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 →
Before I upgrade a domain I usually check for problems and issues. I use the following steps to give me an idea of the status : dcdiag /v (Check DC en services) netdiag /v Check networking components netsh dhcp show server Show DHCP status repadmin /showreps Show all replication betweenRead More →
I ran into a problem with VMware converter. I got the following error : unable to create a VSS snapshot of the source volume(s). Error code: 2147754774 The following steps worked for me : Confirm that there are no errors with the following command : vssadmin list writers IRead More →
This is how you do that : Connect to the switch with the serial cable and putty. Login with the credentials recover / recover Reset the switch (power down, power on) within 30 secs Now you can re-configure your switch with all the necessary accounts like admin/manager/monitor/security You can evenRead More →
Today when troubleshooting Activesync problems with an Exchange 2007 environment I decided to delete en re-create the Exchange Activesync virtual directory. I used the following steps : get-activesyncvirtualdirectory (verify you Activesync virtual directory) remove-activesyncvirtualdirectory -identity “Microsoft-Server-Activesync (Default Web Site)” (remove the Activesync virtual directory) get-activesyncvirtualdirectory (verify the virtual directory isRead More →
I found the sollution for the following error : The solution was to specify the right DNS servers in the DNS console. Open the Microsft Exchange Management Console Select properties of the hub transport or the EDGE server. Make sure that the right DNS servers are specified byRead More →
When you encouter users having problems with Activesync, you can check out the following : Make sure the Include inheritable permissions… is checked. Read More →
A customer wants to send through the Exchange 2010 hub transport server to external emailadresses. This is how you can do this : Create a new receive connector : With the following permissions : Final important stap, use powershell to grant anonymous permissions :Read More →
Everybody has seen it one or twice. When importing exchange data using PST files that a user has both an postvak in as an inbox folder. I found a nifty tool that changes the language of the exchange mailbox to a specified language. For example : As you can seeRead More →
A customer had problems synchronizing large amount of data to an EMC CIFS share using the robocopy /mir commandline option. 2011/07/14 13:38:58 ERROR 112 (0x00000070) Creating Destination Directory \\xxxx\xxx\ There is not enough space on the disk. Waiting 30 seconds… After some troubleshooting I found that opslock, hidden sharing and CIFSRead More →