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Dell T140 & Dell 403-BBVQ

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 3 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

So you bought a Dell T140 and find you have no space for drives for your operating system. Then you find out about the Dell BOSS cards and you came here to find out if it works with your Dell T140. 
Next you want to know what drives does it support. Keep on reading on to find out!

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Exchange 2013 Failed DAG File Share Witness

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 3 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

Sometimes when the file share that is hosting the witness gets taken offline the exchange server will report that the File Share Witness has failed and it will not be able to bring it back online and give back the reason "Access is Denied"
You know full well that the share permissions have been set properly, giving the Exchange Trusted Subsystem Full Access to the share and adding the same user to the local Administrator group but it still doesn't work.

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Exchange maintenance mode

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 1 min
Published: 18 February 2025

By putting your Exchange server(s) into maintenance mode you are allowing the servers to stop processing all incoming mail and drain anything that is still in the pipeline.
Why would you do this? For 2 reasons. Updates (both Windows and CU's) and to redirect all traffic to other Exchange servers in your environment.

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Configure Windows Server as NTP Server

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 4 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

I like having a centralized time source for my clients. In a Windows based domain 99.9999999% of the time you will configure your domain controller(s) as the NTP server. In other words, your time source for everything in your network/domain.

And this is how you do it...

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Migrating DHCP Server

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Category: Windows Server
Read Time: 2 mins
Published: 18 February 2025

Migrating DHCP servers is actually quite easy to do and isn't that complicated. If in a situation where you have multiple DHCP servers for failover, it doesn't take that long as you only need to migrate one server and set the rest as failover and by doing that it will automatically replicate the settings.


I'm personally a big fan of using Server Core because of it's low footprint and the amount of updates there are compared to the desktop version. So this guide will mostly involve powershell commands, but can be used with the desktop experience installed as well

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