Category Archives: Windows

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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Apache and multiple SSL virtual host on same IP address

In standard way, apache only supports one SSL virtual host per IP address, if you want to use different SSL Certificates file. But with mod-gnutls it is possible to have multiple Virtual host with different SSL Certificates file.

Install mod-gnutls in Debian:

apt-get install libapache2-mod-gnutls

Then you need to enable mod-gnutls

cd /etc/apache2/mods-enabled
ln -s ../mods-available/gnutls.* .

Then you need to create the gnutls cache files

touch /var/cache/apache2/gnutls_cache
chmod 700 /var/cache/apache2/gnutls_cache
chown 33.33 /var/cache/apache2/gnutls_cache

And then you need to setup the two virtualhost:

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName v1.dalbjerg.nu
DocumentRoot /var/www/v1.dalbjerg.nu
GnuTLSEnable on
GnuTLSPriorities NORMAL
GnuTLSCertificateFile /etc/apache2/v1/ssl.crt
GnuTLSKeyFile /etc/apache2/v1/ssl.key
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin [email protected]
ServerName v2.dalbjerg.nu
DocumentRoot /var/www/v2.dalbjerg.nu
GnuTLSEnable on
GnuTLSPriorities NORMAL
GnuTLSCertificateFile /etc/apache2/v2/ssl.crt
GnuTLSKeyFile /etc/apache2/v2/ssl.key
</VirtualHost>

Then you need to restart apache

apache2cl restart

If it don’t work see at /var/log/apache2/error.log to see any error is reporting there.

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Exchange 2003 – Find a email address

If you want to find witch user or public folders that have and specify e-mail address, you can search the Active Directory for it.

    • Open the Acive Directory Users and Computers Management Console
    • Right Click on the domain > Select Find
    • Select Custom Search in the Find field
    • Select the Advanced tab
    • To find the entity with the email address [email protected] for example, enter the following in the LDAP query field:
(proxyAddresses=smtp:[email protected])
  • This will list the entity containing the email address entered.
  • Wild cards can be entered within the email address (*) to return multiple matches.
  • If you want to view all the email addresses within the results list, select View > Choose Columns… and select Proxy Address – doing this in assoication with the query (proxyAddresses=smtp:*@kennethdalbjerg.dk) will give you a list of all entities within the organisation that have an email address, together with all the email addresses they have.
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Forward Inline or As Attachment by Default in Thunderbird

To change whether Mozilla Thunderbird inserts the forwarded message as an attachment or inline in the new email:

  • Select Tools | Options… (or Thunderbird | Preferences…) from the menu.
  • Go to the Composition category.
  • Make sure you’re on the General tab.
  • Choose Inline or As Attachment under Forward messages:.
  • Close the preferences window.

Windows Terminal Server and printing.

I recommend Thinprint to all Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers users.
This be curs it very simple and at the same time one of the best printing tools for terminal server i have seen.

In the 2 years we have been running Thinprint on our Terminal Server, we never have a outage that we can blame Thinprint for.

When you have install Thinprint, it is a best to disable windows printing on the Terminal server, this can be done in Terminal Services Configuration

In the Terminal Server it’s done this way:
Go into Terminal Services Configuration (Start -> Administrative Tools -> Terminal Services Configuration).
Click on connections.
Right click on RDP-TCP and chose properties.
Click the tab “Client settings”, and click on disable Windows printer mapping.

Now you have disabled the Windows Printing, and only Thinprint is now working.

Arcserve (Brightstor) Linux behind Windows Arcserve R12

We have upgraded a Arcserve (Brightstor) R11.5 to version R12. But behind this one there was install some R11.1 Linux agents. We have been told by CA Support that R12 support R11.1 linux clients. That can maybe be true, but not in our setup. We need to upgraded the R11.1 to R11.5. There is not yet a R12 Agent to Linux out there.

R11.5 can be download from CA Trials page: http://www.ca.com/trials, but remember that you need a R11.5 license.

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Terminal server og Thinprint

Har i nogen sinde oplevet problemet med at personer som skal på terminal server, gerne vil have deres printer med?
Hvis ja, så har i sikkert også oplevet problemet med at for printer driver og alt det andet til at fungere.

Vi har nu i en rum haft flere kunder som har benyttet Thinprint. Til terminal server, skal du benytte Thinprint Application server. Så selvom brugeren har 10 printer tilsluttet lokalt, ja så kommer alle 10 printer også med over på terminal serveren uden nogen former for at man skal installere printer driver og andet.

Kontakt evt. It-afdelingen A/S, som er forhandler af produktet.

Forces delete a printer in windows.

I have a problem, where I could not delete a job, and therefore couldn’t delete a printer. The Spool services were using 100% of my CPU.
You can delete the jobs manual, by doing this:

  • Browse to Start –> Run –> Type “cmd” And in the black console type: “net stop spooler” without the quotes
  • Browse to windows\system32\spool\PRINTERS\ You should see files there ending in .SPL and .SHD created around the time you tried to print – delete these files.
  • Go back to the black console, and type “net start spooler” without the quotes
  • Now to the printers and fax unit, to see if the printer queue is empty.

Everything should now be fine.

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Install SQL Express 2005 quiet and with DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0

First you need to download SQL Express 2005 setup files, there can be done from microsoft homepage.

Then when you have download the setup files, you need to extract it, it can be done by typing:
SQLEXPR.EXE -x

It then ask you a location to put the extract files.

Then you can run this

SETUP.EXE /qb ADDLOCAL=SQL_Engine,SQL_Data_Files INSTANCENAME=”dalbjerg” SECURITYMODE=SQL SAPWD=”SAPassword” DISABLENETWORKPROTOCOLS=0

This will install the database name dalbjerg, and with sa password SAPassword.