Category Archives: Windows

Test Exchange remote connectivity

Microsoft have launch a new webpage to test Exchange remote connectivity.

It can test:

ActiveSync
Activesync autodiscover
Outlook autodiscover
Microsoft Exchange Web Services Connectivity Tests
Outlook Anywhere (RPC over HTTP)

Outbound SMTP E-Mail

https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/

A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox

Today i have a user that could get access to the exchange webmail. (OWA).

There are som solutions for this error, try to fix from bullet number 1, and down.

  1. Get-Mailbox User_Name | format-list ExchangeVersion
    if the version is below 0.1 the run this command:
    Set-Mailbox User_Name -ApplyMandatoryProperties
  2. 1. Open ADUC, and go to the properties of the user that is having problems.
    2. Click the Security tab, and then the Advanced button.
    3. Make sure the “Allow inheritable permissions from the parent to propagate to this object…” is checked.
    4. Give AD time to replicate the change and try to login in via OWA again.
  3. Restart the Information Store service.
  4. 1. Open ADUC, and go to the properties of the user that is having problems.
    2. Click the Security tab, and then the find the account SELF.
    3. Give it fuld access.
    4. Give AD time to replicate the change and try to login in via OWA again.
  5. If all this dosen’t work, disable the user in Exchange EMC, this will delete the mailbox, so remember to have a backup of the account first. Then create a new mailbox to this user, and create the user again, and restore the mailbox from your backup.

Export Exchange 2007/2010 tracking log

To export Exchange 2007/2010 tracking log to a Excel, just run this command.
get-messagetrackinglog -Start “31-08-2010 00:00:00” -End “01-09-2010 12:16:00″ -resultsize Unlimited | select-object Timestamp,ClientIp,ClientHostname,ServerIp,ServerHostname,SourceContext,ConnectorId,Source,EventId,InternalMessageId,MessageId,TotalBytes,RecipientCount,MessageSubject,Sender,ReturnPath,@{Name=”Recipients”;Expression={$_.recipients}},MessageInfo | Export-Csv
It will export all mails from 31/8-2010 to 1/9-2010, with the selected fiels.

Network Policy Server problems

I have a network policy server that din’t work. There was nothing standing in the Event viewer. I have install Wireshack and could se the packets was incoming and a reject was coming back to the Radius Client.

I was search around to see howthis error was occurring, but i could fine nothing.

I then found the program IAS Log Viewer, and its told me that is what the Connection Request Policy that was the error, as i Delete that and created a new standard one everything was working fine.

The program can be downloaded here: http://www.deepsoftware.com/iasviewer/index.html

Exchange 2007 – Ahsay restore to a recovery group

Ahsay have no support for native restore to Exchange recovery group, but here is a workaround of that problems.

First create a recovery storagegroup
new-storagegroup -LogFolderPath F:\Backup\Restore\Logs -Name ExchangeRestore -SystemFolderPath F:\Backup\Restore\Data -Recovery

Then create a empty database
new-mailboxdatabase -mailboxdatabasetorecover “Mailbox Database” -storagegroup ExchangeRestore -edbfilepath “F:\Backup\Restore\Data\Mailbox Database.edb”

Restore the Exchange 2007 database to a alternative location in ahsay. With both logfiles and the database files, restore it to “F:\Backup\Restore\Data\Mailbox Database.edb” or where you location is.

Then run repair of the restored database.
Eseutil /p “F:\Backup\Restore\Data\Mailbox Database.edb”

Then mount the database
Mount-Database -Identity ‘ExchangeRestore\Mailbox Database’

Example restore a mailbox to a Restore mailbox in the real database.
Restore-Mailbox -RSGMailbox ‘mailbox_to_restore’ -RSGDatabase ‘ExchangeRestore\Mailbox Database’ -id ‘Restore’ -TargetFolder ‘Restore’

Dismount the database
Dismount-database -Identity ‘ExchangeRestore\Mailbox Database’

Remove the database
Remove-MailboxDatabase -Identity ‘ExchangeRestore\Mailbox Database’

Remove the recovery group
Remove-StorageGroup -Identity ‘ExchangeRestore’

Vmware ESX 3.5 and Dell openmanage

First you need to install:
http://www.vmware.com/download/download.do?downloadGroup=VI-RCLI-U2

This is a vmware Remote CLI tools. Install it on a windows machine.
After you install remember to log out and the log in, else you will get some error about libxml.dll cannot be found.

Then download Dell Openmanage  to the same machine that you install Vmware Remote CLI:

http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&deviceid=2331&libid=36&releaseid=R251021&vercnt=3&formatcnt=0&SystemID=PWE_R710&servicetag=&os=LIN4&osl=en&catid=-1&dateid=-1&typeid=-1&formatid=-1&impid=-1&checkFormat=true

Put the Vmware ESX into maintaince mode.

Put tar.gz file  onto the ESX Host, and the untar the file, and then install the Dell Openmanage

tar zxfv OM_6.2.0_ManNode_A00.tar.gz
cd openmanage
sh setup.sh

Make sure that the Dell openmanage is install on the ESX.

Check if the Dell openmanage is started

/opt/dell/srvadmin/dataeng/bin/dataeng status if not then start it: /opt/dell/srvadmin/dataeng/bin/dataeng start (This commands should be run at the ESX host)

Enable SNMP in the firewall:

esxcfg-firewall -e snmpd
esxcfg-firewall –openPort 1311,tcp,in,OpenManageRequest

On the windows machine where you have install Remote CLI goto folder: C:\Programmer\VMware\VMware VI Remote CLI\bin

vicfg-snmp.pl –server <ESX Host> –username root -c appmanager -p 5567 -t 10.105.2.129/appmanager

vicfg-snmp.pl –server <ESX Host> –username root -E

If you need to test the SNMP traps you can run this command

vicfg-snmp.pl –server <ESX Host> –username root -T

Outlook crash on opening a shared calendar

I have a problems today with an Outlook that keeps crash sometimes when a user is opening a share calendar. I tested it on my test machine and when the user opening the shared calendar at my test machine my own outlook crash also.

I then try to give the user full permission to the mailbox and that resolve the issues.

The error code in the event viewer was:

Faulting application outlook.exe, version 12.0.6514.5000, stamp 4a89dc70, faulting module mso.dll, version 12.0.6425.1000, stamp 49d65443, debug? 0, fault address 0x000057ba.

This is not the best solution but is a workaround for now. It seams to be a bug in the way Exchange 2010 and Outlook 2007 is running.

See also: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/exchange2010/thread/43469ef9-2274-403c-9a15-44460540f9e4