During my time as a Microsoft PFE , I contributed to numerous IT Operational Assessments. While there are many tasks within an Operational Assessment, I wanted to provide a ‘ simple version ’ by reviewing past tickets/outages over a specified...

So what about Active Directory Permissions on an Object using PowerShell?  There are a number of options and methods to manage Active Directory permissions, but here are some common tasks that I might perform using PowerShell. NOTE: This blog uses...

Over the years, there has been a request for finding various permissions on Public Folder objects within Exchange. I figured that I would share how to do some of these tasks, specific to Exchange 2010 and 2013. NOTE: The following commands use the...

Recently I deployed Exchange 2010 SP3 and experienced a few headaches when it came to the LAG copy.  It turns out that this was probably related to the known issue with Exchange 2010 SP3 and 8dot3Name , even though we never activated these copies...

Recently I had to install Lync Server 2010 on a repurposed Windows 2008 R2 server within a lab environment. One of the issues that I ran across was preventing me from accessing the Lync Control Panel from the Lync Front End server. Attempting to open...