wanted to share with you a super easy way to get detailed information about what is happening inside of your Storage Spaces Direct Clusters. We are facing an issue with one of our clusters where the "Network is Partitioned" for...
Filter Out Local AD Users to Not Sync with Azure AD
Hey checkyourlogs.net fans, today's post covers a common "ask" from those synchronizing on-premises Active Directory with Azure AD: how to prevent certain local objects, specifically users, from synchronizing to Azure AD. Use AD Connect's filtering capabilities,...
The Case of unable to connect to Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Admin Center because of WinRM errors – #StorageSpacesDirect #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, we were working on a Storage Spaces Direct cluster that is managed by Windows Admin Center. We love using Windows Admin Center because it gives our administrators an HTML 5 interface with rich reporting and performance history. When we...
The Case of low Disk Space on Windows Server R2 File Servers – Enable Dedup – #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, we have a quick post just reminding you that if you have Windows Server 2012 R2 File Servers are not able to migrate them to Server 2019 yet. You can still fix issues like lack of disk space with good old deduplication. Deduplication has...
The Case of Troubleshooting and poor VM Performance via Windows Admin Center – #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I wanted to write a very quick post showing how you can use Windows Admin Center to quickly diagnose issues with poorly performing Virtual Machines on a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster. We had a call come in from a customer today that...
Converting Virtual Machines with Pass Through disks using Veeam Agent for Windows – #Veeam @Veeam
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today, I want to showcase a hidden little gem with Veeam Agent for Windows. Let us have a look at our problem. This VM is a SQL Server, and in the original design, the team decided to build out on their ISCSI SAN using Pass-Through Disks. These...
Veeam Agent for Windows Error – Failed to load backup meta from file #Veeam @Veeam
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, today I encountered a very weird error when attempting to take an incremental backup of a SQL Server using the Veeam Agent for Windows. When running the job, it would immediately fail with an error message that said: "Failed to load backup meta...
Force Stop Veeam Backup Job When it stuck at Stopping Status #Veeam #Backup #
Today, I tried to stop a running backup job session, but its status stuck at stopping for 1 hour, there are some jobs are running, I don’t want to impact them, so I decided to force stop the backup job.
Checking out Azure Security Center and Security Center (ATP) – #MVPHour #Azure #Security
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I'm coming off a wonderful day presenting at the local Azure Bootcamp in Calgary and I wanted to show you some of the cool things you need for your Servers. There hasn't ever been a better reason to upgrade to Windows Server 2019 until now. The...
Hyper-V to Stop Malware: Application Guard
For the fourth post in this series, we're going to look at what's probably my favourite new feature of Client Hyper-V: Windows Defender Application Guard. This is really cool, as it allows you to isolate the biggest threat to your machine…Surfing the web. Either...
VEEAM TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – Error Unable to detect database action to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4a #VEEAM #MVPHOUR #WINDOWSSERVER
As we know, Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 Update 4a supports lots of new features, I showed you how to step by step to install it at my previously Blog.
Today, I tried to upgrade Veeam Backup and Replication from 9.5 update 3a to 4a, and it showed Unable to detect database action error message, it has never happened this error before, I got a solution to solve this issue after contact with Veeam support engineer, let’s follow steps to solve this issue.
Hyper-V for your passwords: Credential Guard
The third post in this series will start to look at how Hyper-V can be used to secure your Windows box. One of the things attackers will be on the hunt for is the stored username and password combination on your machine. These credentials get cached when you log on,...
Integrating Windows Azure Hybrid Services with Windows Admin Center 1904GA – #MVPHour
Hey there Checkyourlogs Fans, Today we are going to look at the latest release of Windows Admin Center version 1904. This is not the insiders build, but the latest GA build that Microsoft has delivered and it has some cool new enhancements. Like the new Azure hybrid...
How to Remove Users License from Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3.0 #Veeam #MVPHOUR #Office365
You have to very carefully about users License issues before run Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 backup job, because once a license has been given over to a user/site/item, it will aspirate (fall off) 31 days after the last backup. so, you will got the warning message even you removed the user from the backup job settings.
Fortunately, you don’t need to remove backup job or backup repository now because Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3.0 added the feature to remove licensed users, but you must remove those unwanted licensed users from backup repository’s database and then remove the license.
Moving a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster to a new Location – #StorageSpacesDirect
Good Morning Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I had a customer call me and let me know that they would like to move a Storage Spaces Direct Cluster into a new rack in the Data Center. They have a full maintenance outage window so we are just going to move the whole thing...
How to Configure Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 #Veeam #MVPHOUR #Office365
Veeam released Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 on April 2, there are lots of function be increased and improved, including increased backup speeds, improved security with multi-factor authentication support, simplified management for larger environments, flexible retention options… etc.
The most import is Veeam release Community Edition version, what is Community Edition? It provides FREE backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, eliminating the risk of losing access and control over your Office 365 data – limited to 10 users and 1 TB of SharePoint data. What are you waiting for? Let’s follow steps to configure it for protecting your Microsoft office 365 data.
Hyper-V in Windows 10: Quick Create VMs from Template
In the previous post, I showed you how to get Hyper-V running on your Windows 10 computer. Next, we will create our first VM and then use it to quickly create additional VMs in the future. Before continuing, make sure you have an ISO of Windows 10, or if you have an...
How to Install Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 #Veeam #MVPHOUR #Office365
Veeam released Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 on April 2, there are lots of function be increased and improved, including increased backup speeds, improved security with multi-factor authentication support, simplified management for larger environments, flexible retention options… etc.
The most import is Veeam release Community Edition version, what is Community Edition? It provides FREE backup and recovery of Office 365 Exchange Online, SharePoint Online and OneDrive for Business, eliminating the risk of losing access and control over your Office 365 data – limited to 10 users and 1 TB of SharePoint data. What are you waiting for? Let’s follow steps to install it for protecting your Microsoft office 365 data.
