Windows Server 2016

Since the reveal of Technical Preview 4 in November 2015, the anticipation and excitement surrounding the official release of Windows Server 2016 is growing throughout the IT world. While no firm date has been officially announced at this time, rumors abound of a General Release date at some point in Q3 2016. Spiceworks has already

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Microsoft Windows 10

Windows 10 is an operating system from Microsoft Corporation for servers, desktop PCs, laptops, tablets, phones, and other connected devices (i.e. Internet of Things). The OS was formally announced on September 30, 2014, in San Francisco with Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore and Terry Myerson on stage. It was released worldwide on July 29, 2015. Windows 10

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Rearm the Office 2013 installation

To rearm your Office installation: Verify that the user account that is performing this procedure has the following credentials: The user account that performs this procedure is a member of the Administrators group on the KMS host computer. Close all Office 2013 applications. Open a command prompt with administrative permissions. Go to %installdir%%Program Files%Microsoft OfficeOffice15.

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How to find and move the Exchange Arbitration Mailboxes

The Exchange System (Arbitration) Mailboxes, like ‘Discovery Search’ are created on the first Exchange server installed in the organization. If you need to remove a database or uninstall Exchange you will need to move the arbitration mailboxes to a different database or different server, respectively. Command to search all databases for the arbitration mailboxes: get-mailboxdatabase

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PFDAVADMIN – “Could Not Expand” Error

“Use the Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool (PFDAVAdmin) to perform various management tasks related to public folders and mailboxes. The tool checks the permissions status of each public and mailbox folder and corrects any problems found. The ability to bulk export/import the permissions and replica lists make this tool

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