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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***Please note this article is out of date and no longer current** I use these commands to connect to Exchange Online in Office365.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 …
I recently have needed to find a column but could not remember what table it was in the database. You can run this query on your SQL Server to find a specific column in the whole database: SELECT COLUMN_NAME, TABLE_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE COLUMN_NAME LIKE’ %ColumnName%’ You will need to replace the ColumnName(that is in …
This video is made using the windows 10 technical preview. To change your password in Windows 10 is quite easy you can just click ctrl +alt + del and then select change password. You can also change your Windows 10 password using the User settings app.
This error happens when trying to upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 through the Microsoft Store. If you get this error what you need to do is install all of your Windows updates and then try the upgrade to Windows 8.1 again. You can upgrade Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 for free through the Microsoft …
The Event 13 error happens when backing up a Hyper-V virtual machine from Server 2008 or Server 2008 R2 and the guest VM is Server 2012 or 2012 R2. A “scope snapshot” is a volume snapshot that is new for Windows Server 2012, this means that it is not supported by the host OS (Server …
NMap(stands for network mapper) is a small utility that has both a command line option called NMap and also a graphical option called Zenmap. It is a free and open source program that is licensed under the GNU GPL(more details on the GNU GPL license can be found in my introduction to Linux). Why do …
Secure boot and UEFI BIOS is something that has been introduced with windows 8 and 8.1. Secure boot stops you from accessing the hard drive when booting to CD or USB and therefore stops you using traditional tools to reset your windows password. To bypass this you need to remove your hard drive and connect it …
As I went over in the introduction to Linux there are many different distros of Linux which means there is no one way to install Linux, in fact if you want to use Linux you do not even need to install it you can use what is called ” Linux Live”, people often use Linux …