I’ve had a Western Digital WD DX 4000 8TB model for quite a few years now, and it’s doing great duty storing offsite backups from my home here in my office. However this week I had one of the 2TB drives fail with clicking and grinding. No issues, the WD is in RAID5 therefore my data is protected. The challenge however is that WD only tested specific drives with the Sentinel … [Read more...]
SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 and MS16-072–The Solution
After posting earlier this week about MS16-072, I’ve done quite a bit of investigation and sought advice from fellow MVPs (Jeremy Moskowitz and Darren Mar-Elia) who focus on Group Policy. Jeremy has a good post here that he’s done a lot more explanation on this change. With respect specifically to SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 however, I’ve found that we can run Jeremy’s script but … [Read more...]
Group Policy not working on SBS 2008, SBS 2011 and Windows Server 2008/2008R2 since MS16-072
Further to the blog post I put up yesterday, I’ve now done additional testing and found that the script referenced in the article here is not quite right. Also – I’ve found that there is some specific problems with this on SBS 2011 and likely SBS 2008 as well. Firstly, the script – It turns out there are different PowerShell commands for GP Permissions in 2008/2008R2 vs … [Read more...]
Microsoft Update MS16-072 breaks Group Policy Application in some environments
Microsoft last week released security update bulletin MS 16-072. This upgrade seeks to improve security with Group Policy implementations, however due to the way it works, it actually can break the application of GPO in certain environments. Environments such as SBS 2003 R2, SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 are subject to this problem. The result would be that if … [Read more...]
Blank Outlook Emails since KB3055012 Update
Today whilst working with one of our clients, I was investigating an issue where their customer service team were sending emails out based on Outlook HTML templates they had been using and the end client was receiving them as blank emails. Initially we suspected it was linked to an email migration also going on at the same time as I was moving them from Exchange 2010 to … [Read more...]