Critical Firmware Update Required for Intel Solid Sate DC S4510 and S4610 Drives – #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I just wanted to make you aware of a critical Firmware Update that is require for your Intel DC S4510 and S4610 Drives. In the fine print of the release notes you will see a critical note: Resolved 1.92TB and 3.84TB SKUs may become unresponsive...
Fixed unreadable symbols in Notification email of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 #Veeam #MVPHOUR #Office365
I was trying to configure and test Notification email of Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 function, I received a test notification email consist of unreadable symbols.
Deployment Options for Windows 10 in SCCM
With the release of Windows 10 came a new deployment option that Microsoft calls an "In-Place Upgrade." But wasn't that always a method, like when we went from Windows XP to Windows 7? Kinda sorta, but not really. Traditionally, we often used MDT-integrated ConfigMgr...
How to Activate Windows Server 2019 Evaluation Edition with VLSC MAK key or Retail key #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR
When you try to activate Windows server 2019 from evaluation version, do you always get an error message “the product key you entered didn’t work. Check the product key and try again, or enter a different one. (0x80070490)”? Today, I am going to show you how to install license key to activate Windows Server 2019 from Evaluation version. Let’s follow steps to activate your windows server 2019 (it also can be use for activating Windows Server 2016).
Note: you cannot use slmgr /ipk command with VLSC MAK key or Retail to activate evaluation edition server directly.
Configuring Windows Analytics: Part 2 Creating the Azure Log Analytics Workspace
Introduction When configuring the workspace, it is usually a best practice to create a unique workspace using a free subscription to house the Windows Analytics solutions and data. Using an existing workspace is possible but it may muddy the waters between functional...
Configuring Windows Analytics: Part 1 Prerequisites
Introduction Welcome, since I've been working with a number of clients using Windows Analytics I thought I would share some tips on getting up and running plus make sense of all the ways it can be configured. This blog series reviews the strategy and steps I have used...
The Case of the Failed Storage (East/West) Switch fabric with #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, I wanted to write to you today chatting about what happens if you lose your East/West (Storage) Switch Fabric with Storage Spaces Direct. In my design for this customer, they had a Dedicated pair of Mellanox switches for their Storage Network...
The Case of Troubleshooting a failed Windows 10 Pro In-Place-Upgrade like the Pro’s – #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, With the looming deadline of January 2020 coming up very very fast I know many of you are racing to get your Windows 10 upgrade projects done. With that said I wanted to share an extremely handly little tool that Microsoft has built to help...
Checking out Windows Admin Center 1903 – DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory Previews #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Tonight, I wanted to checkout some of the brand new previews that are now available inside of Windows Admin Center Insiders Build 1903. I have been waiting for a long time for the ability to manage DHCP, DNS, and Active Directory so let's see...
INSTALL VEEAM BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 4a #Azure #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR
Veeam released the Backup & Replication 9.5 service pack 4a today, Veeam Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4a is a cumulative hotfix rollup that addresses issues reported by customers on the original build of Update 4, as well as minor platform support enhancements –
VMware vSphere 6.7 U2 readiness, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2019, Dell EMC Data Domain DD OS 6.2. In addition, Update 4a addresses over 300 minor bugs reported by customers and found during the internal testing.
The details information you can check from Veeam website https://www.veeam.com/kb2926
The Installation steps are straightforward, but you need to confirm that you are running version 9.5.4.2615 prior to installing this update. You can check this under Help | About in Veeam Backup & Replication console. After upgrade, your build number will be 9.5.4.2753.
The Case of the Partitioned Network in Failover Cluster Manager when Updating Windows Server 2016 #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Tonight @SifuSun (Cary Sun) and I were doing some routine maintenance of a 2-node Storage Spaces Direct Cluster that was having issues with checkpoints locking up during Veeam Backups. We went through the normal process putting the nodes into...
HOW to FIX Access Denied Error in Demote DC server #Active Directory #WINDOWSSERVER # #MVPHOUR
Today, I was trying to remove an old windows 2003 R2 DC server in our domain, when I run DCPROMO command to demote it, I received the following error message:
The operation failed because: The attempt at remote domain controller DC2016 to remove domain controller CN=DC1,CN=Servers,CN=Default-First-Name,CN=Sites….from the forest was unsuccessful. “Access is Denied”
Performance Tuning Deduplication on Windows Server 2019 ReFS and #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In the previous post, we talked about the essential operator's report for Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2019. Today, I want to talk to you about the performance penalty that is required to run Deduplication on Windows Server 2019....
Essential Operators Report for #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I know we love Windows Admin Center for pretty much all things Storage Spaces Direct. However, at this time there are a few things that are missing for our wonderful HTML5 UI. The most important thing for Storage Spaces Direct admins is...
Don’t forget to configure your Power Management Settings for #StorageSpacesDirect via Windows Admin Center
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Just a quick post here and a reminder to always configure your Power Management Settings for your Storage Spaces Direct nodes in both the BIOS and in Windows. Windows Admin Center has a hidden little gem that allows you to do this. It won't...
Activating DataON MUST via Windows Admin Center for #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I'm going to show you how to use the DataON MUST extension for Windows Admin Center. The only step that I have already completed is to register the DataON MUST extension by clicking on Settings, Extensions, and Installing it. As you can...
Automated SDDC Diagnostics via Windows Admin Center for #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today, I'm going to show you a little golden nugget that came with Windows Admin Center 1812+. I'm currently using version 1902, and it has added functionality to run diagnostic reports on Storage Spaces Direct automatically. Inside of Windows...
The Case of Inventory Gathering using Microsoft MAP #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I wanted to write to you today because sometimes the good old tools are just what the doctor ordered. I have used the Microsoft Assessment and Planning Toolkit before, but I haven't tried it out in a few years. I have to say that the latest...
