A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
This weekend I got a call from one of my friends. They were pulling their hair out, trying to remove a default database from a lab Exchange installation, and they kept receiving the error “The mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plains, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes…”. But, looking in […]
So, recently, I was proceeding with an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration. And, one of the steps I needed to take was to edit the receive connectors to allow a new network printer to send unauthenticated SMTP emails. Any time you edit the receive connectors, you need to restart the hub services. Normally, I just […]
I was attempting to uninstall Exchange 2003, which is the last step needed after installing a new version of Exchange and migrating existing users to the new email server. I call this last step “decommissioning the old Exchange server”. Anyway, before you can uninstall Exchange 2003, you must delete all the data including the public […]
Quite often printers are setup to use SMTP to email scanned documents to end users. During an Exchange upgrade, re-configuring the printers to utilize the new Exchange information is not an insignificant task because it often requires physically visiting each printer and inputting the new server’s IP address. Additionally, to avoid SMTP anonymous relays, SMTP […]
During an upgrade of Exchange 2003 or 2007 to Exchange 2010, one of the tasks to be complete is the update of user, groups, contacts, and public folder objects. If you have not updated these objects, you will get warning messages every time you use the 2010 Exchange Management Console (EMC) to edit these objects. […]
I was working at a customer site who had recently upgraded from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. When I went to edit one of their policies, I received an error message via the Exchange Management Console (EMC). Based upon this error, I realized that the policies had not been upgraded. Here is the step-by-step how […]
I was trying to update the offline address book using the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and received an error which said: Action Update found not be performed on object Default Offline Address List. Failed to generate the content of the offline address book… two possible reasons for the failure are that the System Attendant Service […]
So, I have installed Blackberry Enterprise Server (BES) 5.03 from scratch several times. This week, I installed BES 5.04 for the first time. I am not sure if my installation error was the result of something specific to the Windows 2008R2 server, or if it’s a difference between BES 5.03 and 5.04. But, in any […]
I get a lot of emails every day. Some of these emails are informational automated emails, which I want as reference, but don’t want cluttering up my inbox. This blog discusses how to define Outlook rules so that these emails automatically move from the inbox to their designated folder. The screen shots are from Outlook […]
Many Exchange mailboxes migrate without errors. Some have a few errors during migration, but if you investigate the move logs, you find that many times these errors are associated with calendar items. And, realistically, most users don’t care if they lose a corrupt calendar item from five years ago. But, occasionally, you enter a user […]