SQL SBSMonitoring High Disk Usage
Ok so I’ve done my fair share of SBS migrations in my time and there’s one thing which has been bugging me for a while and that was the massively high disk usage that comes with the SQL SBSMONITORING instance on SBS2008 and SBS2011. It eats up disk usage like…
Exchange OWA Blank Page
Well what a fun weekend I’ve had! After a nice Journal Wrap error on two Domain Controllers, Active Directory and DNS got completely corrupted (or screwed up as the professional term goes). Anyway to cut a long story short, I managed to resolve the AD and DNS issues and got…
Add disks to Windows Server Backup
Ok so following on from setting up Windows Server Backup with multiple Disks Now, on this occasion for what ever reason I didn’t get all the disks added, needed to include another one into the backup but wasn’t onsite and to top things off the previous disk wasn’t available, if…
Windows Server Backup to multiple disks
After a mammoth task of going through various customers backups I’ve concluded that the Windows Server Backup included in Windows Server 2008 onwards is actually pretty good. Ok so it’s a little limited in features but if you’re looking for a complete backup of your server then this tends to…
Mapi session exceeded the maximum of 500 objects
I got a call the other day saying that a particular mailbox was having some strange problems, disconnecting etc, however I knew that this was particularly large (25Gb) and is also shared. Jumping into good old ‘eventvwr’ I saw and saw this error dotted about: Error: MSExchangeIS EventID 9646: Mapi…
Exchange 2010 self signed certificate
How to Use a Self Signed Certificate in Exchange 2010It seems to be certificate month here at the moment. I’ve had to setup a self signed certificate for a company so they can connect via SSL to both Outlook Web Access and Exchange 2010 using Outlook (2007/2010)Something you should be…
Large IIS log files
Here’s a nice little tip to shrink or keep control of your IIS log files. While looking at a space issue on a server recently I noticed that their W3SVC3 (this might be different W3SVC1) log files were about 4-5Gb in size and contained thousands of log files. In order…
Set Exchange 2007 / 2010 Memory limit
I don’t know if you’ve noticed but Exchange 2007 and 2010 use as much memory as is available in your server, I’m not sure about you but I don’t like that. Microsoft “say” that it’s dynamic and that Exchange will share and give back memory to any service or program…
Not enough server storage is available to process this command
Bloomin Backups! The bane of my life, all I want to do is copy data from point A to point B! Simple, he says. Anyway rant ; This was a strange error I was receiving on an Exchange backup job which had been working for ages, suddenly I’m now getting…
Unable to export to pfx
Normally a simple task of installing a certificate for IIS and Exchange 2010, however on this occasion once I’d imported the crt file into the Certificate mmc, I couldn’t then export it as a pfx certificate which Exchange 2010 requires for it to be ; As you can see all…
SQL Server 2008 R2 update error
A client was having some backup issues which related to backing up some of the SQL databases, this turned out to be a permissions error which has supposedly been fixed in the latest patch, so off I go to download it from Microsoft and installed it. However this resulted in…
APC Shutdown script
Having to shutdown multiple Servers from APC in the case of a power failure used to be a lot easier, you used to be able to simply install the agent onto any of the other servers you had and then from the single APC admin console add the servers, APC…
GFI MailEssentials Log limit
While configuring GFI Mail Essentials for a client I soon realised that there is a 40,000 email limit in the historical logs. While I’m sure this has been set for performance reasons I happen to be using a beast of a server and so looked into increasing this. The main…
SpecOps Gpupdate DependencySource error
Here’s a useful little tool for you administrators out there, SpecOps GPupdate, a handy utility which adds extensions when right clicking on objects within Active Directory. Normally when I install this there are a few perquisites that need to be installed and no other issues. However on this occasion when…
User_Feed_Synchronization Task Corrupted
So today I was doing a test system restore for which I’ve created a few scheduled tasks for. As soon as I opened the Task Scheduler I receive this nice error and find that they haven’t been running as they should! oh ;“User_Feed_Synchronization-{F8C0E1F9-4AEA-B54A-882848717549}: The task image is corrupt or has…
Task Scheduler Result Codes
A useful little list of the Task Scheduler result codes so you can translate them:0 or 0x0: The operation completed successfully. 1 or 0x1: Incorrect function called or unknown function called. 2 or 0x2: File not found. 10 or 0xa: The environment is incorrect. 0x41300: Task is ready to run…