Removing a Corrupt Folder from a Mailbox in Exchange
Today a customer had a corrupt folder in their accounts mailbox called "Contractors and Payments" which they were unable to delete. When attempting to delete the folder in Outlook, they received the...
View ArticleError Starting WDS Service on SCCM 2012 SP1 Server
I ran into an issue where I was unable to start the WDS service on a newly installed SCCM 2012 SP1 server running on Windows Server 2012. The following errors were experienced in the application log...
View ArticleSCCM Deployment Failure 0x80070002
During a new SCCM 2012 SP1 deployment for a customer, when deploying a WIM file to a new workstation the following error was experienced:Task Sequence "Task Sequence Name" has failed with the error...
View ArticleThe security certificate presented by this website is not secure - IE10
I had a problem with Internet Explorer 10 when going to a untrusted site in my case, my local vCenter server to download vSphere, I got an error "The security certificate presented by this website is...
View ArticleExporting Drivers from Windows
I stumbled across a great application today called DriverMax - a free application which lets you export drivers from Windows based operating systems. This tool is handy when you are having difficulty...
View ArticleAutodiscover 0x800710DD
A customer of mine was having problems downloading the Offline Address Book and performing test Autodiscover attempts using "Test E-mail AutoConfiguration" through Microsoft Outlook.When attempting to...
View ArticleOffice 365 Migration Solutions for Email Services - Must Read
Despite large amounts of effort from Microsoft in online resources and education over the past year, many organisations are still having difficulty with migrating their email infrastructure to the...
View ArticleThe server holding the PDC role is down
My customer is running a single Active Directory domain with a single forest. This domain has a central site and approximately 15 remote branch sites in a hub and spoke type deployment.When running a...
View ArticleHow to Change your Network Profile in Server 2012
Network Profiles were first introduced as part of Windows Firewall with Advanced Features in Vista/2008 to allow administrators to configure different firewall profiles based upon what network a user...
View ArticleCannot manage Active Directory Certificate Services
On a new Windows Server 2012 R2 server after installing the Active Directory Certificate Authority role, you may experience the following error when first launching the Certificate Authority MMC...
View ArticleSecure Email, The Next Generation Today
The following post is a guest post by Andy Campbell.Secure Email, The Next Generation TodayOut With the Old In With the NewIf you exchange data regularly with colleagues, business partners and clients,...
View Articlec870-advipservicesk9-mz.124-24.T8.bin Virtual Machine Performance Issues
I have a Cisco 877 DSL router running the c870-advipservicesk9-mz.124-24.T8.bin IOS flash image. This works great for all physical hosts on the network however not so great with virtual machines....
View ArticleASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Wireless Problems
I recently purchased a ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Wireless to replace an under performing all in one router/modem/wireless hotspot provided by Bigpond Internet here in Australia. The ASUS RT-N66U was...
View ArticleRouting Group Connectors - There is currently no route to the mailbox database
When performing an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration, mail flowing between the two servers using a routing group connector was not working. When relaying an email to the Exchange 2010 server...
View ArticleWebsense Appliance - Internal Error - Server Connection Terminated
When setting up a Websense V5000 G2 appliance 7.8.1, in Gateway Manager I enabled integrated Windows Authentication, joined the appliance to the domain then enabled SOCKS. After making these changes,...
View ArticleRouting Group Connector - The mailbox recipient does not have a mailbox database
If you are a regular follower of my blog, you will have noticed I have been writing about different problems you may experience whilst in co-existence between Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2010 using...
View ArticleEnterprise Certificate Authority Pushing Old Certificates through Active...
A new public key infrastructure was deployed on Windows Server 2012 R2 consisting of two certificate authorities. For security reasons and to adhere to Microsoft best practice, we deployed a new stand...
View Article80090328 - The received certificate has expired
In this post I am going to show you how to resolve the below error in Exchange 2003 System Manager when attempting to browse the public folder certificate store.The received certificate has expired.ID...
View Article80090328 - The token supplied to the function is invalid
In this post I am going to show you how to resolve the below error in Exchange 2003 System Manager when attempting to browse the public folder certificate store.The token supplied to the function is...
View ArticleExchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Failing
When attempting to perform mailbox moves between Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 the following error was experienced.Mailbox NameFailedError:Mailbox database 'b70397e5-c347-4f7b-8a15-575172b89820' is...
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