Category Archive: Server

May 16

ActiveSync devices are not automatically redirected to after DAG failover.

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I have been working with this issue for a time now, and are waiting for a fix:) Since I have not found any threads or information on this on the web, I thought it could be helpful for others to get the information. Quick information about the Exchange environment: We go to sites with Exchange …

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Apr 30

Exchange 2013 – Restore mail with New-MailboxRestoreRequest

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I recently tested some restore operations on Exchange 2013. This is the step I did to do a “single mail” restore: Restore your  backup mailbox database and logs to alternative location. (But do not change the filename on the DB, if you do this eseutil is not able to get this in clean shutdown state). …

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Apr 08

Exchange 2013 – Invalid Provider type specified – Certificate issue

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Before I installed Exchange 2013 I issued a certificate from the internal CA server. Everything looked fine. The installation went fine without issues. But when I tried to administrate Exchange 2013 from the ECP and OWA web I got the following error: Invalid provider type specified. I also saw the details “System.Security.Cryptography…. And guessed it …

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Apr 08

Installing Exchange 2013 CU1 in coexistence with Exchange 2010 – All Exchange 2010 servers in the organization must have Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 or later installed

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When I tried to install the first Exchange 2013 CU1 server in coexistence with Exchange 2010 SP3 (yes I had updated all Exchange 2010 servers to SP3), I got the following message: All Exchange 2010 servers in the organization must have Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 or later installed. The following servers don’t meet this …

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Feb 27

Working with Certificates on multiple RDS 2012 hosts

In Windows Server 2012 all the administration and management has been moved up to the Server Manager. This means that you can configure your RDS environment from one place. This includes all certificate requirements when enabling SSO, installing RemoteApp Web Server or installing RD Gateway server. However, when you have more than one RD Host …

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Oct 16

TMG/ISA Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD) problems with IOS Devices

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This is most likely old news for many. But because I have not published this before I finally took the time to publish this as many people often contacting me regarding this issues. Nowdays specially problems With password promps on iPhone and iPads. I have worked a lot with Exchange and used ISA/TMG to publish OWA, ActiveSync …

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Oct 09

Update group membership without reboot

I often add the servers computer account to an Active Directory Group. And as we all know you have to boot in order to update this group membership. Or maybe not?? In order to update group membership without rebooting you need psexec or another method of starting a CMD as system. Start psexec –s cmd …

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Oct 04

Exchange 2013 Preview dumps .dmp files that filling up your drive

I am playing with Azure, and have installed a lab enviroment. Have been testing Exchange 2013 Preview, and I have noticed that the C: drive space was consumed up very fast. And on Azure default space is 30GB so the disk was running empty quite fast:) Since I had turned on Circular Logging, I know there …

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Sep 27

Strange DNS issue with domains like .co.uk, .cn and .br on 2008 and 2008 R2 DNS servers

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I have seen this many times, but have not taken the time to troubleshoot before nowJ I have often heard from customers that they have problems to send e-mails and web browsing to domains like .co.uk, .cn, and .br (not limited to these domains). This is usually related to DNS, and a clear cache/restart of …

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