You can easily check if you have an open relay with websites like http://www.mxtoolbox.com/, https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com and http://www.checkor.com/ When you found out that they say that you have an open relay you can double check that with the following command : Get-ReceiveConnector | Get-ADPermission | where {($_.ExtendedRights -like “*SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient*”)} | whereRead More →
A customer had a problem that a virusscanner didn’t like a executable on the desktop and therefore somehow refused access to the user’s profile. The user decided to remove his profile (all the files in c:\users\<user>) and tried to logon. The user noticed that each time a temporary profile wasRead More →
This weekend I upgraded a Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 Multi tenant environment to SP2. I received the following error : The solution was to start Exchange 2010 SP 2 in unattended mode with the following parameters : Use the Upgrade and the /hosting mode!Read More →
Today I ran into some problems while upgrading Exchange 2010 SP 1 multi tenant to SP 2. The error was “Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the TevoSource <> process has open files. After some investigating I found that the Appasure Replay agent was causing some interference. Stopping theRead More →
When you are running Citrix Provisioning Services you might run into this problem after this weekend : “The clocks on the client and server machines are skewed” As a result Group Policy Objects are not applied. This problem appear when daylight savings time goes into effect. Citrix wrote a kb articleRead More →
Today I noticed that my Blackberry server wasn’t running as it should be. After logging on to the server my application log was full of errors and warnings : For me it was quicker to restore the back-up then start troubleshooting, so I did a restore. After restoring the virtualRead More →
Today I again received a question regarding Android phones who refuse to synchronize the calendar items. (Email etc is no problem, it’s only the calendar function). I found the following solution : Go to instellingen (settings) applications toepassingen beheren Alles Agenda opslag Gegevens wissen When you synchronize again the problemRead More →
I ran into the following error : I also noticed that Microsoft Exchange Information Store would not start. I found that the ExchangeApplicationPool was stopped : (IIS Admin) I re-started the ExchangeApplicationPool and after it was running I was able to start the Information Store.Read More →
This week after changing the IP address of an Exchange 2003 server I ran into the following error : After some troubleshooting I noticed the IP subnet in Active Directory Sites and Services was not created as it should be. Therefore I created the right subnet and the error disappeared.Read More →
Today a customer complained about the SBS console not completely working. The administrator’s account received an error no “rights for exchange”. Although the user was a member of all the correct groups, the solution was simple. The domain admin account’s primary group membership was domain admins and should be domain users.Read More →