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Debugging: When Recursive NDRs Bring the FSC to It’s Knees And Causes Queuing
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. A while back (circa July 2015), we had alerting for queuing for a Dedicated customer. When we went and looked, the messages were just sitting in the Submission queue. We dumped the EdgeTransport proc
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PowerShell + C#: Accessing the Current Runspace And Adding a Snap-In
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. I’ve been coding an assembly for import into the Exchange Management Shell (EMS) in C# for some time. One of the problems that I ran into was how to load the Support assembly, since…
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C#: Returning ADSI COM Properties of a User Object (Or Any Object, Really)
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. A few months ago, I was working on a project to query for specific AD properties of a user-object programmatically. I knew the properties I wanted to return and I had worked with returning…
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O365: Accessing Another Mailbox via OWA URL
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. It may become necessary for an admin or delegate to access a mailbox (other than their own) in OWA. There’s two ways to do this and most people are familiar with the change in…
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Server2012: Adding DAG Member Results in ‘The fully qualified domain name for node ‘EMEA-SWEEX15-01′ could not be found.’
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. To get around this, add the permissions by following this article for pre-staging the Cluster Name
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Server 2012: Using PowerShell to Check for KB2878635
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. In the course of an investigation, it became necessary to write a PowerShell script to check the current file version of the kernelbase.dll. I needed to compare it against the file version of a…
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O365: Manual Outlook Profile Creation in Wave 15
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. After the migration to Wave 15, Tenant Admins may find it necessary to create manual Outlook profiles; primarily, for troubleshooting and reproducing issues. It should be important to note that this i
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RBAC: Associating a Command With a Specific Groups
NOTE: This post – drafted, composed, written, and published by me – originally appeared on https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/johnbai and is potentially (c) Microsoft. In some scenarios, it becomes prudent to know what Role is able to run which command. We can found out which groups are able to run which commands via the following syntax: