Been a long time since I posted anything so I thought I’d throw out a handy trick I’ve come across in a few places to make life easier for deploying workstations. Most of the places I’ve worked in have been Dell shops, though this may work pretty well with other brands of workstations. You want […]
Category: Systems Administration
Sometimes the Office activation procedure just won’t work for you. No matter how many times you try to get it to connect through the GUI it just won’t do it. You will get this annoying error even though you’re connected to the internet and everything else is working just fine: Well there’s a way to […]
A commenter named Justin pointed this out to me in the ShoreTel Active Directory Integration post. When you set up Active Directory Integration, one of the ‘problems’ is that ShoreTel will pull the e-mail address from the “User Principal Name” of your Active Directory System. It grays out the email field in the GUI so you can’t […]
I ran into this problem when we upgraded from Exchange 2003 directly to 2010 several years ago. I’d bet it’s a general problem for Exchange 2007, 2010, and 2013 as well. Some users OWA experience will be set to the Light or Basic mode instead of the better “Premium” mode, which is the more familiar […]
My certificates expired recently on my Exchange server and I had to set about renewing them. Not fun, more on that later. I was going to make a long how to on this but Microsoft has a wiki post on TechNet about this very subject with pictures and explanations. How to use a self signed […]