Finding password for IWAM and IUSR
One of my clients internal websites which ran their legacy CRM system failed the other day, the logon screen appeared but when trying to login and authenticate an ASP error page appeared. Now I’ve fixed this once before but I used a new script this time to help which I…
Unable to start Hyper-V server – Could not initialize
A little project I was working on was migrating SBS2003 to SBS2011 however I hit a snag in the fact that one of the clients old legacy programs (which I thought was still supported) didn’t run on SBS2011, the developers for the product had gone into administration…great. So rather than…
Cannot find the Source Server – SBS2011 Migration
Ok here's a nice little message I found while migrating from SBS2003 to SBS2011 What a pain…. It looks as though while it's trying to run through the answerfile with the migration details it can't connect to the Source Server. First thing to look at is to look at the…
Outlook 2010 Autocomplete
This is the bane of my life sometimes. Out of anything, this is what gets more attention than anything else. Not the fact I've just migrated from some old crappy servers to a nice new fast virtualized platform and everything is running three times the speed….no… it's “where have all my…
Enable Access Control List (ACL) Inheritance
During a recent migration from SBS2003 to SBS2011 I received this error: Access Control List (ACL) inheritance is blocked. This is a permission issue in Exchange whereby the permissions need to be able to propagate to the child objects. In my case, to enable this please follow these steps: You're going to…
Windows Backup with Server 2008 R2 and Multiple USB Drives
Due to the rise in data and the cost of online backup, I recently recommended a client to move to multiple USB drives, these are now both small and fast enough to get a full bare metal server backup. USB Drives are slowly taking the place of Tapes, both have their…
Outlook Send/Receive Error – 0x8004010F
Last week I came across this little beauty while moving a client over from POP3 to Exchange 2010. Sending reported error (0x8004010F) Basically what had happened is that the old POP3 account had lost the default folder where new e-mails would be delivered. Solution (for Outlook 2007 & 2010): Go…
Sharing your Calendar in Outlook 2010
Outlook 2010 makes it very easy to share your Calendar with other people, here are some simple steps to achieve this: · Open your Calendar in Outlook · On the left, right click your Calendar and then go down to Share and then Share Calendar · …
Exchange 2010 – lowercase email address policy
A client recently asked me to change their address policy so they all showed as lowercase. First you'll need to create new email address policy from the Exchange Management Console - organisation Configuration - Hub transport, click on the E-mail address Policies tab on the right. Right click on the…
Update Exchange 2003 Default Address policy to Exchange 2010
Simple little Exchange Management Shell command to update the "Default policy" to be upgraded to Exchange 2010: Open Exchange Management Shell and type: Set-EmailAddressPolicy “Default Policy” -IncludedRecipients AllRecipients This will ask you to comfirm, type Y and hit enter. Job Done, hope this helps.
Export all Email addresses to CSV file – Exchange 2010
Useful script to export all the Primary email addresses and aliases to a simple CSV file which can be read easily. This outputs the file to c:\ for example but can be changed. Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited |Select-Object DisplayName,ServerName,PrimarySmtpAddress, |Where-Object {$ -ceq “smtp”} | ForEach-Object {$}}} | Export-CSV c:\ -NoTypeInformation Hope…
Problems connecting to a Server through VPN connection
Having problems connecting to a server through a VPN connection, this is more likely an internal DNS issue, but you should be able to get around it by manually adding the Servers name and IP address to your hosts file. To add an entry in the “Hosts” file: · First…
Map network Drive using credentials
If you have a script used to map a network drive and need to use credentials for what ever reason, the network share isn't on a domain, you can use a simple script in your batch file: @echo off rem The line below will delete any existing mapping to the…
Recover deleted Public Folders using Outlook Web Access.
This will help any of you who've needed to recover or restore a Public Folder quickly because some donut has accidentally deleted it. Plus you don't have to go back to your Tape or USB Backup. The Prep Ensure you have full access to the parent folder, Owner rights will…