I had a need recently to restore a production SCCM backup into a lab environment in order to perform some tests. I built a domain and site system servers using…
The Office 365 Exchange Online Protection (EOP) team has been hard at work on new features that reflect Microsoft’s continued commitment to provide advanced security, reliability and protection of your…
Recently, PEI had a client that was having constant issue with time synchronization within their domain. All of their systems were consistently 2-5 minutes behind. As Windows administrators know, this…
Problem: Upon trying to open or preview an attachment (.pdf, .doc, .wav, etc.), an error comes up saying “Unable to create file…” and asks you to check the folder’s permissions….
I ran into a T-1 issue with a customer T-1 circuit this last weekend that I thought might be helpful to others in troubleshooting their circuits. SETUP I was troubleshooting…
If you run into an issue where the Lync client shows the following error, a very likely cause is that the DNS settings are incorrect or are missing altogether. Symptoms…
Recently we have seen an influx of users and clients complaining that their Lync audio is broken on their Dell laptops. The symptoms are all the same, after months of…
Overview Microsoft Exchange Server accounts can be set up with an Exchange Personal Archive by the Exchange administrator. The Exchange personal archive is a specialized Exchange mailbox in addition to…
I recently set up Exchange Online for Unified Messaging for a Lync 2013 deployment that I didn’t build, and with which I didn’t have any familiarity. After following the available…
Recently I was working with a client who downloaded the retail version of SQL 2012 Standard and put it in evaluation mode. It had been meant to be a test…