Archive for the ‘Exchange’ Category

SSL Certificates the cheap way

Friday, July 23rd, 2010

I needed some SSL certs for my Exchange and other servers. I wanted to buy some certificates from an commercial supplier like godaddy.com or something like that. But this is how I’ve fixed the problem.

Go to CAcert.org (https://www.cacert.org/index.php) and register/create an account.

Create an certificate request on IIS or an server you wish to create an certificate and submit this on the site.

Only one downside, the root certificate isn’t standard know. You must manually import it, read the howto here :

http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3

Thanks for macmenco for the hint!

Unable to update Mailbox SD in the DS.

Thursday, June 3rd, 2010

A customer complained about Snapmanager for Exchange (NetApp) not working. The following error was in the eventlog:

Microsoft says the following about this:

Probably so rights issues on the mailbox. On the internet I found a script that the Mailbox GUID
turnover to the user. Download this script here : MbxGUIDtoMbxName

Give the GUID and the script gives the user name.


In this case there were rights to an Outlook folder from someone who was already out of service

Problem solved : Outlook can’t make a connection with Exchange 2010 (RPC/IMAP)

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

By default Outlook 2003 doesn’t support encryption towards the Exchange server. Enable it using the mail settings or disable encryption traffic on the exchange server :

Troubleshooting Exchange 2010 Activesync

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

The last time I ran into a few problems with Activesync and Exchange 2010.

First, Activesync with Exchange 2010 doesn’t work when you have an admin account.  You get a strange error (HTTP Options not allowed). Remove your account from the domain admins group for example and it should be working fine.

Activesync still not working? One customer changed the default domain policy. The following settings are important :

 

Still not working ?

Open dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and computers). Enable the advanced option under view.

Now check out the properties of the account who is trying to sync.

Select Security / Advanced.

Enable the include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent.

Link : Exchange 2010 Certificates

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Check it out here (mirror : Configuring Exchange 2010 Certificates )

Link : mailbox move in Exchange 2010

Tuesday, February 16th, 2010

Found it here  (PDF:MailboxMoveInExchange2010)

Exchange 2007 : Disable Outlook Web Access and Activesync for multiple users

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Use the following commando to disable OWA and Activesync for everyone :

get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited| set-CASMailbox -ActiveSyncEnabled:$False -OwaEnabled:$False

You can then create an CSV to enable OWA and Activesync for specific users :

Create a CSV with one column named UserPrincipalName and below it the users defined for which it needs it be active: import-csv c:\ActiveSync.csv | foreach-object {set-CASMailbox -identity $_.UserPrincipalName -…

Classfactory error when moving mailbox to Exchange Server 2007

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010

Some mailboxes may be reported as failed in your mailbox move report, with the following error information:

Error occurred in the step: Opening source mailbox. Failed to open mailbox with error: ClassFactory cannot supply requested class, error code: -1056749262.

Check the properties of the account in Active Directory Users & Computers and you should find that the account is disabled.  Exchange will not move a mailbox for a disabled user account.  Your options here are to enable the account temporarily while you move the mailbox, or just delete the mailbox from your legacy Exchange server.

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Iphone : Cool app to add more than one Exchange account to synchronize with

Monday, January 25th, 2010

I’ve installed this cool app on my Iphone. I knew it was possibly to hack a config file to add more then one Exchange account, but this program makes it easy.

Find it on Cydia!

PFDAVADMIN error : name cannot begin with the ’0′ character

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

Microsoft recommends using the PFDAVADMIN utility from a workstation, not from the console of the Exchange server, though. If you get this message, do NOT install the v1.1 Framework on an existing Exchange 2007 server. You run the risk of resetting some of the v2.0 Framework settings and, thus, breaking Exchange Server 2007! If you want to run PFDAVADMIN from the console of an Exchange 2007 server, you need to install the v1.1 .NET Framework prior to building Exchange. Thus, the “workstation” option is much more desirable.