Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
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I’ve been a Microsoft focused infrastructure nerd since 1997 and since 2005 I have been running my own consultancy, Adexis (www.adexis.com.au). We specialise in AD, Exchange, Lync, TMG, SCCM, SCOM, SCVVM, HyperV and anything else that falls into the Microsoft infrastructure space. Follow this blog to get resources on SCCM.
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
3w ago
A while ago i joined an organisation whose MS estate was in need of a significant amount of love, time and effort. Getting them off of 2012 R2 DC’s and onto 2022 DC’s, upgrading the forest/domain functional levels and getting replication times down were the obvious first jobs… but once they were done – there ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
3M ago
At the moment im cleaning up a very poorly designed and implemented file server structure. and before you say it – a large amount of data has been moved into teams/sharepoint/onedrive etc already – but the storage costs were getting excessive – so there is still plenty of data on prem. One of the issues ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
3M ago
AADConnect has a JSON file and the ability to export – and there are also various AADConnect documenters out there… but sometimes you just want to get a core piece of info without having to start the GUI of wade through many pages of JSON. Get-ADSyncConnector | select Name Note the name of your “internal ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
3M ago
Today i had a DC that was otherwise healthy, but reporting error 4612 and 5012 in the DFS Replication log, specifically: The DFS Replication service failed to communicate with partner <decommissioned DC name> for replication group Domain System Volume. The partner did not recognize the connection or the replication group configuration. My first port of ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
11M ago
Email chain with panasonic support below…. asking for the totally unreasonable option to setting a timer for auto-off within the “comfort cloud” app. Long version below – short version, Panasonic seem to have some mind-blowingly unhelpful people working for them…. go with a different brand. My initial request via web form Support type: ContactUs(Feedback or ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
11M ago
This is a somewhat niche issue – which is why im documententing it here. Scenario Exchange migration to exchange online which i came into approx 75% of the way through – so i don’t have any history on why some things have happened (and there is no useful doco) Tenant wide retention policies are in ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
11M ago
Working at a client whom are approx 75% of the way through their migration to exchange online – and there are some odd things im running into – so here’s one of them. The scenario and issue Exchange hybrid setup, with servers on prem and EXO active. Active mailboxes in both. Mail flow from on ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
1y ago
Recently I had an exceedingly poor experience with my external DNS provider, Namecheap. After they had some mail issues, their 2FA emails weren’t coming through…. I could see they weren’t even hitting O365… but of course, their support refused to acknowledge this – and went down a path of (bizarrely) insistently asking for a scan ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
1y ago
Im just finishing up on a project where i was upgrading a bunch of servers from 2012 R2 to 2019 or 2022 (depending on what the associated app supported), including a bunch of SQL clusters. I’ve always been SQL adjacent – working wit/upgrading/installing SQL for other products to utilise… so i have some incidental knowledge ..read more
Hayes Jupe's Blog | Microsoft Infrastructure
1y ago
When installing, seemingly randomly i will get the following in the application event log and msi log for CrEdge Microsoft Edge works best with the latest Windows Updates. Once you download updates and restart your device, rerun the installer. This is particularly frustrating as The device has all current Windows updates applied The install works ..read more