The Case of Excluding Microsoft Teams from #Office365 Installer #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Just a quick post for you today. I was asked by a client this week to prevent the installation of Microsoft Teams from the Office 365 Click to Run Installer package. This customer exclusively uses Skype for Business and isn't ready for Teams...
The Case of the Missing Deduplication Scheduled Tasks in Windows Server 2019 #StorageSpacesDirect #HyperV #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Recently I have been deploying a lot of Storage Spaces Direct Configurations on Windows Server 2019. As many of you know, one of my favourite features of Windows Server 2019 is ReFS + Deduplication. Now, normally I will just go to the Task...
Migrating VM’s with Passthrough and ISCSI disks to #StorageSpacesDirect using #Veeam Agent for Windows #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I wanted to talk about moving non-standard workloads to your new Storage Spaces Direct Clusters. We recently ran into a real issue with some older Hyper-V Hosts that had been built using ISCSI from a Dell/EMC VNX SAN. The setup included a...
Ping Sweep Using PowerShell – Turning Into A Function – #PowerShell #MVPHour #PingSweep
Hey there checkyourlogs.net fans! In my last post, I described a quick bit of PowerShell code for pinging an IP range. Paste this code into VSCode or the ISE, run, and watch the results. Quick and dirty. Once I had this working, I wanted more. For instance, I want to...
How to use Veeam to archive on-premises data to Azure Blob #Veeam #Azure #Azure Blob #MVPHOUR
Veeam released the Backup & Replication 9.5 Update 4 on January, also with this release, Veeam now also have support for Cloud based Object Storage, such as Azure Blob Storage which means that we can have the last 30 days of data stored on a local repository and then move the archive or later up to a Azure Blob but Azure Blob is capacity tier storage, you cannot use it as local backup repository and backup data to it directly. Let’s follow steps to configure it.
Ping Sweep Using PowerShell -Quick and Dirty – #PowerShell #MVPHour
Hey there checkyourlogs.net fans! Today I needed to ping sweep an entire subnet from a Windows Server 2012 box. Simple, right? There are plenty of free and paid tools out there ready to perform this task. My dilemma was, and is, I don't want to install additional...
The Case of MMC.exe being blocked on Server 2019 – #WindowServer #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I had a customer call me this weekend with a weird issue. They would logon to a Hyper-V Server and would get the following error message stating the mmc.exe was blocked and basically anything that required this: Services.msc, devmgmt.msc,...
Microsoft’s Mixed Messages Could Derail Windows Servicing Best Practices #Windows10 #WaaS
Background During the tepid Summer of 2018, Microsoft announced that it would be extending Windows 10 support for Education and Enterprise customers from 18 months to 30 months. In conjunction with that extension, they also announced that Windows 7 would receive...
BUG Reports – Windows Server 2019 Storage Spaces Direct Field Notes – January 2019 Edition – Not what we expected #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I am writing to you here tonight after having some not so fun nights dealing with persisting issues with Windows Server 2019 and Storage Spaces Direct this month. Let me preface this with the fact that we are early adopters and all of my...
MVPDays Online January 2019 – Live Stream #Azure #MVPHour #Office365 #DevOps #MVPBuzz
Hey MVPDays Fans, MVPDays January was another smashing success. This marked the 2nd time we have used Youtube with as our platform which included live Chat for Q/A with attendees and our experts. You can view it live and on demand here: Direct link is here:...
STEP BY STEP INSTALL VEEAM ONE 9.5 UPDATE 4 #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP BY STEP
As you know, Veeam released the service pack 4 on January 2019, it’s not fix bugs only, it also includes a lot of new features –
Support for Microsoft Windows Server 2019,
Application-level monitoring,
Dedicated view for job and disk-based alarms, Veeam Agents support, Enhanced Cloud Gateway view, Enhanced “Cloud Connect Inventory” report, Microsoft Hyper-V 2019 Support…
The details information you can check from Veeam website https://www.veeam.com/veeam_one_9_5_whats_new_wn.pdf and https://www.veeam.com/veeam_one_9_5_u4_release_notes_rn.pdf.
The steps are straightforward, but you still need to be careful about one thing, the first one is “If you use Veeam ONE to monitor Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Cloud Connect, be sure to install Update 4 for Veeam ONE 9.5 first” and the second is “If you are a tenant of a cloud provider, please contact your provider before upgrading to ensure the provider has applied Update 4 on their end”.
The Case of: Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Checkpoint stuck at 9% after Veeam 9.5 UR 4 Upgrade – #Veeam #Hyper-V
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I had an interesting case where a customer called in to let us know that Checkpoints were stuck on their Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Host. Everything had been working great on this host since it was upgraded from Windows Server 2016 back...
INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 4 #Azure #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR
Veeam released the service pack 4 on January, it includes to fix some support issues and it also support some current platforms – Microsoft Windows Server 2019, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 2019, Microsoft Active Directory 2019, Exchange 2019 and SharePoint 2019, Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update, Oracle Database 18c, VMware vSphere 6.7 U1 ESXi, vCenter Server and vCenter Server Appliance (VCSA) , VMware vCloud Director 9.5 …. and Expanded restore options to AWS and Azure Stack with Veeam Cloud Mobility, Native Object Storage Support with Veeam Cloud Tier, Improved Security and Compliance with Veeam DataLabs.
BUG Alert – Windows Server 2019 Hyper-V Triple Fault Bug Workaround – #Hyper-v #StorageSpacesDirect #Veeam
Hey Checkyourlogsfans, We have been experiencing an issue in the field for a while now with Server 2019 where when a VM that is migrated to 2019 it fails with a Triple Fault: Critical 03/01/2019 16:13:49 Hyper-V-Worker 18560 None 'Test VM 1' was reset because an...
