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…
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…
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…
Exchange 2013 mailbox migration stuck syncing StalledDueToCI
So I’ve just completed an Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013 mailbox migration and to be fair the majority of it went smoothly but it wasn’t without a few bumps along the way which I would like to share with you and what I did to get them resolved. First off,…
Hidden folder – Greyed out attribute
Simple little one this for some reason a clients main Data folder was Hidden, no idea why but some people were obviously complaining that they couldn’t see the folder. Looking at the folder properties the “Hidden” attribute was greyed out. Because of this we need to change it using a…
Restore Default Domain Group Policy
Ah isn’t replication fun fun fun. While overcoming a replication issue the Group Policy Objects got corrupted, fortunately there were only a few which could be created again easily but you can’t delete the “Default Domain Policy” nor the “Default Domain Controller Policy”. In order to restore these you can…
Windows Backup EFI System Partition error
While adding some additional Disks to a Windows Server Backup (SBS2008) one of the new Western Digital disks came with an EFI System Partition, which as it turned out Windows backup isn’t a fan of. Naturally I thought ok a quick format will sort that out but as you know…
JRNL_WRAP_ERROR Event 13568
Following on from my nightmare weekend of having to restore Active Directory, in doing so I had to demote one of the Domain Controllers as it was causing all sorts of Active directory errors. This also simplifies were problems are occurring rather than worrying about replication and such things. After…