I recently received a mail from a customer complained that the address list was filled with public folders. These had not been there before, and customer did not how they ended up there. I started to do some troubleshooting, and I can understand that users complained about the address list. There was over 3000 public […]
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Exchange 2013 – Restore mail with New-MailboxRestoreRequest
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). […]
Exchange 2013 – Invalid Provider type specified – Certificate issue
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 […]
Installing Exchange 2013 CU1 in coexistence with Exchange 2010 – All Exchange 2010 servers in the...
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 […]
Slow boot or slow login Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2
Yesterday Microsoft released a hotfix that’s a big collection of fixes for slow boot and slow login on Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. Check this article from one of the PFE’s: http://blogs.technet.com/b/askpfeplat/archive/2013/03/12/slow-boot-slow-login-sbsl-hotfix-rollup-for-windows-7-and-server-2008-r2-available-today.aspx Tested this on a computer that before the hotfix would use 20+ minutes, after applying the hotfix it now takes about […]
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 […]
TMG/ISA Kerberos Constrained Delegation (KCD) problems with IOS Devices
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]