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Trouble going to external websites that match the internal domain name What: Customer has a Windows Server with a domain that matches their external website. Example: Domain = contoso.ca Public Website = contoso.ca Whenever users try to go to the public facing website they get directed to the servers internal resources such as RWW or IIS …

Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer because there is a time or date difference between your computer and the remote computer. I ran into an issue where I couldn’t RDP to a server by its name and received the following error. Remote Desktop cannot verify the identity of the remote computer …

DirSync Logon failure I initially posted about re-installing DirSync to fix the login service issue for the Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service. While that fixed it initially I found further updates and reboots still caused the service to fail to start. I even installed the new Microsoft Azure Active Directory Sync Services tool and that …

How to empty all the recycle bins at once I run into this every now and then when I’m trying to free up space on a server and other users have left lots of data in the recycle bins. This may be old news to most, but I just found it! First turn off “hide …

Where is my Deployed Printers option in GPME? I was having an issue removing old printers from a GPO. In the Group Policy Management Settings it listed a whole bunch of printers under the  Windows Settings -> Deployed Printers section. Navigating to that area in the editor that option didn’t exist. Apparently that option only shows up if …

Weird SBS RWW problem with IE11 I had a client today that wanted access from home to his work PC and since he had SBS 2008 it should have been easy since Remote Web Workplace was already installed & configured. I went into the SBS console and gave him access to his PC and made …

Windows Server 2012 Upgrade to Server 2012 R2 The chaps in my office wanted to use the new version 2 Hyper-V VM’s on one of the hosts in our rack so I took it upon myself to upgrade one of our Server 2012 hosts to R2 (non DC). After some researching it looked pretty painless …