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Windows Server 2016 Core: Active Directory Domain Services

To lower my memory footprint in my home lab I decided to move from into Windows Server 2016 Core.  That said running Active Directory Domain Service seems to be the perfect candidate to start with my new architectured lab environment. There are several prerequisites required for enabling ADDS, but I am not going to get into […]

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The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration

After a quick LAMP install, I decided to install PhpMyAdmin. Logging into I noticed a warring message that read: The mcrypt extension is missing. Please check your PHP configuration To resolve this I attempted the following: Elevated my console to root (sudo -i) apt-get install mcrypt apt-get install php5-mcrypt (no need because the previous command […]

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Exchange Server 2013 SP1 Transport Service Issues

I recently updated Exchange Server 2013 CU3 to Exchange Server 2013 SP1. The update seemed to go smoothly however I discovered that external emails were not flowing. Oddly enough outbound emails worked just fine. Symptoms No inbound email being processed by Exchange 2013 SP1. You also notice the following loged in the Application Event Logs: […]

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Installing Cumulative Updates for Exchange Server 2013

Tonight’s “home work” Assignment: Update  Companies Exchange 2013 to Cumulative Update 3 Purpose Address many of the issues that existed in Cumulative Update 2. Bring additional value to the company Oh and some of the newly introduced features / enhancements should help also: Usability improvements when adding members to distribution groups in the Exchange Administration […]