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Convert-MSOLDomainToFederated: Service not available
22 May 13 10:27 AM

AAAAAAH…. this is not a typical reaction I have when setting up things, but this one was driving me nuts. Let me explain… Story so far… I was asked to help a company with the implementation of Single Sign-on (SSO) between their on-premises environment Read More...

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No, my Win-X menu doesn’t work
07 May 13 03:58 PM

With the installation of Windows 8 there comes an end to the ‘classic’ start menu era. Off course you can put all the programs you want on the start screen. However, things like the control panel, command prompt or the computer management snap-in might Read More...

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Filed under: Winx, Windows 8

DirTeam bloggers at TechEd Europe 2013
11 April 13 10:26 AM

From Monday June 24 2013 to Friday June 28 2013, Microsoft organizes TechEd Europe at the Feria Internacional de Madrid (IFEMA ) in Madrid, Spain. With a much warmer climate than Amsterdam (TechEd Europe 2012) and Berling (TechEd Europe 2009 and TechEd Read More...

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Filed under: Windows, TechEd, Marriot, Teched Europe

Backing up a Threat Management Gateway using Backup Exec
26 July 12 12:31 PM

Everyone can have some trouble using Backup Exec to backup their Threat Management Gateway 2010 . TMG uses a different range of dynamic ports from the standard Windows Server installations. Since Windows Vista the new default start port is 49152. The Read More...

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Filed under: R2, Server, 2008, Windows, TMG, Dynamic, Port, Backup Exec, Threat Management Gateway

TMG Compression broke my site
08 February 12 03:04 PM

Microsoft Threat Management Gateway ( TMG ) should make publishing websites easy. Generally it is. We had a configuration as shown below: This should work like a charm. Unfortunately it did not in Internet Explorer 9. Upon testing the published site we Read More...

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Filed under: R2, Server, 2008, Windows, SendAcceptEncodingHeader, Forefront, chaching, TMG, Sharepoint, chache, compression

How not to create redundancy in your Exchange
08 September 11 10:23 AM

When I was at a client the other day I encountered the following: As you can see the Exchange environment in itself already contains a single point of failure. Namely the Exchange-01 server who solemnly functions as a client access and transport hub. Read More...

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Filed under: database, Server, 2008, Windows, esx, vmware, failover, Exchange 2007, Exchange, cluster

Upgrading SQL
06 July 11 04:51 PM

When upgrading your environment to squeaky clean Windows Server 2008 R2 installations sooner or later you will have to tackle the SQL server. Migrating a Microsoft SQL server from 2005 to, say, 2008 R2 should be a walk in the park. It should be, if no Read More...

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Filed under: R2, database, Migration, SQL, Server, 2008, SQL Server, Windows