There are many Microsoft technologies reaching End of Support in the near future--Windows 7, Office 2010, Windows Server 2008/R2, and SQL Server 2008/R2. With so many looming deadlines, we get...
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Windows Server 2008 (SP2) & 2008 R2 (SP1) will reach End of Extended Support on 1/14/2020 Microsoft has announced the end of extended support date for Windows Server 2008 (service...
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I recently had a client project that involved upgrading their Active Directory to Windows 2016. Their domain and functional levels were both Windows 2000 (!) so we had to do…
Working on internal patching, I ran into an issue when attempting to upgrade vCenter 6.0 to 6.5. In the past, migrating from Windows-based vCenter to Linux-based Virtual Center Server Appliance…
Server 2016 Released, Server 2012 R2 Discontinued I am the Contract Manager here at PEI, and for the most part, I work with all of our client’s service contracts and…
Recently, I started building up a new test lab with Microsoft Server 2016. In this lab, I had the domain and forest functional level set to Server 2016. This was…
Windows Server 2016 is here. Sometimes it feels like Server 2012 R2 was just released. On the other hand, Windows 8 and 8.1 are feeling a bit dated, so it…
Recently, while trying to update the custom message on an Exchange Auto-Attendant, I was present with this error: Starting a command on remote server failed with the following error message…
Mary Branscombe of techradar.com recently wrote a terrific article outlining the new approach that Windows Server’s next edition is taking for the lessons being learned by the Azure team. Below…
Microsoft has continued to improve their Office 365 offering, and the latest update came with the inclusion of many of their MDM features being rolled into the monthly subscription. While…
