Find out which Process or PID is using a particular port
Recently a customer’s phones had stopped receiving email while their email clients on the pc’s were still working fine. Time to investigate what's going on! First some simple troubleshooting, can I get to the exchange server externally using either telnet on port 25 to the companies MX record (or external…
Add Email address or Domain to Exchange Spam whitelist Powershell
Having a Quarantine mailbox which an internal user can then manage can be really useful. Mainly because they know their business better and which type of emails they should be ; However there are times when legitimate emails from the same Sender or Domain keeps getting put in quarantine for…
Exchange Mailbox not updating, Disconnected / Quarantined
I found myself looking into a particular issue with a single mailbox, even through all other users were connecting as usual and updating, for this one user Outlook was coming up as disconnected. I tried recreating the Outlook profile which had the same result. I then tried Outlook Web Access…
Removing corrupt Volume Shadow Copies VSS
Howdy all, here’s a nice little one for you and a nice little space gainer. One of my clients servers was running low on space so I checked the Shadow Copies. While are good and do have their uses, if they’re not configure correctly or cleared once in a while…
Diagnostic Logging Exchange 2013
Thanks Microsoft for removing the useful Diagnostic logging from the Exchange Management Console once in Exchange 2010. So now you need to increase the diagnostic levels through Powershell, which is fine if you know the commands and what you actually want to increase the levels of, again some (quite a…
Prevent Spoofing in Exchange 2010
Here’s a nice little one to tighten up Exchange and prevent those annoying Spoofing messages which can appear to come from your own domain name. By default the Receive connector allows anonymous connections which of course allows external domains to send you email. These also include your own Domain name.…
Word 2010 Forms not working after Microsoft update
Ok this took a while to work out. A client used a form based word document (Office/Word 2010) which they could protect from editing when sending out however over the last week they haven’t been able to edit the contents of the form fields. When enabling the “Developer” view within…
Sharepoint ISAPI Filter could not be loaded
Ok here’s one of those problems which looks like it could be a nightmare but the fix is quite simple to resolve. Sharepoint… love it or loath it, it’s going to be with us for a while and can be a very useful tool so long as you have the…