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 ; 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…