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Windows 10 Technical Preview is now released and is available for download. If you want you can download and install Windows 10 Technical Preview. Microsoft has skipped a number in there naming scheme and completely missed Windows 9. There is a few different rumours about why Microsoft decided to skip the number 9 but really …
PowerShell is proving to be a wonderful tool for Microsoft System Admins. The ability to send emails in a PowerShell script can be quite useful, you can use this simple little function to send an email from PowerShell. You could potentially use this function to send you an email when an automatic PowerShell task runs and …
What is an NDR? NDR stands for non-delivery report. When an email is rejected from an email server you may receive an NDR email, this usually happens because you have sent the email to an email address that does not exist. This list of NDR codes and what they mean may help you for diagnosing your …
You may receive error code 800F0922 when trying to update Windows Server 2012 or Server 2012 R2 when you are trying to install Security Update KB2920189. This error is caused by a conflict with Secure Boot. To make the update work you need to disable secure boot. Reboot the machine into the BIOS, (usually by …
To update Windows 10 you can do this two ways. The first way to update Windows 10 is to open the control panel, then select Windows Update. Then check for updates and install them. The second option is to open the Windows Update app. To open Windows Update app just type in update in the …
With Windows 8 and 8.1 computers some of them have been coming out with BIOS embedded product keys. This has done away with the stickers that had the product key on them stuck to the bottom of laptops and stuck on the side of desktops. Activating these when you install from traditional windows installation media(cd, …
First you need to make sure you have the Azure AD Module installed on the computer. If you do not have the the Azure AD Module installed you need to: Open PowerShell as administrator Run the command (get-item C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules\MSOnline\Microsoft.Online.Administration.Automation.PSModule.dll).VersionInfo.FileVersion Then you need to run the following commands in powershell: $msolcred = get-credential connect-msolservice -credential $msolcred …
Usually when you have a VSS error you will need to reboot your server or open the services.msc console and restart the service that is associated with it. I know I have had to do this a number of times with Exchange services on Small Business Servers to resolve backup issues. This is a task …
A lot of the documentation for recovering folders from exchange says that you can do it straight from outlook by selecting the recover deleted items icon Outlook. In theory this is fine but in practice your exchange users do not have permission to do this and they will get an error saying: Outlook was unable …
***Please note this article is out of date and no longer current** I use these commands to connect to Exchange Online in Office365. To do this you need to open powershell and run these command: $LiveCred = Get-Credential $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange-ConnectionUri https://ps.outlook.com/powershell -Credential $LiveCred -Authentication Basic -AllowRedirection Import-PSSession $Session After the first line it …