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Comment on On Premises Exchange Integration Windows Server 2012 Essentials by Wes

Wes — Wed, 22 May 2013 15:28:56 +0000

First off, Kudos! Great post.

Any luck with Exchange 2013 CU1 on a Server 2012 member server?

I have been beating my head against a wall trying to get this done. Seeing this confirms it is possible now. Your notes here will be invaluable.

Comment on SBS, Essentials, RWA and SSL by Keith M

Keith M — Wed, 22 May 2013 14:38:54 +0000

This is a little off topic, but wonder if you have ever seen the issue where I can get to the remote web access page for my server. Can access the shares fine… but when I try and connect to the computers whether the server or others on the network it fails with “This computer can’t connect to the remote computer. The two computers couldn’t connect in the amount of time allotted. Try connecting again. If the problem continues contact your network administrator or technical support.”

I have posted the issue in many places and haven’t gotten any results. Seems like others are seeing the same issues. This doesn’t work on or out of my local LAN. RDP does work on the local Lan without issues. Just not this way. Wonder if you have any ideas on troubleshooting this.

Comment on Quick Fix: AFD.sys / AFD Service is missing Windows XP by Vincent XI

Vincent XI — Wed, 22 May 2013 06:37:03 +0000

Hi, I recently run combofix on my computer…and noticed on the the log file.. it listed the file afd.sys as missing…later on..I could not connect to the internet…after alot of struggle…i did a search for the afd.sys file on drive C: and found the file quarantined by Qoobox and saved under the folder: C:\Qoobox\Quarantine\C\WINDOWS\system32\drivers and renamed to afd.sys.vir…..(Qoobox is the malware remover combofix uses..and its folder plus the combofix log file is automatically saved directly under drive C:) so i renamed the file back to afd.sys copied it and pasted it on C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers..after rebooting I successfully connected to the internet.

Comment on Lost a document, opened and saved from email by Tech Support

Tech Support — Tue, 21 May 2013 21:33:08 +0000

Bloody users. LOL.

Comment on Lost a document, opened and saved from email by Sahalu

Sahalu — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:33:24 +0000

Good job Robert and Neil.

This is definitely a good to know.
Thanks!

Comment on Lost a document, opened and saved from email by Neil Myers

Neil Myers — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:58:30 +0000

Ha Ha. Good post, Robert. Had a client do this to me last week, so still fresh in the memory. Make sure your client knows which email client they’re using. Couldn’t remote to his PC, so talked him through it over the phone. Told me he was using Word 2007 and Outlook 2007, but struggled for over nearly an hour trying to find the ‘content.outlook’ folder or registry settings. When I asked are you sure you’re using Outlook he told me, er, yes, er Outlook Windows Mail on Windows 7! Arrgh! No wonder there were no Outlook reg settings! Quickly found the relevant temp folder for Windows Mail attachments – it’s the content.ie5 folder if anyone’s interested!

Moral of the story. Ask the client which email client they use, then ask them again, then ask them again, then ask them to spell the name shown on the shortcut to the email client they use. :)

Comment on Quick Fix : Office 2011 Outlook for Mac – Wrong name shown in Sent Items.. by Aimee

Aimee — Mon, 20 May 2013 22:40:49 +0000

Thanks Jamski!!!

Comment on Quick Fix: AFD.sys / AFD Service is missing Windows XP by Marcelo

Marcelo — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:48:39 +0000

Just the exporting process seemed to have fixed my problem! Thank you so much! :))

Comment on Enable DirectAccess on Windows Server 2012 Essentials by Robert Pearman

Robert Pearman — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:49:29 +0000

What is your name resolution policy in the DA GPOs configured like?
I didnt have any of these issues when i set this up.

Comment on Enable DirectAccess on Windows Server 2012 Essentials by DanielNTX (@danielntx)

DanielNTX (@danielntx) — Thu, 16 May 2013 15:36:06 +0000

So some more troubleshooting. I’m getting connections now, but I can’t access the name of my Windows 2012 Essentials server. I can access it by going to the name \\directaccess, but not by it’s actual name, crossfire. As soon as I defined other records in DNS for the devices on my network I could access them. On my DirectAccess client, if I modify the hosts. file in \windows\system32\drivers\etc and add the IPv6 address and the server’s name I can access it. The name in DNS is defined by it’s IPv4 and IPv6 address, yet I don’t understand why I don’t get resolution to the server.