Category: server administrator

  • Cloud Admins, AADConnect and Privilege Increase Issues

    Microsoft recommends that you stay on top of version updates to AADConnect. In version 1.1.553.0, which became available in June 2017, there is a reference to a gain in admin privileges that could be possible with password writeback (part of Azure AD Premium and EMS licences) that hints at a security issue. The following is…

  • Installing and Configuring AD RMS and Exchange Server

    Earlier this week at the Microsoft Exchange Conference (MEC 2012) I led a session titled Configuring Rights Management Server for Office 365 and Exchange On-Premises [E14.314]. This blog shows three videos covering installation, configuration and integration of RMS with Exchange 2010 and Office 365. For Exchange 2013, the steps are mostly identical. Installing AD RMS…

  • Installing Dell Open Manage 7.1 on Hyper-V R2 Servers

    This set of instructions goes through the process for installing Dell Open Manager on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows Server 2012. Download both the 6.5 and 7.1 versions of Dell Open Manage You need to install 6.5 first, or you will get errors about “omchecks has stopped working” failing during the RunPreReqChecks process and…