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Exchange 2007 problem

August 22nd, 2012 No comments

Today one of our biggest customer with the biggest Exchange environment called with weird problem. Customer’s exchange environment is scalled for 60k users in future.

E-mail from outside to inside were going through. So people could receive mails from Internet. When they tried to send an e-mail following appeared:

  • When user sent e-mail from OWA, all e-mail messages stayed as Draft folder
  • When user sent e-mail from Outlook, all e-mail message were at Sent Items, but no mails were delivered

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It’s driving me crazy

August 22nd, 2012 1 comment

Today again I was pissed off from Windows Updates. I installed Windows 2008 R2 server and I started to download and install all Windows updates. I didn’t watch it, because, as always, I trusted it. But when I looked at it after couple minutes I found out following screen:

 

Internet Explorer installation under Windows Update window

Internet Explorer installation under Windows Update window

 

Windows Updates was installed IE 9.0 and window of IE 9.0 installation was under Windows Updates window. So I thought my computer is working as hard as it can and it was hiding windows from me to get some rest 🙂 When I clicked on hidden window I needed to confirm the installation:

IE 9.0 hidden confirmation window

IE 9.0 hidden confirmation window

This was not the first (but I hope it was last) time Windows Updates did it to me. 🙂

Unable to initialize the Information Store service

August 16th, 2012 No comments

One Exchange 2010 server didn’t mount databases after each reboot. When I looked to Event viewer I saw following events:

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with service-specific error %%-2137221213

The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service terminated with service-specific error %%-2137221213

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No Client Access server running Exchange 2010 or a later version were found in site…

August 14th, 2012 3 comments

One of our customer has Exchange working Exchange 2010 environment. Customer wanted to create one exchange mailbox server in other physical location. Customer would use this new mailbox server to host only archive databases. So I have installed new mailbox server in separate physical location (in separate AD site), created couple databases and configured users to use this databases as archive.

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Quickie: Reliability Monitor

August 8th, 2012 No comments

Sometimes you need to have a overview what happened on OS couple days/weeks/monts ago. Before I knew there is some utility I would look into events and look for some problem ones.

Now I know there is a utility in Windows Vista and higher which is called Reliability Monitor which records all major changes/errors on OS. You can run it from Start Menu typying “Reliabi..” and you will find:

 

Reliability Monitor

Reliability Monitor

 

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Exchange log number exceeded

August 7th, 2012 No comments

Today one of our customer called that he has all exchange 2003 databases down and he cannot mount them.

In eventlog I saw following error:

 

Event 9518 error 0xfffffddc

Event 9518 error 0xfffffddc

 

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Quickie: List encrypted files

August 7th, 2012 No comments

If you want to list all encrypted files by EFS you can use command:

cipher [PATH]

This command will list all files in PATH. Encrypted files will have “E” character in front of it:

 

List encrypted files

List encrypted files

 

This command is great to handle encrypted files. Look at cipher /? command output.

 

Problem Steps Recorder

August 7th, 2012 No comments

I found great utility builtin Windows Vista and higher. It’s called Problem Steps Recorder. It’s mentioned to use it by users to record their problems and then send recorded screens to Helpdesk/Administrator.

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Quickie: Display detailed activation and license status

August 6th, 2012 No comments

Sometimes you need to find out if your windows is activated and quickes way to do so is to run command:

slmgr /dli

This command can also do

  • /ipk <Product Key> – Install product key (replaces existing one)
  • /ato [Activation ID] – Activate Windows
  • /dli – Display license information
  • /dlv – Display detailed license information
  • /xpr – Expiration date for current license state
  • …AND MANY MORE

For full help use slmgr /?.

 

Problem with enterprise certificate distribution

July 2nd, 2012 1 comment

Once upon the time I played with enterprise certification authority at one of our customers. I’ve created new certificate for certification authority. And then problem begun.

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