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Category: Windows

  • Enable Anonymous Relay on Exchange 2016

    Open Exchange Admin Center and Navigate to Mail Flow > Receive Connectors Create a new Receive Connector with following settings: Role: Fontend Transport Type: Custom

  • Remote Desktop requires old user name after account rename

    Issue User account name was changed in via Control Panel > User Accounts > Change Your Account Name. While local login screen shows new user name, Remote Desktop Connection only works when the old login name is provided.

  • Backup live data using PowerShell, DiskShadow, and RoboCopy

    Robocopy is my go-to tool for quick file-level backups. Unfortunately it doesn’t deal well with locked files (live databases, pst files, etc.). In those instances I deploy another great tool – DiskShadow that allows to tap into functionality of Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS).  This is the way it works: diskshadow creates a shadow copy of a…

  • Incorrect time on a Domain Controller running inside Hyper-V VM

    Computer clocks withing whole domain run 5-6 minutes behind. Normally, authoritative time source for the whole domain is a Domain Controller (DC) that holds PDC Emulator FSMO role in the forest root domain. You can find which DC holds this role by running: netdom /query fsmo. Fixing time issues on this machine normally fixes it for the…

  • Symantec DLO – can’t add storage location – specified path is invalid

    Issue Cannot create a new Storage Location in Symantec Backup Exec Desktop and Laptop Option. When trying to add an existing local or remote folder following error is displayed: Warning htlps://www.veritas.com/support/en_US.htmlThe specified palh is invalid.Unable lo create the directory ‘D:\Backups\DLO’ on computer ‘<Server-Name>’. Please check the path does not reside on a read-only device such as a…

  • .NET Framework 3.5 Feature Installation Fails – Source Files Could Not Be Found

    Issue Installing .NET Framework 3.5 Feature (via Roles and Features Wizard) on Windows Server 2012 fails with error: Installation of one or more roles, role services, or features failed.The source files could not be found. Try installing the roles, role services, or features again in a new Add Roles and Features Wizard session, and on the…

  • Send emails are not saved to Office 365 / Exchange shared mailbox sent items

    Issue Emails sent from a shared mailbox (users have full access and send as permissions) are saved only in user’s sent items folder, but not in shared mailbox sent items. Resolution Connect of Office 365 via PowerShell and run following command: set-mailbox <mailbox name> -MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled $True To check status of the MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled property: Get-Mailbox Sharedmailbox1 | select…

  • MS Outlook Signature Editor Squishes HTML Signatures in Narrow Column

    Issue HTML signatures that contain tables get squished inside Outlook 2016 signature editor. They look normal when opened inside a browser or in Outlook email editor.

  • Google Chrome failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect

    Issue Google Chrome fails to start with the following error: C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exeThe application has failed to start because its side-by-side configuration is incorrect. Please see the application event log or use the command-line sxstrace.exe tool for more detail.

  • L2TP/IPsec VPN from Windows 10 fails with error “remote server is no responding…”

    Background Synology DS413 NAS configured as L2TP/IPSec VPN server and located behind Draytek Vigor 2860 NAT. L2TP VPN pass through enabled on Draytek Vigor Router (VPN and Remote Access > Remote Access Control > remove checkboxes from Enable IPSec VPN Service and Enable L2TP VPN Service). UDP ports 1701, 500 or 4500 are forwarded from Draytek Router to Synology…

  • Xbox One controllers randomly disconnect

    I had an issue on my own Xbox One where one or other controller would randomly disconnect and then reconnect few seconds later after pressing A button on the affected controller. After ruling out obvious issues (low batteries, wireless interference, re-pairing, updating firmware), I started looking into hardware. Original Xbox One Controllers communicate using proprietary Wi-Fi…

  • Office 365 – Disable focused inbox for whole organisation

    Connect to PowerShell to Office 365 To disable Focused Inbox run: Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $false To enable Focused Inbox run: Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $true To check Focused Inbox status: Get-OrganizationConfig (look near the bottom)