Have you ever come across scenarios where the computer account password is out of sync with the Active Directory version of it? Or maybe you’ve done something silly like build two machines with the same name and added them to the domain one after the other? Either way – there’s a few ways to fix it but I recently discovered that Microsoft had provided an update to … [Read more...]
Archives for September 2014
How to fix a VERY large Windows.edb file.
I noticed my disk space is getting pretty low on my laptop. I used Treesize to determine that one of the biggest files was my Windows.edb file at 15.5GB in size. This is linked to the Windows Search services, and it contains information designed to make my searching faster. To reduce the size of this file, we can rebuild the index. Go to Control Panel Select … [Read more...]
How can I migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or Windows Server 2012 R2 with the Essentials Experience?
This is something we’ve been doing more of late, migrating customers from SBS 2003, SBS 2008 or even SBS 2011 over to Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials or more interestingly, the full version of Windows Server 2012 R2 Standard with the Essentials Experience role added in. When we do this, the email side of things means that clients email needs to be migrated to either … [Read more...]