One of our customers reported that the SQL Reporting Services would not start, in this case their DPM (Data Protection Manager) server, which would not allow them to run any reports. When we attempted to start the service we would receive the following error and the service would not start: In order to fix this …
Recently we came across an issue on an Exchange 2010 environment where all mails sent via OWA and Outlook 2011 (MAC) were getting received as Plain Text mails externally even though we specifically had set OWA to send in HTML. Internally Users could send HTML messages via OWA and they would get received by the …
Just to let you know Microsoft have released a hotfix to sort out an issue where users home folders were getting deleted whenever a users home folder path was change to a DFSR path within an AD user Object. For full details of the symptoms see my previous blog ‘ http://support.risualblogs.com/blog/2011/01/24/offline-files-and-group-policy-causes-home-folder-deletion/’ The Hotfix is KB977611 …
We came across an issue recently where we deployed a TMG Server into a new site and configured it to upstream all connections to an ISA 2006 box. All worked perfectly until users went to browse HTTPS and they were unable to when pointing there proxies to the new TMG Server. However if they pointed …
Just a quick script that may come in useful to you. The below Powershell script will delete IIS Log files older than 7 days that are in the “C:inetpublogsLogFilesw3svc1” directory. You can alter the script to how many days old the log files can be and also your IIS log location (Highlighted in red). get-childitem …
Recent we came across an issue where certain users in our domain could not connect to Outlook Anywhere externally when connected via Direct Access. The thing we found bizarre was that certain users could actually authenticate with exchange and another user who was practically identical couldn’t. Please note we had Kerberos constrained delegation set for …
I noticed a few posts from users searching for ways to find the serial number of their HP ProLiant servers. Below are a few ways to find this: HP System Management Homepage: HP Insight Diagnostics: HP Serial Number Check Script: http://h41111.www4.hp.com/hps/carepack/emea_middle_east/en/getserial.html
Problem At a customer site that had critical updates to install on a few of their servers. When we attempted to download the updates we found that the download status bar would get stuck and not download: We looked into the windowsupdate.log in the root of the Windows directory and found a lot of messages …
We recently encountered an issue were a Windows Server 2003 SP2 machine was running critically low on disk space on the C: drive. We deleted the temp files, dump files and cleared the Software DistributionDownload folder as stated in my colleagues post (http://support.risualblogs.com/blog/2009/10/14/running-low-on-disk-space-on-a-drive/). To free up some additional space, the C:WindowsServicePackFiles folder can be moved …
Please see the below Exchange PowerShell command. It’s a nice, quick and simple way to find out the following information about your Exchange Databases Available Whitespace Log File Path Database Path Version of Exchange When last backup of exchange occurred “Get-MailboxDatabase -status | fl Server,Name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace,edbfilepath, logfolderpath, Exchangeversion, lastfullbackup”