Installing WordPress on Windows Server 2012

Note: Article updated to reflect changes as of February 2016 Installing WordPress on Windows Servers have been a challenge for me in the past. Mostly because of my ignorance to […]

Understanding Push Notifications for Lync 2013 Mobility

With release of Lync 2013, Cummulative Update in February 2013, Microsoft enabled Lync 2013 deployments to serve mobile users. Release of mobile clients for Windows Phone 8, Apple iPhone/iPad and […]

Error: 0x800f0906 Adding GUI features on Windows Server 2012 Core

I have always preferred to have least amount of overhead possible when running Server workloads. For the same reason my Hyper-V lab infrastructure is configured to run Windows Server 2012 […]

VAMT unable to connect to wmi service on remote machine

If you are Microsoft’s volume license customer or an MSDN subscriber, the question of tracking usage of your volume license activation may have surfaced. You may already know what Volume […]

CreateCluster() failed with 0x5 adding members to DAG in Exchange 2013

UPDATE: While TechNet article “Create a Database Availability Group” only mentions Windows 2008 R2 domain controllers, I must thank Scott Schnoll for the following clarification: “Creating an Exchange 2013 DAG […]

Exchange 2013 Setup – Client Access server role readiness check fails

When installing Exchange 2013 servers in complex lab scenario, I decided to separate Mailbox and Client Access server roles to dedicated servers running Windows Server 2012. I installed Mailbox server […]

Outlook must be online or connected…

Testing Exchange 2013 means careful planning of what you are going to test in lab, what you need to test al given scenarios and what is required. One of my […]

MVP Webinar: Load Balancing Lync 2010 & 2013 in the Real World

UPDATE: KEMP Technologies has posted video recording of webinar which can be accessed here: http://www.kemptechnologies.com/KEMP-lync-modality-webinar/ Slide Deck is available here:KEMP Lync Webinar Kemp Technologies is hosting a complimentary webinar on […]

Lync Server Control Panel 401.1 Unauthorized

I was working away in my lab and had recently configured Enterprise Edition pool with first server in the pool running Lync Control Panel. I launched Lync Control Panel to […]

Test-CsGroupIm operation has timed out

Yet another one of those interesting discoveries that took most of my afternoon to figure out. What I was trying this time was synthetic test cmdlets available to test different […]