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You can download your own free trial of Windows Server Essentials from here. Windows Server Essentials is designed to be used in Small Business and has a limitation of 25 users or 50 devices. Microsoft brought out Windows Server Essentials when it discontinued the Small Business Server. Watch the video to learn how to install …
This error happens when installing SQL Server 2012 The following error has occurred: Wait on the Database Engine recovery handle failed. Check the SQL Server error log for potential causes. For help, click: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?LinkID=20476&ProdName=Microsoft%20SQL%20Server&EvtSrc=setup.rll&EvtID=50000&ProdVer=11.0.3128.0&EvtType=0xD15B4EB2%25400x4BDAF9BA%25401306%254026 To fix this issue you need to completly uninstall SQL by: Go to Programs and Features Right click Microsoft SQL Server …
I got the following error message when trying to mount an exchange database after recovering a server from a backup: Microsoft Exchange Error ——————————————————– Failed to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1646558789’. Mailbox Database 1646558789 Failed Error: Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: Mailbox Database 1646558789; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed …
When you migrate to a new Domain Controller you will need to transfer the FSMO(Flexible Single Master Operations) roles before you remove the original domain controller. Transferring the RID, PDC and Infrastructure Master roles Open the Active Directory Users and Computers console Right click on Active Directory Users and Computers, then click connect to domain …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …