A new plugin is under development here inside the Squidworks garage that allows Labtech MSPs to manage Dell Appassure Backup Cores servers from a common console inside of Labtech. The new plugin leverages Appassure REST API to mine data from each core and send that data back to the Labtech database. Using the same processes the plugin is able to… Continue reading
Sending mail from network devices through Office 365
You just completed a migration to Office 365 for all your users but now you need to relay mail from network devices like copiers and scanners. You will need to setup a relay connector in Office 365 to allow these simple SMTP devices to relay mail to you or other 3rd party email addresses.
Below is the basic instructions on how… Continue reading
When users attempts to click on the “Connect” link under “Computers” in attempts to launch remote web workplace nothing seems to happens. If you issue a IISreset then the system starts working again for a short time before starting to fail again. You check your logs and find EventID 1309 Event message: An unhandled exception has occurred.
It appears that it maybe some level of memory issue in .Net 4.5 and the Remote Access web.config set… Continue reading
Had an issue where a customer started having issues setting OOF on a remote Exchange server 2007 when using Outlook 2013. After some digging arround and making sure all autodiscover settings and SSL settings were accuratlly set I stumbled across the issue where installed hotfixes were causing the problem. The culprit is a faulty set of updates recently pushed out by Microsoft. To be specific, the following hotfixes are Outlook… Continue reading
Create a Labtech Full Screen RDP Redirector
Labtech out of the box comes with a older version of RDP client that when is pushed to full screen looks really crappy. That’s not Labtech’s fault but the limitation of the RDP client they packaged with the LTClient software. One of the great things about Labtech is you can customize… Continue reading
Replay.Core.Contracts.Agents.AgentPairingFailedException: Error occurred pairing to agent at URL
Here is several possible fixes for this type of error based on state of agent systems, Each fix is based on a given type of problem. I will continue to post other fixes for this error type as I come across them.
New Agent Install on Windows DC or SBS server.
So you just installed an Appassure 5 core server… Continue reading
As an Exchange and Active Directory administrator you may be asked at some point to make a new distribution group from one or more other distribution groups. Exchange 2010 and PowerShell make this a very easy task. So to get started log in to your exchange server and open your Exchange Management Console.
Now we need… Continue reading
Microsoft DNS Server Cannot Resolve Some Domain Names Externally
DNSWalk is a small windows application that queries all ROOT servers and all returned Top Level Domain (TLD) servers for the FQDN requested. This allows you to see what is being returned to you from all root hint servers and all Top level DNS server.
Download -> DNSWalk-1.0
If you run DNSWalk on a Windows DNS server it… Continue reading
We were getting the following error after a migration to Exchange 2010 from 2003 which indicated that Exchange was still looking for the old server.
Event: Microsoft Exchange cannot find a route to the source transport server or home MTA server
The problem is during the migration the old server didn’t get pulled from Active Directory correctly so there were still settings that caused Exchange to believe that there was another MTA available… Continue reading
How to fix NCSECDESC Failures in Active Directory. If you get the following when running DCDiag on a Windows AD Server do the following to correct.
Starting test: NCSecDesc
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have
Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=ForestDnsZones,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local
Error NT AUTHORITY\ENTERPRISE DOMAIN CONTROLLERS doesn’t have
Replicating Directory Changes In Filtered Set
access rights for the naming context:
DC=DomainDnsZones,DC=MYDOMAIN,DC=local … Continue reading
