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Goodbye Robin Williams

“You realize there are a lot of amazing people out there to be grateful for. And a loving God… That’s what life is about.” – Robin Williams, 1951-2014 I wasn’t ready to say goodbye.  You helped me via your art know that I didn’t have to be “normal” that there wasn’t a reason to fit […]

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Remove Dead Exchange Servers from Active Directory

Working with  my Exchange 2012 Hybrid configuration I into the following error: ERROR : Subtask NeedsConfiguration execution failed: Configure MRS Proxy Settings Execution of the Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory cmdlet has thrown an exception. This may indicate invalid parameters in your hybrid configuration settings. The task wasn’t able to connect to IIS on the server ‘exchange’. Make sure […]

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Cumulative Update 6 for Exchange Server 2013

I’ve been working with the Microsoft team on several issues I have faced with my Exchange Hybrid deployment. Most recent issue: HCW Serialization Error Today I am informed that Cumulative Update 6 for Exchange Server 2013 was just released. Cumulative Update 6 for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 was released on August 26, 2014. This cumulative update […]

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Reset Equallogic to Default Settings

While its fresh on / in my mind I will share with you. It was time to reset my Dell, Equallogic Storage Array. I am in the middle of troubleshooting some issues and its for the best. The steps are simple so I will just put them out here. Sorry no frills. To reset the Dell, Equallogic Storage […]

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Error: Subtask CheckPrereqs execution failed: Check Tenant Prerequisites

I needed to make a change to our Hybrid configuration when the following issue was encountered: Subtask CheckPrereqs execution failed: Check Tenant Prerequisites After multiple attempts to run this and troubleshooting. I find out that the issue was caused by recent changes to Exchange Online. The first KB informed me to remove an invalid certificate KB2772596 – http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2772596 The […]

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Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array

Dirty Cache – Dell, Equallogic Storage Array I hope you never encounter such an issue, but if you found yourself searching for a method to get online you’re in luck. Symptoms: Equallogic Storage Array  no longer responds to pings iSCSI attached volumes have all gone offline Unable to access the Equallogic Storage Array using SAN HQ […]