BUG Alert – SDDC Management Resource (Windows Admin Center) is Impacting Storage Spaces Direct Virtual Machines on Server 2019 – #StorageSpacesDirect #S2D #WindowsAdminCenter
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, I had the pleasure over the past few weeks to work with a customer that had recently deployed Windows Server 2019 and Storage Spaces Direct. With any early deployment, we expect to hit some bumps in the road, and we found a good one this week....
Join us for the first ever MVPDays Microsoft Flow Conference – #MSFLowConf #MicrosoftFlow #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, I'm writing to you with some exciting news. We have over 5000 people registered all ready for our Microsoft Flow online event tomorrow. It is at capacity, and we have even gone beyond what Goto Webinar can even handle. Good news for you...
Script for port range forwarding in Azure #Azure #NAT #Microsoft #MVPhours
Today I will be talking about a script which Angus @FrostedFright has made for port range forwarding. If you don’t already know about setting up NAT and port forwarding via Routing and Remote Access tool then you should check out my previously blog that is called, “How to build Hyper-V nested VMs with multiple IP addresses Port Forwarding at Azure” and you can come back to this blog so you can understand this subject clearer than if you didn’t check out my previously blog. You should think that it is now easy to make multiple port forwarding, but it is a lot harder to use port range forwarding instead. Let’s get started with this tutorial!
How to Create Azure account with $250 credit for free #Azure #MVPHOUR #Cloud #FREE
As we know, there are lots of features on Microsoft Azure cloud, in order to use those features, you need to create a Microsoft Azure account, it’s very easy to create, also you will get $200 credits at the first month.
If you are a newcomer on Microsoft Azure, no worry, I am going to show you how to create Azure free account with $200 credits today, just follow the steps as below.
Free to build Sophos XG firewall at Azure Hyper-V Nested VM #Azure #MVPBUZZ #MVPHOUR #FIREWALL #SOPHOS
Have you been followed my previously blog to build up Hyper-V nested virtual machine on Microsoft Azure? If you don’t, you better build it right now, because this is pre-requisites and you will get lots of benefit for your lab or even production environment, you can reference this link and build it. If you did, congratulation! You can create a nested gest virtual machine and install Firewall (e.g. Sophos XG, Fortinet…) for free, why we still need to build firewall at our Azure Hyper-V nested environment? Because it supports lots functions that we cannot get the functions for free from Azure, e.g. server load balance, firewall, SNAT, application filter, IPS…and so on, we also can use it for LAB or simulate issues or POC. I am going to show how to build Sophos XG here.
How to build Hyper-V nested VMs with multiple IP addresses Port Forwarding at Azure #Azure #MVPBUZZ #MVPHOUR #FIREWALL
Today, I am going to show you how to build Hyper-V nested VM with multiple public IP address, you just need to pay Microsoft for one Hyper-V host with storage space and public IP addresses, you can install firewall, created lots of VMs, load balancer, control routing path, port forwarding and so on, we can use them for LAB test, POC, or even production.
The Case of Upgrading a Veeam Backup Repository from Windows Server 2016 to 2019 and Enabling Deduplication on ReFS – #ReFS #DeDuplication #WindowsServer2019
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I was working with a customer today, and we are finally ready to upgrade our primary Veeam Backup Repository that is running Microsoft Storage Spaces on Windows Server 2016. The new Operating System will be Windows Server 2019 LTSC, and the...
That case of updating to the latest .WIM for a thin Windows 10 Image using MDT – #deployment #MDT #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I was on a call with a customer today that we've been supporting for a long time. We help them with their Windows Deployment / Imaging solution, and along these lines, we have setup an extremely thin imaging process. What we wanted was when the...
The Case of not being able to Migrate between Hyper-V Clusters using SCVMM – #HyperV #SCVMM
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I was working a case with a customer of mine that had built out a new Hyper-V Cluster using SCVMM. We had the new cluster built with SCVMM and were at a point that we wanted to use Shared Nothing Live Migration between the two clusters to...
Is Hardware Giant #SuperMicro in trouble over recent hacks to their hardware via the supply chain? – #HackingNews #HyperConvergence #HCI
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, As many of you know, I have been an advocate of the HyperConverged solutions on the market for quite some time. During my adventures in this space, I have done a lot of work with Vendors that OEM SuperMicro hardware for their solutions. It...
The Case of figuring out Performance Counters to monitor Storage Spaces Direct – #StorageSpacesDirect #SCOM
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Tonight I had a call with a customer that was looking for specific counters to monitor for Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016. I had stumbled across a document a while back that came with the SCOM Management Pack download for Storage...
Finding the Windows 10 1809 Media and Upgrading – #Windows10 #Windows1809
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I was asked by a customer to find the Windows 10 1809 media, and it took me a while, but I did find the link for you. If you go here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10 you can grab your copy today. You can...
The Case of Locking down the Hyper-V Host Virtual Adapter in the Management OS with an Access List – #Hyper-V #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Just a quick post tonight from a case that I was working on today for a customer. They had a special requirement to lock down their Hyper-V (Storage Spaces Direct) hosts on secure networks. These networks are going to have 2 x Node Storage...
#MSIgnite THR1070 – Go from Zero to Hero using Azure Site Recovery: Surviving a Ransomware Attack – Session Recording now live #Azure #AzureSiteRecovery #Ransomware
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, This past week I had the distinct pleasure of presenting an amazing session with Emile Cabot on Azure Site Recovery. This session was a continuation of the Zero to Hero series we had been presenting over the past few years. This time instead of...
Let’s Take a Look at the MSIX Roadmap #MSIX #MVPHour #Win10
Introduction There are so many announcements to keep up with at Ignite, I’ve been trying to stay within my wheelhouse, which has largely been all things App-V. With over 20 years of experience in application packaging, I instinctively track new technologies such as...
Introducing the Intune PowerShell SDK #Intune #PowerShell #MVPHour
Ignite is turning out to be boiling over with new technologies and ideas, and you can really feel the momentum building behind Intune. For those of you that are struggling to customize Intune to suit your organization’s requirements, there is a collection of...
