Conducted a Session on Azure Hybrid Cloud with Site to Site VPN at Microsoft Train the Trainer MeetUp at Dubai, UAE.

Windows Server 2019 Core-Exchange Server 2019 Installation Step by Step

Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 which is now available. You can download it from  Here.  In Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft has done some major changes and remove unified communication role. Exchange Server 2019 has been tuned with more performance, security and better administration with management capabilities.

Exchange Server 2019 also has the support for Windows Server Core edition installation with Windows Server 2019. We can also install Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016 Core or with Desktop experience. You can read more about features from Read More.

In this article we will walk through the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2019 Core Edition. Download PDF

Exchange Server 2019-Step by Step Installation on Windows Server 2019.

Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 which is now available. You can download it from  Here.  In Exchange Server 2019, Microsoft has done some major changes and remove unified communication role. Exchange Server 2019 has been tuned with more performance, security and better administration with management capabilities. 

Exchange Server 2019 also has the support for Windows Server Core edition installation with Windows Server 2019. We can also install Exchange Server 2019 on Windows Server 2016 Core or with Desktop experience. You can read more about features from Read More. 

In this article we will walk through the installation of Microsoft Exchange Server 2019 with Desktop Experience on Windows Server 2019. Download HowTo

Exchange Server 2019 Public Preview

Microsoft Exchange Team, pleased to announce a preview build of Exchange Server 2019 is now available. You can download it here.

We strongly believe Office 365 delivers the best and most cost-effective experience to our customers, but we understand that some customers have reasons to remain on-premises. Exchange Server 2019 is designed to deliver security, performance,

Windows Server 2019-Step by Step Installation of Domain Controller

As Microsoft has release new Windows Server 2019 with more enhanced features and security related stuff. We have preview editions available to take a look and drive it look more in depth. In this Lab we will see the installation of Windows Server

Tools for Troubleshooting IPv4 in Windows Server 2016.

This article focuses on tools that will help us to identify and resolve IP connectivity problems between hosts. Windows Server 2016 includes a number of command‑line tools that can help you diagnose network problems. These tools were commonly used in earlier Windows Server editions.

Ipconfig:- Ipconfig is a command‑line tool that displays the current TCP/IP network configuration. Additionally, you can use the ipconfig command to refresh DHCP and DNS settings. The following command‑line options for ipconfig.

Ipconfig /all:- View detailed configuration information.

Ipconfig /release:-  Release the leased configuration back to the DHCP server.

Ipconfig /Renew:-  Renew the leased configuration.

Ipconfig /displaydns:-  View the DNS resolver cache entries.

Ipconfig /flushdns:- Purge the DNS resolve cache.

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Microsoft MCT & Exchange Admins Meetup at Deira, Dubai UAE Participants

The purpose of this Meetup is to discuss MCT day to day problem and the solutions to fix them. Also discussed MCT portal registration for new MCT awareness and learning materials.

All MCT participants presented and shared his thoughts for the improvement of MCT courses, students issues, and future Microsoft technologies with Office 365 and Azure capabilities.


Event is Organized at Orient IT Services Office Dubai UAE, a Microsoft Gold Partner. 

Step by Step MS SQL 17 Installation on CentOS Linux Release 7.4

Traditionally, Microsoft SQL Server, being part of Microsoft’s back office platform, has always run on Windows operating systems. However, Microsoft has made a commitment to enable customers to choose any platform. As part of this commitment, for SQL Server 2017,

Step by Step Changing Default Windows RDP Port with Advance Firewall

The requirement was to Secure Remote Access to Server in a private cloud infrastructure, where the customer wanted to provide RDP of Microsoft Windows Server with different RDP port other than the default one which shipped with default Windows installation.

Step by Step SharePoint Administration For Anyone

A fundamental responsibility concerning site security is to manage who can access resources on your site. SharePoint enables you, as a site owner, to control

Introducing Azure Advanced Threat Protection

The recent years have witnessed a distinct and consistent escalation in cyberattacks’ scope, scale, and sophistication, impacting organizations across all verticals and locations. This escalation is manifested not only in increasing proliferation of threat-actor groups, but also in the diversity of the utilized attack Tools Techniques and Procedures (TTPs), ranging from zero-day exploits to weaponized antimalware and publicly available toolkits.

