Category Archives: Windows

Problems moving a user from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 (Problems two)

We have some troubles moving user from one exchange 2003 to exchange 2007. We found that “Authenticated Users” was not in the user group Users, on the Exchange 2003 machine.
If the Exchange 2003 is a domain controller the Authenticated Users still need to be member of the user group.

The error we was getting was this:
XXX
Failed
Error:
Error was found for XX because: Error occurred in the step: Preparing mailbox to be moved. Failed to copy basic mailbox information with error: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service could not find the specified object., error code: -1056749241
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
‘141fc3d8-c100-46e6-b402-fc653b26afe4′ | move-mailbox -TargetDatabase ‘CN=Mailbox Database,CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=XXXX,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (XXXXX),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=XXXX,DC=net’
Elapsed Time: 00:00:10

Problems move a account from exchange 2003 to exchange 2007

I was upgrading a Exchange 2003 to a Exchange 2007, but have some troubles move some accounts to my Exchange 2007 server, it fault whitch this error:
Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed.
Elapsed time: 00:00:10

XXX
Failed

Error:
Error was found for XX because: Error occurred in the step: Preparing mailbox to be moved. Failed to copy basic mailbox information with error: The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service could not find the specified object., error code: -1056749241

Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
‘141fc3d8-c100-46e6-b402-fc653b26afe4’ | move-mailbox -TargetDatabase ‘CN=Mailbox Database,CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=XXXX,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (XXXXX),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=XXXX,DC=net’

Elapsed Time: 00:00:10

Some search on the internet and I found out that is using the address list to move a account. And that this users has been set to be hide from Exchange Address list, so removing this checkmark and now the user can be moved.

Arcserve R12 and Exchange

If you have follow my guide howto to backup exchange from Arcserve R12, but still have problems with backup the exchange server.
Try to search in global address book, in outlook if you can find the user this way, if you can’t that the problems.
In our setup we got this problem on our Hosted Exchange server, the problems was resolve with adding a user and putting it in our own global address book.

How to enable out-of-office reply messages to the Internet

By default in Microsoft Exchange Server 2003, the sending of out-of-office reply messages to the Internet is disabled. Many administrators do not allow out-of-office reply messages to be sent outside the Exchange organization to prevent unauthorized people from learning when users are out of the office.

To enable out-of-office reply messages to the Internet, follow these steps:
1. Start Exchange System Manager.
2. Double-click Global Settings, and then click Internet Message Formats.
3. In the details pane, right-click a domain name, and then click Properties. (Note By default, “*” is the SMTP domain.)
4. In the Default Properties dialog box, click Advanced, and then click to select the Allow out of office responses check box.
This allows out-of-office reply messages to be sent under this SMTP policy.

Howto add Extended Stored Procedure xp_ndo.dll (Navision 5)

From your server computer, access the Navision Installation CD-ROM. In the folder $:\SQL_ESP, where the $ is the CD-ROM drive, click the file xp_ndo.exe. When prompted, enter the path to the BINN subfolder of the SQL Server installation folder. (The unzipped xp_ndo.dll file must be in this folder on SQL Server.)

(Standard msSQL 2005 is: C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn)

Open Microsoft SQL Server management Studio Express, connect to you database server.

Navigate to SQLServer -> Databases -> System Databases -> Master -> Programmabilty

Right click on Extended Stored Procesdures, and chose ”New Extended Stored Procedures”

Chose the XP_ndo.dll files.

O3spaces, sharepoint rival

I have install O3spaces, on my servers. I have just installed the free version of the product. And I must say that iam impress about this software. In my work I have use Microsoft Sharepoint, and O3Spaces can satisfy most people. I was looking for a web interface that can control my own documents and in search on Google I found this O3spaces.

Have a look on there own homepage http://www.o3spaces.com

Howto get missing “Show desktop” icon back.

Go to Start/Run and type in “notepad”

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

Next, save the file with the name “Show Desktop.scf” in the folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch

Replace username with you username.
Then the slow desktop should be back on you Quick Launch bar next to start.

Arcserve Exchange R12 Setup (Brightstor)

Many of my hits come from search engine, and Exchange and Arcserve R12 setup, is one of the most common. So here come a little howto to setup Exchange R12, with Exchange.

Database Backup

To backup the Database, you can use the normal backup user. (Its recommended to use a administrative account).

Document Level Backup

With CA Arcserve R12 (Brightstor), premium add-on to Exchange is ended, so now there is only one agent for Exchange.
To perform a Document Level backup and restore job, the backup agent service account must meet the following criteria on the Exchange Server:
1. Account must be a domain account.
2. There must be a mailbox on the Exchange Server to which you plan to back up or restore to. This mailbox must be operational, initialized, and must have the same name as the backup agent service account.
3. Mailbox must not be hidden.
4. The first three characters of the mailbox name should be unique.
5. Account must be a member of the Administrator’s group.
6. Account must be a member of the Backup Operator’s group.
7. Account must be assigned the Exchange Full Administrator Role (Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003 only).
8. Account must be assigned the Exchange Organization Administrator Role (Exchange 2007 only).
9. Account must be assigned the Exchange Server MAPI Owner role on every public folder intend to Backup and restore because permissions for public folders can vary. If lower permission level is assigned, back up or restore may fail or duplicate items may be restored because the backup agent service account does not have the permission to delete original documents. The method that you use to assign Exchange Server MAPI Owner role varies depending on the version of Exchange in your environment:

Exchange 2000 and Exchange 2003
To assign this role, open the Exchange System Manager, right-click the public folder you want to back up or restore, and select Properties. When the Properties dialog opens, click the Permissions tab, click the Client permissions button, either add a new client with the Owner role or modify an existing client to assign the Owner role, and then click OK.

Exchange 2007
To assign this role, use the Exchange Management Shell command add – Publicfolderclientpermission to grant the user Owner access rights.

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Remote Web Workplace “page not found”

I rand into a problems with Remote Web Workplace, it’s just told me that “The page cannot be found, when I was browsing me to https://sbs/remote.

A lot of searching on the Internet browgt me to that mayby IIS not have write access to ASP.NET Temporary Files locations. So just gave Everyone write access to C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\Temporary ASP.NET Files and then it’s working again.

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