Security Baselines, Intune and MDM. Oh My! #Intune #GroupPolicy #MDM #MVPHour
Security should always be at the forefront of our thinking these days and I can tell you that I’m up to my elbows in it on a regular basis. Today, it was announced that Microsoft has finally developed a security baseline for Intune that should help many us of dealing...
Intune Builds a Bridge #SCCM #Intune #Win32 #MSIX #MVPHour
Microsoft Ignite 2018, has kicked off and without wasting any time, Brad Anderson made a huge announcement for Intune that finally answers the problem of deploying Win32 applications via the cloud. In its 25th year, the mega-conference brings together the best and...
The Case of Configuring Forced Tunneling in Azure to route Virtual Machine traffic back through an on Prem Firewall – #Azure #AzureSiteRecovery
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I was working with a customer that has a requirement of keeping internet traffic flowing back through their head office after we migrate VM's to Azure using Azure Site Recovery. The reason for this is that they have purchased a security...
#PowerShell – Reporting on Certificate Templates via #ADSI
All certificate template information is stored in Active Directory. As it’s shared configuration through a forest, it’s stored in the AD Configuration partition. I needed to report which certificate templates and their associated OIDs. Let’s do it with simple code and no external modules.
iWarp the Movie featuring #Intel and #Microsoft #RDMA – #StorageSpacesDirect #WindowsServer #SMBDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Here is a quick little post on iWarp as a protocol that can be used to run RDMA for your Storage Spaces Direct deployments. The best part about iWarp is that it doesn't require Switch or Server configuration it is pretty much plug and play. To...
Hidden Updates to ReFS.sys Version 2457 in Microsoft KB434884 – #ReFS #Veeam #HyperV #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, I was recently reading an update from a friend of mine at Veeam - MVP Anton Gostev in his Monthly Veeam Forums digest. In the September 3rd -9th 2019 Digest Email he stated that Veeam has been doing some extensive testing of Hotfix KB434884....
Getting Started with the Azure Site Recovery Deployment Planner Tool for #HyperV – #AzureSiteRecovery
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I want to have a look at some planning tools that Microsoft provides to help you get started with Microsoft's Azure Site Recovery. As always with any project planning is an essential part of the equation. Before this tool, all of our...
Protecting your Virtual Machines with Azure Site Recovery from Windows Admin Center – #WindowsAdminCenter #AzureSiteRecovery
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In this post, we are going to look at the steps required to protect your infrastructure using Azure Site Recovery integrated into Windows Admin Center. First, let's have a look at our Windows Admin Center and our source Hyper-V Server. The...
The Case cleaning Azure Site Recovery and Hyper-V Replica on an older Hyper-V Server – #WindowsAdminCenter #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, In this post, we are going to look at my setup of some lab machines with Azure Site Recovery using only Windows Admin Center 1808. Now, the issue I ran into was with the Hyper-V Server I was trying to use in my lab. This was an older Hyper-V...
The Case of the broken network on an Upgrade of Windows Server 2012 R2 to Windows Server 2019 – #HyperV #WindowsadminCenter
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today, we are going to have a look at the process of in-place upgrading a Windows 2012 R2 Hyper-V Host Server running production workloads to Windows Server 2019 Insiders Build 17744. We are also going setup Windows Admin Center to manage this...
SCCM – Next Maintenance Window
Figuring out when the next maintenance should be trivial. The Administrators can usually track it down, but sometimes it’s great to empower the users. Teach them to fish and give yourself some time back!
The Case of the Physical Disk “Lost Communication” – #StorageSpacesDirect #HCI
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I was working with a friend that is running a Seven Node Storage Spaces Direct cluster on Lenovo Hardware. Everything has been running great over the past six months until a few of his drives had started to report a "Lost Communication"...
Session Catalog is live for Microsoft Ignite – .@MS_Ignite #MVPHour #TeamKawula
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Team Kawula will be in full force at Microsoft Ignite coming up in a little over one month from now in Sunny Orlando, FL. This is Microsoft biggest conference of the year, and we are so thrilled to be a big part of it. Make sure you checkout...
Eliminate Compliance Fatigue with SupTool #SCCM #Azure #MVPHour
For many of my clients, the work of ensuring the health and compliance of the devices in their organization represents a significant portion of their daily IT task load. The sneaky problem with repetitive, low priority tasks is that they're usually improperly executed...
The Case of Veeam Replica Job failing – Target Account Name Incorrect – #Veeam #StorageSpacesDirect #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I was working on a case today with a customer that has recently upgraded to Storage Spaces Direct and their replica jobs were failing with "Failed to process replication task Error: The target account name is incorrect. Agent failed to process...
The Case of Veeam Backups Failing on Hyper-V Error 32775 – #Veeam #StorageSpacesDirect #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I wanted to talk about a case that I am currently working on for a customer running Veeam Backup and Replication V9.5 UR 3. Veeam is protecting our Storage Spaces Direct Hyper-V Hyper-Converged infrastructure running on Server 2016. We...
Speeding up Veeam Backups from a Hyper-V Cluster #Veeam #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I have been recently troubleshooting some slow backups from a new Storage Spaces Direct Cluster at a customer site. Have a look at the backup speeds from the backups before I started. I was moving around a lot of data to the cluster and one...
Veeam Backup Satellite Process causing Jobs to Fail #Veeam #StorageSpacesDirect #HyperV
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, I have been recently having some challenges with an existing customer installation of Veeam Backup and Replication 9.5 UR3. Things have been working great and all of a sudden the console seemed super slow and was timing out. I couldn't even...
Workaround Storage Spaces Direct fix for 5120 errors – #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I know a lot of you have been reaching out to me asking about why they are getting the 5120 errors with a Status Code of STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT or STATUS_CONNECTION_DISCONNECTED when a node is rebooted. It appears that in the May Cumulative update...
Migrating your Windows Roles without Downtime – #TechMentor #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, This week at the TechMentor 2018 Redmond conference we had some great discussions around Migrating your Windows Roles for example from 2003 to 2012 R2 and beyond. I had mentioned that we have a documents that we have used successfully at many...
How to Use an MSI Wrapper to Install Citrix Receiver Client With a Twist
Summary This post will shed some light on how you can reliably install the Citrix Receiver client across your desktop environment with our old friend, the MSI wrapper. One of the projects I’m working on needed a solution to install Citrix Receiver into their desktop...
The Case of – Failed to unregister the virtual machine with the virtual machine management service Event ID 21502 #Veeam #Restore #S2D #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In today's post, I wanted to discuss I case that I had this week with a customer that had a couple of VM's that were stuck in a Pending state in Failover Cluster Manager. They are running Windows Server 2016 with the April Cumulative Update....
Installing the Storage Migration Service using Windows Admin Center #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In today's post, we are going to look at installing the Storage Migration Service using only Windows Admin Center. To get started with Windows Admin Center you can have a look at my previous post here: http://www.checkyourlogs.net/?p=53693 The...
Installing Windows Admin Center on Windows Server 2019 LTSC #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In today's post, we are going to look at installing Windows Admin Center into my brand new Windows Server 2019 LTSC lab. I have done this a few times and I wanted to show how it can be literally setup in less than a few minutes. To start let's...
Enable Deduplication on Windows Server 2019 on #ReFS
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In today's post, we will look at the steps required to enable deduplication in Windows Server 2019 on a ReFS volume. What I have done to get started is installed a Virtual Machine running Windows Server 2019 Insiders Build. Next, we need to...
INSTALL BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3a #Azure #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR
eeam released the service pack 3a on July, it includes to fix some support issues and it also add to support some current platforms – Microsoft Windows Server 1803, Microsoft Windows Server Hyper-V 1803, Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 1801, Microsoft Windows 10 April 2018 Update, VMware vSphere 6.7, VMware vCloud Director 9.1…. and added support for Direct Restore to Microsoft Azure for environments with ExpressRoute or site-to-site VPN connectivity to Azure.
How to fix Failed to create change tracking time stamp for virtual disk file #VEEAM #MVPHOUR #WINDOWSSERVER #PowerShell
I think I can try to clone the old backup jobs and recreate a new backup job and it should fix the issues, unfortunately, the issues still happened. After did some research, we can use Veeam PowerShell cmdlet to clears and resets change tracking data for a VM or specific virtual disk (VHD),
Windows 10 Servicing Plans – Running out of Space – Filtering Updates – Too many Languages #SCCM #ServcingPlans
A slightly odd ball title, but I wanted to cover off a few scenarios that seem to have plagued a few people in the past. Hopefully this article will help a few people. I was called into a client site as their distribution points and WSUS drives were constantly filling...
Internal Client IP Address in the 411 Security Event Channel or in Azure AD Connect Health Service – #ADFS #WAP #Loadbalancer #AzureAD
ADFS is almost always configured with a part of it in the public facing DMZ and the server role in the corporate environment. If you're using pure Microsoft technology for everything, it should just work, and your 411 events should show you the external IP. I've seen...
HOW TO BUILD SITE-TO-SITE VPN FROM AZURE TO SOPHOS XG FIREWALL #AZURE #MVPBUZZ #MVPHour #SOPHOS #VPN
Today, I would like to tell you how to build a site-to-site VPN from Sophos XG firewall to Azure, if you have no budget to buy a hardware base firewall for you home office or lab, no worry, you also can download and install at Microsoft Hyper-V (or others) Virtual Machine and it’s free!!
Promo Code for TechMentor Redmond – 500 bucks off EarlyBird- #TechMentor #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I'll be speaking at TechMentor, August 6-10 at Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Surrounded by your fellow IT professionals, TechMentor provides you with in-depth, immediately usable training that will keep you relevant in the workforce. I'll be...
Deploying Storage Spaces Direct Part 46 – Nuke-ClusterandS2D Factory Reset Script #PowerShell #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Recently I have been working on a Storage Spaces Direct project with an amazing scripter and Dev/OPS admin named Sammy Shuck. He has taken the liberty to clean up the code in the Clear-SDSConfig.PS1. As many of you know I love to use this...
ADFS and AzureAD Account Lockouts – Part 1
In the first part of this blog series, we’ll look at this hot topic. Read about some updated information on how to help fix this for your organization.
Azure Active Directory – Problem Updating UserPrincipalName (FederatedUser.UserPrincipalName], is not valid)
Ever need to change an Azure tenants user’s UPN from one of your verified to another? This needs to be done for a few reasons, but usually this is done to migrate people between departments / sub companies in cases where their email has changed. Unfortunately, ADConnect tries to do this, but fails. How do we fix this? #PowerShell!
Hyper-V in Windows 10: Initial Set-Up
Since the early days of Microsoft Virtual PC, there has been significant changes to the performance of Hyper-V, and the things we can do with it. Although the main function of Hyper-V is that of a hypervisor for virtualized server platforms, including it as part of...
Microsoft Unveils MSIX to Streamline and Modernize Application Packaging
Microsoft made a massive announcement at the Windows Developer Day keynote regarding the future of application packaging and installation for Windows 10. Microsoft has a deep history with Windows application installers, and the announcement revealed that they have...
HOW TO REDIRECT AZURE WEBSITE NAME TO YOUR OWN DOMAIN NAME #AZURE #WEBSITE #MVPHOUR #STEP BY STEP
Hello everyone, how’s the weekend going? Have you tried to build your personal website at Azure? As my previously blog said, today I am going to show you how to redirect the Azure website name to your own domain name.
