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In my previous post you can read how easily it is to use the EMC to administer your Office365 account. Now you can imagine how easily it could be to migrate Exchange mailboxes from your on premises Exchange Server to Office365 or the other way around! This is how you can do that : First […]
Nowadays more and more people are migrating from Exchange to Office365/Exchange Online or are using a Hybrid solution. Many people don’t know that they can use the Exchange 2010 Management Console to control their Office365 settings and users. This is how you can link your Office365 environment to the EMC. First download and install EMC, […]
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When configuring Exchange it’s important to have your external and internal url’s correctly configured. Otherwise you are running into errors like those : Configuring those url’s isn’t that difficult, you just want to make sure you configure all the URL’s and have an appopiate SSL cert. After importing the right SSL you can use a […]
Last week I was reading a ebook from my sponsor Altaro and I wanted to share this with my readers. This ebook is all about building a test environment capable of running a Hyper-V cluster. The setup has looks quite a bit like my test environment. My Hyper-V cluster is build by 2 HP […]
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Before you remove the installation of an old Exchange Server (2007/2010) you may want to make sure that there is no SMTP procotol activity anymore. (For example multi functional printers who still have the old IP adres or something like that) First enable protocol logging on the Receiver Connectors, use therefore the following command : […]
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Many times I’ve ran into the following error : (Error : unsufficient access rights to perform the operation) while moving Lync users of moving mailboxes in Exchange. This is due to the following : Include inheritable permissions MUST BE ENABLED. (Also for other tasks) When this is one or a couple of users this is […]
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Moving mailboxes from one database/server to another is fairly easy. I prefer to use the shell interface but you can also use the GUI. The following commands are handy : New-MoveRequest -Identity <mailbox> –TargetDatabase <targetdatabase> (This commands moves one specified mailbox to another database) You can also use to move mailboxes from one database to […]
This is how to move the Exchange Catalog files to a different drive : Open the exchange management shell and execute the following command
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Set-MailboxDatabase -Identity databasename -IndexEnabled $false |
Stop the Microsoft Exchange Search Indexer service You can move your old files to the new directory, in my case the files were in the following dir […]
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Today someone asked me how he could see what was the host Hyper-V server while running a virtual machine. This is how you can do that : When Hyper-V Integration Services is installed, the following registry key contains all the information you need :
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HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Virtual Machine\Guest\Parameters |
You could easily find the server where this […]
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Customers are asking me for advice for new Exchange installations and migrations. Until Microsoft releases a rollup (Exchange 2007) or new servicepack (Exchange 2010) it’s not possible to do co-existence migration from 2007/2010 to 2013. My advice is to wait or migrate to 2010. The only solution now is to export/import using a big bang […]
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While moving some mailboxes I got the following error :
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Active Directory operation failed on servername.domainname.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150BB9, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0 The user has insufficient access rights. Exchange Management Shell command attempted: ‘domainname.local/Users/User Name’ | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase ‘User Mailbox Database’ |
I found out the error was because inheritable permissions was not turned on for this specific user. (In this case this user was a member of the domain admin usergroup). This is how you can fix this problem : Open dsa.msc (make sure advanced […]
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Today I ran into this error while publishing a website using ISA Server 2006. The solution was simple. While publishing the website make sure make sure that the name at the to field is the same as the name as the external DNS name. When your ISA Server doesn’t use DNS server, make sure you […]
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Today I was testing Outlook with a new Exchange server config and I received the following error : I knew I correctly imported the new SSL certifcate because I tested OWA before Outlook and that was working fine. The solution was simple. You must specify in Exchange which Exchange services (for example SMTP, IIS, POP, […]
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Today I installed a Exchange 2010 CAS cluster using (Windows) NLB. After some final preparation I followed Microsoft best practices for creating a CAS cluster. (Microsoft recommends creating a CAS cluster also when you’re only using one CAS cluster). This is how you can do that :
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New-ClientAccessArray -Name <NameOfArray> -Fqdn <NLB Name> |
Exchange asked for your site name, you […]
When migrating to a new (version of) Exchange this is how you can synchronize the Public Folders : Start the exchange management shell and execute the following code :
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C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts> .\AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 -Server "Exchange 2007 PF server name" -TopPublicFolder "\" -ServerToAdd "Exchange 2010 PF Server Name" |
You should be able to do this using the Exchange Management Console but this often doesn’t work. After executing the above script you should be […]
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A customer of mine ran into a problem while migrating from Exchange 2007 to 2010. They didn’t receive any internal email. Here are the properties of the default receive connector : That’s the problem. Make sure you enable Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Exchange server authentication. When you enable Exchange Server authentication you have to […]
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After a default installation of TMG 2010 you might get the following error : In my case the problem was the virtual machine template was configured for the format Dutch. I changed it into English (United States) Et voila! The error disappeared. Technorati Tags: TMG […]
See below for the press release from Jeroen en Ruben about Project VRC ‘Phase V’ : PRESS RELEASE: Project VRC released new white paper about impact of antivirus on VDI Amsterdam, 17 January, 2013 – Project Virtual Reality Check (Project VRC) is pleased to announce the release of the long awaited ‘Phase V’ white paper […]
This is how you request and install (+bind) a SSL certificate for example Citrix Webinterface. Before you start you must now the external DNS name of your webinterface. In this case I use portal.company.nl Test to make sure the webserver is responding and the firewall is configured. You notice a SSL warning/error. Something like this […]
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Many times people asked me how to extend a disk or I see them running Gpart or CLI tools while it’s not necessary. For those people I decided to write this blogpost. Step 1 : Extend your disk in VMware settings Go to you vCenter server and extend the disk. Simply go to the server […]
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