Monthly Archives: January 2020

013020 2324 FixedSSDJou1 240x180 - Fixed SSD Journal Disks Lost Communication Issues at Storage Space Direct Server

Fixed SSD Journal Disks Lost Communication Issues at Storage Space Direct Server

was doing daily checking for servers as usual. There are two SSD drives happen lost communication at Storage Space Direct Server, this is not good, because those two SSD drives are the cache of Storage Space Direct.

013020 0247 Troubleshoo1 240x180 - Troubleshooting Tips: Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error)

Troubleshooting Tips: Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error)

oday, a customer told me that one of users cannot success to sync emails at his phone, I tried to use Microsoft Remote Connectivity Analyzer to test Exchange ActiveSync Connectivity, it has no issues with Exchange ActiveSync Autodiscover but not Exchange ActiveSync, it failed to attempt the FolderSync command on the Exchange ActiveSync session and error message is “Exchange ActiveSync returned an HTTP 500 response (Internal Server Error).”.

012720 1833 HowtoConfig8 240x180 - How to Configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment

How to Configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment

Today, I am going to show you how to configure Server Certificate Auto-enrollment via Group Policy, you need to have an Enterprise certification authority root server before you configure auto-enrollment, if you don’t know how to install Enterprise certification authority root server, you can follow my previously post and step by step to install it.

012420 2117 HowtoDeploy31 240x180 - How to Deploy an Enterprise Certification Authority Root Server on Microsoft Server 2019

How to Deploy an Enterprise Certification Authority Root Server on Microsoft Server 2019

If you need certificates for your internal websites, applications, wireless network or pilot lab test, having an internal enterprise authority server is a good choice. Today, I am going to show you how to deploy an Enterprise Authority root server on Microsoft Windows server 2019. This is the simple way to have a certificate service for Internal and easy to maintain but it maybe not a good best practice, if you need the certificate service is deployed securely, you need to consider deploying Two-Tier (or more) PKI Hierarchy (at least a Root CA server and a subordinate server), I will show you how to deploy them for future post.

012320 1948 FIXEDAccess1 240x180 - FIXED Access is Denied Error for upgrading VBO 365 Default Backup Repository

FIXED Access is Denied Error for upgrading VBO 365 Default Backup Repository

I was trying to upgrade VBO 365 from V3 to V4, everything looks fine except upgrading Default Backup Repository, the status shows Upgrade failed “Access is denied”, it has never happed with other customers for upgrading VBO 365 from V3 to V4.

012120 1907 Troubleshoo1 240x137 - Troubleshooting Tips – Fixed Windows Server 2019 cannot run Hyper-V cmdlets against Windows Server 2012 R2

Troubleshooting Tips – Fixed Windows Server 2019 cannot run Hyper-V cmdlets against Windows Server 2012 R2

If you tried to run Hyper-V PowerShell script at Windows Server 2019 to get Hyper-V report from Windows Server 2012 R2 Hyper-V host, you will get the error message “The Hyper-V module used in this Windows PowerShell session cannot be used for remote management of the server ‘XXX”. Load a compatible version of the Hyper-V module……..”

011520 2311 HowtoUpgrad28 240x180 - How to Upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 to V4

How to Upgrade Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 to V4

Veeam released Veeam Backup for Microsoft Office 365 V3 on November 26 2019, there are lots of function be increased and improved, including Object storage support, Increased Information security, Faster backup performance, Exclude retention for contacts and calendars, Group-based targeting, Enhanced reporting…etc.

011420 0051 HowtouseSen23 240x180 - How to use SendGrid as SMTP Relay at Sophos UTM firewall

How to use SendGrid as SMTP Relay at Sophos UTM firewall

Today, I am going to show you how to use SendGrid as SMTP relay at Sophos UTM firewall and help you send email out successful, the Sophos UTM firewall and exchange servers are VMs of Nested Hyper-V host at Azure, if you don’t know how to build a Nested Hyper-V host in Azure, you can reference our Building Real Word lab in Azure Volume 1 book from https://leanpub.com/buildingrealworldlabsinazurevolume1) , this is step by step to tell you how to build your own lab in Azure.

011320 2302 HowtoSendEm3 240x180 - How to Send Email from Exchange Server VM with Azure

How to Send Email from Exchange Server VM with Azure

When you try to send email out from exchange server VM at Azure, you will notice it will failed send email out. Because starting on November 15, 2017, outbound email messages that are sent directly to external domains (such as outlook.com and gmail.com) from a virtual machine (VM) are made available only to certain subscription types in Microsoft Azure. Outbound SMTP connections that use TCP port 25 were blocked. (Port 25 is primarily used for unauthenticated email delivery.), so you will notice the exchange server VM won’t send email out after you configure send connector.

011320 1948 Howtocreate4 240x180 - How to create a Free SendGrid Account at Azure

How to create a Free SendGrid Account at Azure

As we know, starting on November 15, 2017, outbound email messages that are sent directly to external domains (such as outlook.com and gmail.com) from a virtual machine (VM) are made available only to certain subscription types in Microsoft Azure. Outbound SMTP connections that use TCP port 25 were blocked. (Port 25 is primarily used for unauthenticated email delivery.), so you will notice the VM at Azure won’t send out email.

011220 2342 Troubleshoo1 240x120 - Troubleshooting Tips : Fixed failed to publish blog after enable SSL certificate at Blog site issues

Troubleshooting Tips : Fixed failed to publish blog after enable SSL certificate at Blog site issues

Today, I try to publish blog via Microsoft word as usual, but it failed and show a warning message “Word cannot publish the pictures in this post. The most likely cause of this problem is that you do not have enough storage space. Contact your provider and try again, or choose a different picture provider”, this so weird and I am sure I didn’t change any settings at my blog site except enable SSL. I figure out the issues after do some research and test.

011320 0111 Howtoenable10 240x180 - How to enable SSL certificate at website of Azure

How to enable SSL certificate at website of Azure

There are some reasons why your website should invariably have a SSL certificate, e.g. SSL certificates help to ensure your website security, website visitors will see it as a trustworthy Brand, also it will enhance the search engine ranking for your website. Today, I am going to show you how to enable SSL certificate at the website of Azure, let follow the step by step to complete it and make your website better at azure.

011220 0236 Troubleshoo2 240x180 - Troubleshooting Tips – How to delete Read-Only Storage Pool

Troubleshooting Tips – How to delete Read-Only Storage Pool

Today, one of my clients told me their storage pool ran out of space, he removed 4 x 1TB old drives to install the new 4 x 3.8 TB drives, and then asked me to reconfigure storage pool for him, it looks very easy to change it.
Unfortunately, I tried to remove virtual disks via server management UI, it pops up an error message “Error deleting virtual disk: The storage pool could not complete the operation because its configuration is read-only. Activity ID: {89fe92dc-c713-0017-f082-fe8913c7d501}.