Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch

Project Coconut entries: Project Coconut: Introduction Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch Project Coconut: Part 2 – Sizing the Exchange Server 2007 servers Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server Project Coconut: Part 4 – Configuring Standby Continuous Replication Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its [...]

Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback

Some time ago I wrote about my experience recovering a customer’s Active Directory from a USN Rollback condition that had been caused by some virtualisation work.  There has been some discussion in the comments in that post about what to do when you have a single domain controller that thinks it is in a USN [...]

Event ID 2095 and The USN Rollback Adventure

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There are two things I tend to see a lot of at the moment. Firstly virtualisation is pretty hot right now. Everyone seems to be virtualising their infrastructure as much as possible, particularly their servers such as Domain Controllers. Secondly, some companies are too cheap (or just haven’t gotten around to it yet) to setup [...]