Many blogs were written about this phenomenon but it took me three searches to really find the correct answer. Hopefully you landed here right by your first try 🙂 The symptoms: On the Server Manager Dashboard there is a ‘red service’ warning. The service listed is the Shell Hardware Detection service on one (or… Continue reading Shell Hardware Detection keeps stopping on Server 2012
SharePoint Online Content Viewing Missing
Some of you may have worked in a regulated environment and know how important there an audit trace can be. Now, normally when you are using an enterprise level document sharing platform you expect the same to be true for it disregarding its implementation: in-house or in the cloud. Especially when this feature is… Continue reading SharePoint Online Content Viewing Missing
An open answer to Microsoft concerning the file history featurette
Dear reader, As is already far and wide known, since Windows 8, the new trendy way of backup and recovery of files is the so called "File History", which is, to put it crudely, Microsoft’s answer to Apple’s Time Machine. It breaks the present System Backup and Recovery in such a way that both cannot… Continue reading An open answer to Microsoft concerning the file history featurette
Understand Group Policy Preferences Action Types
As I was implementing some Group Policy Preferences recently I stumbled upon a couple of strange behaviors that are everything else but intuitive. Here they go. Action Types Behavior The first topic includes the so called CRUD action types Create, Replace, Update or Delete and especially the difference between Replace and Update. Remember: there… Continue reading Understand Group Policy Preferences Action Types
Why Backup Using Saved State with Integration Services
As of generation Microsoft Server 2012 there is the option to back up your virtual machines using the GUI wizard. The strange thing though is that when I selected the VM (in this case PC02, see image below) the Hyper-V server insisted on (Backup Using Saved State). Now for what I was sure –… Continue reading Why Backup Using Saved State with Integration Services
Server 2012 R2 Essentials Hyper-V How-to
If you search internet for "2012 R2 Essentials" and "Hyper-V" you will see thousands of posts about this new added role, but hardly any describing how to really enable or install it. Even the TechNet article is somewhat vague when stipulating under Virtualize Your Environment that "depending on your system provider’s configuration, the Before… Continue reading Server 2012 R2 Essentials Hyper-V How-to
Server 2012 R2 Essentials Goodies
As reported earlier a preview release of Server 2012 R2 Essentials was made available. Mostly all the ovations go for improvements like Hyper-V role, making it possible to virtualize the Essentials as a Domain Controller, as well as the enriched connector, as summarized by Paul Thurrott. I would like to bring to light some more… Continue reading Server 2012 R2 Essentials Goodies
2012 R2 Previews available for everyone
As many sources have already reported, a new wave of betas, aka previews, of the Windows Blue Server generation, i.e. 2012 R2, are available for download as of 06/23/2013. The whole list of goodies can be found here: http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=15051 As this author, and MJF (http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-starts-rolling-out-blue-previews-of-windows-server-sql-server-7000017242/) report, the downloads are available for MSDN and Technet subscribers.… Continue reading 2012 R2 Previews available for everyone
checking incoming server settings last resort
Symptoms: You are receiving a message “checking incoming server settings” on an Android device when adding an account for an Exchange Mail server. The event times out and no connection is established. Quick fix of last resort: If you are sure all other prerequisites are met (see below) make sure that you are connecting from… Continue reading checking incoming server settings last resort
Cannot login to microsoftonline
I just received an electric shock! If you are trying to sign in with your Live ID account to microsoftonline.com or microsoft.com (update: office365.com) sites you will not be able to do so!!! The occurrence is already listed here. Matter-of-factly if your Live ID has a google domain you will be advised to logon at… Continue reading Cannot login to microsoftonline