How to build up personal website hosting at Azure for free #Website #WordPress #Azure #Microsoft #MVPHOUR
Today, I am going to show you how to build up your personal website hosting at Azure for free. Yes, you are right, I am saying it’s free (but custom domain is another matter).
Of course, you need to create your Azure account before creating your personal website hosting, you can follow the link to start your Azure account for free.
Top Level Configuration Manager Collections
Having been through quite a few CM migrations over the past few years, one of the things that I have seen heavily used in previous versions is nested collections, which had a similar functionality in SCCM as nested groups in Active Directory. However, this option has...
VEEAM TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS – ERROR CODE 32768 FAILED TO CREATE VM RECOVERY SNAPSHOT #VEEAM #MVPHOUR #WINDOWSSERVER
We built a new Windows Server 2016 S2D Cluster last week and moved all VMs from Windows 2012 R2 Cluster to new Windows 2016 S2D Cluster and Standalone Windows 2016 Hyper-V Server, everything looks awesome, they got better performance.
But when we tried to use Veeam backup and replication 9.5 with Update 3 to Back and replica VMs, all VMs are happy except two Windows Server 2012 R2 Active Directory Servers, they showed error message “Failed to create VM recovery checkpoint (mode: Veeam application-aware processing) Details: Job failed (”). Error code: ‘32768’. Failed to create VM recovery snapshot, VM ID ‘d2936ee7-3444-419e-82d9-01d45e5370f8’.Retrying snapshot creation attempt (Failed to create production checkpoint.)Task has been rescheduled”.
WINDOWS SERVER 2019 NOW AVAILABLE IN PREVIEW TODAY #MVPHOUR #WINDOWSSERVER #MICROSOFT #AZURE
What a wonderful day today! Windows server 2019 available in preview now.
As we know the Windows Server 2016 is fastest adopted version of Windows Server, it has lot of features like as Hyper-converged infrastructure, Storage Spaces Direct…etc., Windows Server 2019 is building in the strong foundation of Windows Server 2016.
MVPDays V-Conf March Sessions – #MVPBuzz #MVPhour #Azure
Hey MVPDays Fans, Well we just wrapped up another fantastic MVPDays Virtual Conference a few hours ago. Our Post-Production Team (ME) has tirelessly worked to get this content up for you the community. The highlight of the show this month for me was the keen work of...
Press Release – MVPDays + The Krewe Community Partnership @TheKrewe @MVPDays
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, ***For Immediate Release *** This week at the annual Microsoft MVP Summit two great communities have come together in a partnership to share more great knowledge. "We are extremely excited to partner with The Krewe and their user community. The...
Congratulations to Cary Sun our 6th MVP on CheckyourLogs #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, I just wanted to reach out today and say congratulations to resident blogger Cary Sun. He has been blogging here at Checkyorlogs with some amazing content for the past 18 months and just yesterday was awarded the distinguished Microsoft MVP...
Off to #MVPSummit in Redmond, WA #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Next week marks my 7th trip to Redmond for our annual MVP Summit. This is the largest gathering of Microsoft Technical Community experts in the world. We get to have some fun, meet with the Product Teams, and learn all about the future from...
#ADFS and Azure AD Authentication with a #Netscaler 11.1 acting as a Proxy
This is quite a rare scenario, but they do exist more than often in IT! After hitting one of Microsoft’s Azure/Office 365 landing pages that sends you to your ADFS login screen via Netscaler, you encounter a HTTP 400 error message after a successful authentication. Simple reason for this, there is a bug in the Netscaler software. Keep reading.
How to Force a #SCCM Task Sequence to Fail
Task Sequences are used heavily in Operating System Deployment (#OSD), but they are also used to control the workflow of installing applications, migrations, updates and even patching. Just like any piece of work in the IT world, we need to go through a Dev, QA, Prod lifecycle while developing these. More often than not, even the simplest Task Sequence needs a little debugging. Perhaps in your own Task Sequence you’ve developed, or perhaps you inherited the Task Sequence.
BigDemo_DPM.PS1 #PowerShell #MVPBuzz #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I have commenced work on our newest book Deploying System Center Data Protection Manager featuring version 1801. As part of the book we are going to use once again, our BigDemo series of scripts to deploy the lab. I thought this time it...
Install-Veeam.PS1 #PowerShell Install #VeeamVanguard #Veeam
Install-SCVMM-HyperV.PS1 #PowerShell #SCVMM #SystemCenter #1801 #MVPBuzz
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In this blog post I will show you how you can deploy SCVMM 1801 to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. This is a really handy little script because it can help you get System Center Virtual Machine Manager going in your lab in a snap. The basic steps to...
Install-SCOM-HyperV.PS1 Script #SystemCenter #MVPBuzz #MVPHour #PowerShell
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, In this blog post I will show you how you can deploy SCOM 1801 to a Hyper-V Virtual Machine. This is a really handy little script because it can help you get System Center Operations Manager going in your lab in a snap. The basic steps to...
Routing and NAT MOD for BigDemo – #MVPBuzz @MVPDays
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, For your viewing pleasure we have added a nice modification to our BigDemo scripts used to provision environments for our demos and books. This time we have cleaned up a lot of the manual steps required to get routing working in our example...
Enable Deduplication on #StorageSpacesDirect on ReFS Volumes – Windows Insider Build 17079 #MVPBuzz #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fan, Here is a preview of some of the amazing content coming out in our next @MVPDays Publishing book on Storage Spaces Direct and SCVMM 1711. We went ahead and built out the lab based on the latest build of Windows Server Insider Build 17079. One of...
SCVMM 1711 Fails with Error 25325 – Workaround #StorageSpacesDirect #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Today I have been having fun trying to get a Windows Insiders 17079 Cluster build via SCVMM 1711. From the VMM Console when I try to build the cluster I get Error Message 25325. I checked the Create Cluster report in C:\windows\cluster\reports...
