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OWA address book searches displaying hidden users

Bit of an odd one, if your E2k7 address books have hidden entries, and you have several address...

Date: 12/07/2009

Installing the Windows Mobile Emulator. Shortcuts dont appear on the Start Menu

I cant claim this, thanks Mike. Saved us some pain. After the install of the WM image itself of the...

Date: 11/05/2009

services not starting because they are timeing out prematurely?

most likely in a repro/vm setup where resources are the limiting factor? extend service startup...

Date: 11/05/2009

OWA not working and showing red Xs instead of the images?

it is possible for the IUSR anonymous auth account password to get out of sync between where its...

Date: 11/04/2009

E2k3 PF hierarchy or content not replicating in or out of a particular server. Using Sophos Pure Message?

We've had a couple of cases where Subject tagging in the product has caused PFs to stop moving out...

Date: 08/17/2009

OWA E2k3 stops working with 503 Service unavailable

Looking at the IIS logs this specifically is a 503 0 0 on the get verb on Exchange virtual directory...

Date: 07/31/2009

Perfmon Counters appear as numbers

Odd this one, not sure how it happened but it did. Looks like the perfc009.dat is corrupt (file that...

Date: 07/16/2009

How do OCS Address books work, and why is mine broken?

That is a very good question... A great link i eventually was able to get is at...

Date: 05/13/2009

Setting up a quick OCS 2007 test environment

Perhaps virtualised for testing? Physical HW is obviously better Two W2k3 or W2k8 boxes Configure...

Date: 05/08/2009

Windows Mobile not syncing with HTTP 500 internal server error and nextags showing problems with syncstate table

Odd one this, it seems a couple of the reasons this can be seen are down to a corrupt syncstate...

Date: 05/07/2009

OCS calling users when unlocking machine or switching from other apps

This has been brought to our attention as an intermittant issue but with more work has given a...

Date: 05/07/2009

OCS DNS record creation

SVR, A, SIP, internal, external? All of the above, some of the above? All and fingers crossed? I'm...

Date: 04/02/2009

Outlook takes a long time to mark Calendar appointments as tentative - sniffer process is slow

Interesting this, at least i found it interesting as i had no idea this goes on. Mainly as im an...

Date: 03/19/2009

Canon Printer, Email and Exchange 2007

Morning all, Quite an interesting one this... In Exchange 2003 a printer may have worked fine,...

Date: 03/09/2009

New WM emulator images! 6.1.4

Excited? I am... very looking at some internal training on the new beauty of the WM OS's You (and I)...

Date: 02/26/2009

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is not supported on this operating system...

After the 2nd install of SP2 for W2k3 and after installing all the prereqs for DPM on my W2k3 SP2 VM...

Date: 01/27/2009

OWA e2k3 "Error: Access is Denied" on a newly build cluster

Strange one this (as my posts tend to be)! Two nodes of a cluster, both newly build. Both W2k3 SP2...

Date: 01/22/2009

iPhone users can see entire Public folder hierarchy on Exchange 2003

Interesting one this, and sounds odd initially but upon some further reading is an issue that is...

Date: 12/22/2008

How to tell what policy is applying a setting on a machine...

So, you go to change a setting in a policy on a machine, but its greyed out. This is essentially...

Date: 12/12/2008

AD Replication stops after changing the motherboard of a DC

Ususally an Exchange man but currently working to expand cross platform knowledge I came accross...

Date: 12/10/2008

Powerpath 5.2 and MPIO causing NPP leak

Ive seen a couple of cases now where Non paged pool memory is leaking and causing HTTP resourses to...

Date: 12/04/2008

FSMO roles

Okay, not strictly Exchange but interesting none the less. FSMO roles (Flexible Single Maaster...

Date: 11/11/2008

test-casconnectivityuser.ps1 errors out with "The storage group you specified .... is a recovery storage group"

Okay, so this isnt going to work, however the error could perhaps be a bit more verbose as to why...

Date: 10/23/2008

Exchange 2007 create self signed certificates...

So, you are either using or are testing with self signed certificates. It seems there are a plethora...

Date: 09/15/2008

Cluster failing on the HTTP resource? Non-Paged pool memory high?

Is your cluster failing over? Is it the HTTP resource going first? This seems the first resource to...

Date: 08/12/2008

TechReady 7 experience

Last week I was lucky enough to get to go to the Microsoft Technical Readyness preperation in...

Date: 08/05/2008

Exchange 2003 OWA 404 "file or directory not found" when Colon in the subject line of a mail

Hi, This is a very odd one, what makes it more frustrating is its a tough one to narrow down when...

Date: 06/27/2008

My Exchange 2007 build number doesnt update with Rollup X...

How do I know if my application of RU has worked? Why hasnt my build number updated in...

Date: 05/30/2008

Exchange 2007 , 9874 EcProcessVirusScanQueueItem and ForeFront

We have seen a few cases where since applying SP1 for Exchange 2007 9874s have appeared in the event...

Date: 04/16/2008

Exchange 2007 CCR with Public Folder Store

I have seen a few issues along the lines of having a PF store on a CCR cluster for Exchange 2007,...

Date: 04/14/2008

Exchange 2007 12018 and 12017 Certificate errors

This can occur and a handful of these seen for a number of reasons. Some of this depending of the...

Date: 03/13/2008

Exchange 2003/2007 Windows 2003 SP2. High Non Paged Pool memory

Something we see a few of is memory and Paged and Non-Paged pool bytes running very high and causing...

Date: 03/13/2008

One user generates NDR from non-existant user when they receive a Meeting Request

This seems very strange at first. User A receives a meeting request, the sender of the meeting...

Date: 03/05/2008

Exchange 2007 external Meeting Request through MessageLabs

At the time of writing there are some known issues with sending Meeting Requests externally from...

Date: 03/03/2008

PFs not replicating to Exchange 2007 in mixed organisation

In a mixed Organisation where we have Excvhange 2000 or 2003 when content or the hierarchy isn't...

Date: 03/03/2008

Exchange 2007 - Mail queuing/backing up in Submission queue. A Transport agent problem?

So, this can happen for a variety of reasons, is it a spike and busy time? Are disks getting hit/not...

Date: 03/03/2008

Hello World

As is tradition here is my first post to my blog, basically introducing myself and the intentions of...

Date: 02/22/2008