Test Layout

Like a previous post I made, this is probably relevant only when doing VDI in a test deployment that's a bit kludgy. However, in case anyone else runs into this, here's my scenario: Hyper-V Host (Windows 2012 R2) to be configured for virtual machine-based VDI One network for VMs and host (not external) with static IP and DNS One network for external with dynamic IP and DNS Domain controller is a VM on the Hyper-V host On the internal network not the external network with static IP Is the DNS server for the domain I ran the RDS installation from Server Manager and the first part was fine. The Hyper-V host reboots and then you wait for the DC to restart before logging on to the Hyper-V Host as the DC is required to complete the configuration. After logging on to the Hyper-V host the wizard continues. I got this error: RD Virtualization Host Configuration Failed on machineName.domain.com With Error: Could not create the Windows Management Instrumentation Windows Firewall except...

I was trying to track down a delivery error today and was annoyed that I couldn't use wildcards when searching the log in Tracking Log Explorer. Instead, I used the Exchange Management Shell and filtered with Where-Object to get the information I wanted: Get-MessageTrackingLog -Start "month/day/year hour:minute:second" -End "month/day/year hour:minute:second" -Resultsize Unlimited | Where-Object {$_.Recipients -like "*@domain.com"}