Configuring Networking for #StorageSpacesDirect with #SCVMM #PowerShell #MVPBuzz
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, If you haven't had a chance to yet you should grab yourself a copy of our latest book. Deploying System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2016 – Step by Step https://leanpub.com/deployingsystemcentervirtualmachinemanager2016 In this book we walk...
Get-SCPortClassification Scripting issue in SCVMM 1711 – Fixed #MVPBuzz #HyperV #StorageSpaceDirect
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, As many of you know I'm in the middle of writing our next book which is updating the SCVMM content from 2016 to 1711 Technical Preview. In the midst of trying to automate the lab build I found I nice little anomaly in the...
Introducing BaseImageBuilder.PS1 – #HyperV #WindowsInsiders #MVPBuzz #MVPHour
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, Today I peeled out and updated part of my BigDemo Script that builds Base Images for my lab as a Standalone Script. It's called BaseImageBuilder.PS1 and the source code can be found at:...
Convert-WindowsImage.PS1 not working with Windows Server Insider 17079 – Fixed #MVPHour #MVPBuzz
Hey Checkyourlogs fans, I have been updating my BigDemo Scripts which I use in all of our books and wanted to start upgrading them to Windows Server Insider 17079 this week. Now, normally I would just use the standard Convert-WindowsImage.PS1 script to build my gold...
Retrieving your Azure AD Tenant ID Display Name and Guid/ObjectID
Ever need to know your Azure ID Tenant Guid/ObjectID? Here are a few ways to find it.
STEP BY STEP INSTALL VEEAM ONE 9.5 AND BACKUP & REPLICATION 9.5 UPDATE 3 #VEEAM #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP BY STEP
As you know, Veeam released the service pack 3 on December 2017, it’s not fix bugs only, it also includes a lot of new features –
Built-in agent management,
Insider protection for Veeam Cloud Connect,
Data location tagging…
The details information you can check from Veeam website https://www.veeam.com/kb2354 and https://www.veeam.com/kb2353.
The steps are straightforward, but you still need to be careful about two things, the first one is “If you use Veeam ONE to monitor Veeam Backup & Replication or Veeam Cloud Connect, be sure to install Update 3 for Veeam ONE 9.5 first” and the second is “If you are a tenant of a cloud provider, please contact your provider before upgrading to ensure the provider has applied Update 3 on their end”.
STEP BY STEP MIGRATE EXCHANGE 2010 SERVICES TO 2016 PART 16 #EXCHANGE #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP BY STEP
Happy New Year!! Checkyourlogs fans, I am going to show you the final steps of public folder migration. let’s follow the steps and completed it.
New Book – Deploying Config Manager Current Branch with PKI – Step by Step #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey Checkyourlogs Fans, Our team of Expert Authors has had an early start to 2018 as we already have our first book published. This time we looked at the complexities of deploying Microsoft's Configuration Manager with PKI and documented the heck out of it (220 pages...
MVPDays V-Conf Attendee Questions – #MVPBuzz #MVPHour @MVPAward #Canitpro
Hey MVPDays Fans, Today we had an amazing full day long event and I wanted to highlight some really great questions that we had throughout the day. What PoSH Terminal was MVP Thomas Rayner using during his session? Thomas said he is using ConEmu with a custom prompt....
MVPDays V-Conf January 2018 – Session Recordings #MVPHour @MVPDays #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey MVPDays Fans, We have had a chance to compile the session recordings from the MVPDays V-Conf that ran this week January 17, 2018 We had a jam-packed lineup covering many amazing sessions including: Storage Spaces Direct, Azure Site Recovery, SQL HA, Microsoft...
Is Mellanox Technologies in trouble? Announcement of 100 US/Canada Job Cuts – Chip Line Development halted #MVPBuzz #MVPHour #StorageSpacesDirect
Hey Storage Spaces Direct Fans, As many of you know a LOT of us have been using Mellanox Technology components in our Storage Spaces Direct designs for the past 18 months. Is it time to re-think and start looking at alternate technologies? Well, the answer is likely...
MVPDays V-Conf December 2017 – Session Recordings #MVPHour @MVPDays #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey MVPDays Fans, We have had a chance to compile the session recordings from the MVPDays V-Conf that ran in December 2017. We had a jam-packed lineup covering many amazing sessions including: Storage Spaces Direct, Azure Site Recovery, IOT, SharePoint Search, Azure...
Save the date – MVPDays is coming back live in 2018 1st stop Calgary, AB May 26, 2018 – #MVPHour #MVPBuzz @MVPAward
Hey MVPDays Fans, Cristal and I have just finished working with our local SQL Saturday chapter and with great pleasure we are announcing a joint event. On Saturday May 26, 2018 we will be holding MVPDays alongside SQL Saturday Calgary. We will be launching the...
MVPDays V-Conf October 2017 – Session Recordings #MVPHour @MVPDays #MVPBuzz
Hey MVPDays Fans, Happy New Year and for you first gift of the year we have compiled all of the sessions from the October show on YouTube. You can now watch the full day of conference sessions ranging from Azure, PowerShell, Microsoft Flow, Storage Spaces Direct, SQL,...
STEP BY STEP MIGRATE EXCHANGE 2010 SERVICES TO 2016 PART 15 #EXCHANGE #WINDOWSSERVER #MVPHOUR #STEP BY STEP
Checkyourlogs fans, I am going to show you how to migrate public folder from exchange 2010 to 2016 step by step today.
There is no more legacy public folder database, public folder mailboxes also known as modern public folders, if you still need public folders, migrate them to Exchange 2016. Public folder migration is a one-way process, if something goes wrong, you can roll back but any changes made since the migration will be lost.
System Center Operations Manager 2016 Console – Silent Install with Management Pack Workaround
From more often than not, it gets tedious to install consoles on many administrators computers. SCOM 2016 seems to have changed a little bit. This is how I will now install the console.
