Problem The domain controllers in your environment are either Windows Server 2008 R1 or R2 and you’re trying to mark an object or subtree as authoritative so that they will be replicated to the other
I had to deploy a Lync Server 2010 Enterprise Pool about a month ago and while I thought it would take just a few hours to complete, it ended up taking a good day and
I received a call the other day from an ex-colleague who had some issues with publishing a new Lync Server 2010 Standard Edition Server topology. The first screen I saw as soon as I got
I was a bit surprised when I ran into the error Prerequisite installation failed: SqlExpressRtc when running the Preparing single Standard Edition Server step during a Standard Edition Lync Server 2010 install when I figured
Before I begin writing about this problem, understand that this problem can be caused by many reasons and the reason written in this post is only one of them. Problem You’ve completed going through the
It’s been a while since I’ve come across an OCS 2007 R1 environment but as I start off a new project at a client’s office today, I realized that they were still on R1. As
As mentioned in one of my earlier posts, I’ve been performing some tests with Active Directory restores to provide myself with a refresh of the procedure as I haven’t done it for awhile and just
As I prepare to plan for a infrastructure upgrade for a client, I decided to build a small lab environment to do some tests with directory services restoration as it’s been years since I’ve had
I ran into an interesting error that I’ve never seen before through the many times I’ve upgrade an Active Directory’s forest functional level where I would receive a: The functional level could not be raised.
One of the new features of Microsoft Lync Server 2010 is that enterprise pool deployments adds a local instance of SQL Server Express to each front-end server and edge servers named RTCLOCAL so they become
