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A couple of days ago I mentioned this article about VSS Backups. Here you can find the second part. I especially like the part what options are avaibale when there’s no VSS writer available (LInux hosts?!). Currently I’m writing a review of Altaro Hyper-V back-up and I shall this include in the review also. […]
I ran into a problem while granting one or more permissions on a mailbox :
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The object 'domain.domain/Microsoft Exchange Hosted Organizations/HostedORG/User′ must be within the read scope before and after.. |
Because it’s an Exchange 2010 SP2 multi tenant hosted environment there is no management console, so I figured out how to fix this using powershell in combination with an Multi tenant environment. Start the Exchange 2010 management shell with the […]
Today my new servers arrived. The HP Microserver N40L. Yes, only 8 Gb max memory each but enough for my test environment. (My production environment is running on other servers) Like mentioned my other VM’s are running on different servers but they are so important now that I can’t use them anymore to test stuff […]
Currently I’m working on a big post compairing several back-up solutions. I found this article from Altaro interesting and contains several interesting points of view. For example inconsistent backups, yes the backup succeeded but when it takes serval hours for a backup to complete many file could be inconsistent. Do you still have a backup […]
This is how you can easily redirect users from webmail.company.com to webmail.company.com/owa. Without the solution : Copy this file to the inetpub\wwwroot and rename it to default.htm Now al users will automatically be redirected to /owa […]
Ofcourse you also now the telnet commands to test a smtp server. But what when you know someone who doesn’t ? I found this nifty little program on the internet : Just fill in the appropriate data and hit send. Fill in the server configuration you want to use or test Mirror here […]
Today a co-worker found the solution of not able to login into Office 365′ sharepoint. The solution was simple but effective : Open IE9, –> tools –> Security –> Trusted Sites –> Sites. Add the following sites : https://*.sharepoint.com” https://*.microsoftonline.com”>https://*.microsoftonline.com Thanks Bob! 🙂 […]
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On this site https://www.digicert.com/easy-csr/exchange2010.htm you can easily create a powershell command for a Exchange 2010 certifcate request (CSR). Just fill in the appropriate names and the powershell command will be created. For the command name I always use the name of the Exchange receive connector. Maybe you have a good alternative or script to create […]
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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 :
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Get-ReceiveConnector | Get-ADPermission | where {($_.ExtendedRights -like “*SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient*”)} | where {$_.User -like ‘*anonymous*’} | ft identity,user,extendedrights |
Then use the following command to close the anonymous relay :
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Get-ReceiveConnector “YourReceiveConnectorName” | Remove-ADPermission -User “NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON” -ExtendedRights “ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient” |
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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 was created. The solution was as […]
This is how you reset the root password. Reboot your filer. Hit control-c to boot into the boot menu. Choose 3, change password. Enter the new password and reboot. […]
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! […]
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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 the service (and killing the proces […]
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Follow the following steps to setup a PPP connection with Windows 7 : Open control panel, and search for Phone and Modem (or use the Dutch equiv. etc) Go to Modems, add modem Select don’t detect my modem Select the Communications cable between two computers Go to network and sharing centre and […]
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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 article about it : http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX123336 I […]
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A customer had different DNS (windows) names then VM names (the names that you see in vCenter) and wanted to change them. Here is how you can easily do that : Choose to migrate (storage vmotion) the server to a different datastore. (This can be local or shared storage) When the files are […]
Yesterday I posted an article how to install VMware vShield App. Here is some basic information about configuring it : First here are the virtual machine (hardware) settings about the VM : As you can see above, 3 Gb of memory and 1 CPU. You will need such a VM one every VMware server you […]
I’ve installed several versions of vShield, but now I decided to write a how-to on how to install VMware vShield App. First of all, download the OVF-image on the VMware website : It’s approx. 850 mb to download. Then use the import OVF appliance option to import the image to your VMware server. Follow […]
I’ve been working some time with Veeam Backup & Replication and I’m very pleased about it. At last I found some time to upgrade my V5 to V6… it took about 2 minutes Hereby the steps for the upgrade : Notice that Veeam already sees the previous installation. Hit Yes to upgrade. It’s very […]
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 virtual machine I noticed there where […]