This threat landscape is driving a change in the common security paradigm, bringing security stakeholders to realize that a resourceful and determined attacker will at a certain point succeed in bypassing the traditional prevention and detection controls.

To proactively respond to these threats, there is a need for a security layer that operates following the successful bypass of these controls and is tasked with detecting the malicious activity consecutive to this bypass.

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Step by Step Domain Migration Windows 2008 to Windows 2012.

Active Directory is one of the most widely used services on enterprise networks. In addition to providing basic authentication and authorization services, Active Directory enables so many other capabilities that its popularity is no surprise.

Most of the people are still running Windows Server 2008 in the network and wants to safely migrate to Windows Server 2012 R2 edition. Windows Server 2012 R2 adds some significant new features to both Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS).

Announcing Microsoft 365 for US Government

Make no mistake: over the last few years, we’ve seen faster acceleration of government organizations moving to the cloud. So why now? This move is driven largely by the desire to bring the most up-to-date tools and capabilities to employees to meet demands for mobility and create a more modern workplace—and to ensure they are better equipped to face rising security challenges. And this desire is supported by recent legislation like the Modernizing Government.Technology Act, which creates IT modernization funds to help agencies replace aging infrastructure that poses security risks. 

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How to Connect with O365 with PowerShell

PowerShell allows you to manage your Exchange Online (office 365) settings from the command line.You can use Windows PowerShell from your loca

How to Create Fine Grained Password Policy in Server 2012

You can use fine-grained password policies to specify multiple password policies in a single domain and apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain. For example, you can apply stricter settings to privileged accounts and less strict settings to the accounts of other users. In other cases,

Step by Step Virtual Machine Creation in Azure

Azure Virtual Machines (VM) is one of several types of on-demand, scalable computing resources that Azure offers. Typically, you choose a VM when you need more control over the computing environment than the other choices offer. This article gives you information about what you should consider before you create a VM, how you create it, and how you manage it.

An Azure VM gives you the flexibility of virtualization

Types of Exchange Server Recipients.

Exchange Server recipients are any objects within the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest that have been configured with an email address. When AD DS objects are configured with an email address, they appear in the Global Address List (GAL). Exchange Server 2016 supports the following recipient types:

User mailboxes:- A mailbox that you assign to an individual user in your Exchange organization. This is the most common type of recipient in Exchange Server 2016.

Mail contacts:- Contacts that contain information about people or organizations that exist outside an Exchange Server organization and that have an external email address. Exchange Server routes all messages sent to the mail contact to this external email address. 

Mail users:- Users who have an AD DS user account but have an external email address.

Step by Step SharePoint 2016 Multi Server Installation for anyone.

SharePoint Server 2016 has been designed, developed, and tested with the Microsoft Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy, building on SharePoint Online as its core. Drawing extensively from that experience, SharePoint Server 2016 offers you new and improved, highly flexible deployment options. You can choose from a traditional on-premises deployment, a hosted service with Microsoft Office 365 sites powered by Microsoft SharePoint Online, deployment in Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), or a mix of these options with a hybrid approach, empowering you to choose how and when you take advantage of on-premises or cloud-based solutions, all without changing the user experience. Seamless integration with on-premises people experiences and taxonomy ensure a consistent experience within or beyond the firewall.

Step-by-Step 2 Node Hyper-V Replication.

Hyper v replication is use for Disaster recovery, A replica virtual machine is a complete, ready-to-run duplicate of the source virtual machine. It can be switched on and be up and running in a few moments. When this happens, HVR assumes that the source virtual machine is lost and unrecoverable. When the replica is activated it becomes the official copy of the virtual machine.

Step by Step Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Migration-Part-III

We have successfully received email from User1. Till here we have completed our Migration Lab part I, and part II we will add one additional domain controller of Windows Server 2016 Data Center Edition and also Add one Exchange Server 2016 on Windows Server 2016 in the same AD domain so that we can start our migration from Exchange 2010 SP3 to Exchange 2016.

In next lab which is Part-III, I will also do migration FSMO roles from Windows Server 2008 Active Directory Domain Controller to new Windows Server 2016 Active Directory Domain Controller so that I can later demote Windows 2008 Domain with Exchange 2010.