Tag: Microsoft
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Windows Server 2022 Released – What to remember before you start upgrading!
Microsoft dropped a surprise on us today by releasing Windows Server 2022 to no fanfare at all. It’s been released today 18th August 2021, it will have mainstream support until the 13th October 2026 and will be considered end of life on the 14th October 2031 (how are we talking about the 2030’s already?!). This…
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Workaround: KB5005043 / Security Update August 2021 Won’t Install on Windows Server 2016
I’ve found a lot of clients are having the same issue with their Windows Server 2016 servers and getting KB5005043 to install. It seems that Microsoft might not be identifying this patch correctly as it doesn’t show within Windows Update for most and then downloading the patch manually from the Microsoft Catalog results in the…
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Microsoft Exchange Server 2010/2013/2016/2019 – Unable to connect to OWA/ECP “protectionCertificates.Length<1"
Microsoft have done it again, with another security update, they’ve broken a lot of environments, I wish there was a better communication method than finding a small footnote on a blog post that a patch was going to potentially break environments. Many organisations have automated patch workflows that end up catching people out when this…
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Microsoft Skype for Business Online’s Retirement is this Month! What to do?
So, you’ve been living under a rock, or you’ve just been busy with everything else, it doesn’t matter, if you’re either using Skype for Business Online exclusively or in a hybrid state with Lync Server/Skype for Business Server, you need to take action this month. Within this blog post we’ll be looking at the Skype…
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Microsoft Exchange Server KB5000871: Unable to Apply “owaauth.dll”, 400 Bad Request & Server Error in ECP application
Hey, so I’ve been going through all our customers this week that’ve been identified as potentially at risk by the latest Exchange Server vulnerabilities (full details straight from Microsoft here) and as you can expect from a rapid response release, it’s not quite consistent when installing. Please be painfully aware of the Microsoft installation notes…
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Vodcast Appearance: Nexus Bitesize – Backing up Microsoft Teams & The Release of Veeam Backup for Office 365 v5
Just a quick blog update today. I was recently asked to appear in a Nexus Bitesize vodcast to talk about Microsoft Teams and Office 365 data protection in general, it was a great opportunity to highlight Veeam’s latest release of their Veeam Backup for Office 365 v5 product. To check out the Bitesize go to…
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Add RD Gateway Error “2147965800”
Just a quick blog today. I was deploying an RD Gateway into an environment today and I came across a unique error code when adding it into the deployment, “2147965800”. Upon checking the event log on the gateway server I could see a couple of policies were created successfully but then I saw a couple…
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Polycom/3PIP Device doesn’t get any results (Skype for Business Server)
Evening, I had a support ticket I dealt with today that I couldn’t find any useful information on via the web, so I’m here to spread the knowledge, if you’re reading this it likely means you’ve searched one of the keywords here and are hoping to get your Skype for Business Address Book Service sorted…
Michael Paul | @micoolpaul 