This was a tough one to figure out, yet, simple to do once I did it right. I am trying to setup a lab network to do some testing with recovery and migration with older Exchange and Windows servers before we do upgrades to 2012 R2 servers. I am also […]
OALGen encountered error 80004005 while cleaning the offline address list public folders under /o=OurCompany/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Offline address book. Get-PublicFolder “\non_ipm_subtree\offline address book\/o=OurCompany/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Offline address book” -Recurse |Set-PublicFolder -Replicas “Public Folder Group\public folders” Get-PublicFolder “\non_ipm_subtree\offline address book\/o=OurCompany/cn=addrlists/cn=oabs/cn=Offline address book” -Recurse | Set-PublicFolder -ReplicationSchedule $alwaysrun Replace the relevant items with your own database paths and company […]
We have Exchange accounts in Outlook 2010 and the Global Address List would not update. One reason was due to an error on our server (address in another post), but then the default times to update are 24 ours, and that’s too long. On our internal systems, we want Cached […]
I was not able to access a newly joined Windows 7 computer on our domain from our Windows 2000 Server. I just received that error. “Cannot perform the requested operation†Sharing was setup ok, permissions and security set ok, firewall was turned off. I saw an Event ID 2017 on […]
Go to C:\windows\pchealth\helpctr\binaries. helpsvc.exe /regserver /svchost netsvcs /rainstall Run that. Now we have Help and Support available again.
This drove me nuts! Why Microsoft had to take something totally simple in Windows 2000 and make it a complicated thing is NOT beyond me! This is MS we’re talking about! Of course it’s not easy with newer versions. Took me a little bit, but here’s the commands I used […]
In Exchange 2007, you have a nice little GUI to set your FQDN on your Send Connector. (Mine is called Outbound, as shown below.) You can see my FQDN, set under the Hub Transport/Send Connectors of the Exchange Management Console. However, if you send mail out to an external address, […]
Well for the larger businesses out there, this may not be a useful tip. But for those of us that support small networks, like less than 50 or even 10 systems, utilizing shares on workstations is sometimes needed. For example, I have servers in most all of my networks, and […]
So you went to add a new address to a user account in Active Directory, and you got an error that this address already exists? Sucks huh? Especially when you don’t know where it could be? Here’s one way to track it down. On your domain root in AD Users […]
I’ve run into this a few times, thought I’d record the solution for once so I remember it. After adding a new user account, the user does not show up in Outlook’s Global Address List, but does show in All Users. (If you click “To” in a new message, for […]
When using Folder Redirection on a Windows 2003 server, the default policy is allow only ownership and permissions to the user. No admin account would have access to this folder. For example, you create a Group Policy to redirect user’s My Documents folders to a home directory on the server. […]
Recently I went to reset a user’s home directory permissions on the server to allow them full control over each file/folder in their home directory. I setup all the normal accounts and of course the actual user account, with Full Control. I then went into Advanced and selected “Replace permission […]
I found a ton of help on Google for this “Service Unavailable” issue on the OMA virtual directory for Exchange 2003. Unfortunately, this was not something readily available. Several sites will explain the proper config for all the virtual folders in IIS, which you should obviously follow, but they don’t […]
Took me a while, again, to figure this out. Thankfully not as long this second time. When you use ADModify.net to set properties on groups of objects in Active Directory, you can use variables. Home directories, in my case, is a big one. When I moved to a new server, […]
The basics of this require that we setup a second CPU to take offsite. This system would have AD loaded, GC set, DNS, and all that stuff needed to run AD separately from the network. Here’s the catch, though. We can’t run this and be current. In a disaster, it […]
Some RAID controllers are not what I call *true RAID* drive controllers. They may have a hardware controller, but they run kind of a fake RAID on the host OS. It’s not really software raid, but the RAID is dependant on the OS. This, as you might guess, causes some […]
The shortest interval to download user email with the Exchange Pop3 connector is 15 minutes. Too long for most people. To shorten that to 5 minutes, you have to update/add a registry value in this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\POP3 Connector Add Dword: “ScheduleAccelerator”=dword:00000003 Â It works by dividing the default schedule interval […]
When opening files on the network over mapped drive OR UNC, you receive a “publisher” or “security” warning before running the file. Very annoying. In IE, you add the server or domain to your “local intranet” security zone. In my case, my server was: main.domain.localIt was mapped on O: drive. […]
Gregs Uberfast version: Linux: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024openssl req -new -key CA.key -x509 -days 3650 -out CA.crtchmod 400 CA.keychmod 400 CA.crt (the above made a new CA, you want to install the crt into IE’s trusted certs.) Win: Make cert request in IIS – take to Lin. Linux: […]
Greg Fischer 6/15/07 I used Exchange 2000 on Windows 2000 for this, 2003 might be a little different. Obviously, you need to make sure you have the backups in the first place, this assumes you have done this, and we will only focus on recovery. Also, this is intended for […]