To reset admin password you will need physical access to server You should now be able to login with the newly set password and be prompted to create a new password

Have you restarted the machine before installing the Exchange management tools and it keeps repeating even post the restart, check what is causing the restart on the machine – any updates which needs to be completed, any software/application which was installed recently requires a restart? As a workaround, delete the registry key PendingFileRenameOperations in the […]

We’ve seen this behaviour aswell with the Office365 Click-to-Run Outlook version due to the Roaming Signature feature that was introduced. You can disable this within the registry of the current user. Hive: HKEY_CURRENT_USERKey Path: Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Outlook\Setup\Value Name: DisableRoamingSignaturesTemporaryToggleValue Type: REG_DWORDValue Data:1

So the other day I had an issue when connecting to hyper-v guests using Hyper-V console on Windows Server I would just be given the error “cannot connect to the virtual machine try to connect again” looking around and scouring the internet yielded no solution until I had an “ah-ha” moment and realized the machine […]

It’s not uncommon to find a system on which RAID drivers have been installed and something like the Intel Rapid Storage Technology package is handling storage devices, but where an SSD might require AHCI operation for more optimal performance or configurability. In these cases, there is in fact a way to switch operation from either […]

Add Permissions:Add-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “source”@domain.local:\Calendar -User “destination”@domain.local -AccessRights Editor Change Permissions:Set-MailboxFolderPermission -Identity “source”@domain.local:\Calendar -User “destinations”@domain.local -AccessRights Editor

So I had a client that was unable to do a backup to his ReadyNAS and after some searching around I found that a registry key needs to be added to the system so that the backup can complete. This has something to do with SMB/CIFS extenstions that are sent by Veeam that ReadyNAS does […]

Having bad time data not only makes it difficult to troubleshoot a device it also does not help when logging to a centralized logging server. I often come across HP switches that do not have their time configured correctly, this could be because the admin was lazy or more likely does not know how to […]

Recently we implemented a network using Ubiquity Edgeswitches and had to enable a DHCP relay server for our VLAN’s to do this we had to use the CLI Log into the edgeswitch using ssh and your admin credentials Type “Enable” and enter your password when prompted To check any ip-helpers configured to can type “show […]

To add a domain user local adminisrator right on a Domain controller: Open a command promt using the “Run as administrator” function and then run the following command. net localgroup Administrators /add {domain}\{user}