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“The user has insufficient access rights” error when trying to set Send as permissions on a mailbox in Exchange 2010

Daniel Davies — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:33:50 +0000

We came across an issue today when we were trying to set Send As permissions for a specific mailbox and recieved the below error on Exchange 2010.

“Error:
Active Directory operation failed on DC.domain.com. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Access is denied.
Active directory response: 00000005: SecErr: DSID-03151E07, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0

The user has insufficient access rights.”

Resolution

To resolve this we had to do the following

1, Open Active Directory Users and Computers and View advanced features

2, Find the user account for the mailbox with the issue and go to the properties of this account

3, Go to the security tab and hit advanced

4, Now check the box that says include inheritable permission and apply this setting

5, Now when you set the send as permission and all works

“Completed

Exchange Management Shell command completed:
Add-ADPermission -Identity ‘CN=User,OU=Users OU,DC=Domain=DC=com’ -User ‘DomainUser1′ -ExtendedRights ‘Send-as’

Elapsed Time: 00:00:00”

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Cert Publisher’s

richardk — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:15:16 +0000

Recently I was implementing a new PKI on a customer’s site.

They had a single forest with 6 child domains, some of the domains dated back to 2000 and so the “Cert Publisher’s” group was defined as a Global Group.
We need to add the computer account of the issuing CA’s to the Cert Publisher’s group in each child domain and so need the group to be a “domain local” group scope.
I used the following script to complete this as it is not possible to change within the gui of “Active Directory Users and Computers”

Set grp = GetObject(“LDAP://CN=Cert Publishers,CN=Users,DC=sub,DC=example,DC=com”)
grp.Put “groupType”,”-2147483640″
grp.SetInfo
grp.Put “groupType”,”-2147483644″
grp.SetInfo
Changing the DC=sub for each domain

Save the above in a .vbs file and run within an elevated command prompt.

Regards,
RichardK

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Hyper-V Toolkit

steveh — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:08:52 +0000

The following TechNet Wiki links contains a number of very useful tools for Hyper-V, some of my favourites;

Core Configurator 2.0 – makes configuring Server Core or Hyper-V Server much easier
Disk2VHD – for creating VHDs from physical disks – very useful for the new Host Profile feature in VMM 2012
Wim2VHD – in a similar vein to the above, if you have already captured your Server image to a .WIM, this tool will convert it to a VHD
nvspcrub – useful tool to remove virtual network configuration from the management partition

Many more tools can be found at the following LINK

Cheers
SteveH

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Remote Assistance Quick Connect

paulw — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:47:58 +0000

Here is a command line that can be used to connect to the users PC without having to go through setting up an invitation file and a password:

msra.exe /offerRA HOSTNAME

msra.exe /offerRA IP Address

If you get the following message:

You need to ensure that you are running the command as a user that is a member of the local group “Offer Remote Assistance Helpers”:

Cheers

Paul

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Add Email Address Aliases in Exchange 2010

Daniel Davies — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:59:31 +0000

We recently needed to add a Secondary Email address to a mailbox in Exchange 2010.

Please see the command below on how to do this (In this example the user is test@test.com and he would like the secondary email address to be test1@risual.com)

Run the below from the Exchange management shell.

Set-Mailbox test@test.com -EmailAddresses @{add="test1@test.com"}

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Issue with CRM 2011 after uninstalling x64 Version and Installing x86 Version

Daniel Davies — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:32:52 +0000

We had an issues recently on a client machine , when reinstalling a CRM 2011 client from x64 to x86.

Once we reinstalled the x86 version we were unable to run the CRM Configuration wizard and if we opened outlook the CRM add-in appeared to be there but was not functional at all.

Resolution

To fix this we did the following

1, Uninstall the CRM 2011 Client

2,Open Registry Editor

3, Delete the following key “HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareMicrosoftMSCRMClient

4, Re-install CRM Client and it all works

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A connection was abortively closed after one of the peers sent an RST packet

Daniel Davies — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:24:00 +0000

We had an issue recently trying to RDP to our newly created TMG server. We had allowed the machine we were using to connect to the server in the TMG’s Server System policy.

When running logging in TMG we could see the RDP server hitting the server but then immediately getting a closed connection with the following message “A connection was abortively closed after one of the peers sent an RST packet”

Resolution

1. First Log onto your TMG Server

2. Right-click the highlighted icon and choose “Open Network and Sharing Center”

3. If you then choose “Change Adapter Settings”

4. If you know right click the Adapter for you Internal Network named LAN and press properties and make note of the name of the adapter.

5. If we now go to START > Administrative Tools > Remote Desktop Services > Remote Desktop Host Configuration

6. You Should see a connection named RDP-Tcp if you select this and then Disable and Re-enable the connection

7. If you know right click the connection named RDP-Tcp and choose properties

8. If you then navigate to the Network Adapter tab and choose the Internal Network adapter we found out in Step 4 and choose ok

9. If you then disable and re-enable the connection again

After this all worked again even after a reboot

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Unable to remove additional mailboxes from Outlook

Jovan Davis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:54:34 +0000

After adding additional mailboxes to Outlook (Tools > Email Account > Change > More Settings > Advanced > Add), when you retrace your steps you may find that you are unable to remove the additional mailbox(es) because it isn’t listed, even though the mailbox is still visible in the main Outlook pane. When right-clicking on the mailbox and selecting “Close Mailbox – Name” you may receive the following error:

Solution:

Navigate to the following in the registry:

HKCUSoftwareMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWindows Messaging SubsystemProfilesDefault

Look through each of the folders, and delete the folder that correspond to the additional mailbox(es) causing an issue.

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Exchange 2010 Rollup 6 for Exchange 2007 SP3 Released

Daniel Davies — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 10:22:33 +0000

Just to let you know Exchange 2007 SP3 Rollup 6 has been released

You can download the rollup from http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=28751

Rollup 6 contains the following fixes (Referenced from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2608656)

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2498852 - "0×80041606" error message when you perform a prefix search by using Outlook in online mode in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2499841 - An arrow icon does not appear after you change the email message subject by using OWA in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment
2523695 – A "System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException" exception occurs when you click the "Scheduling Assistant" tab in Exchange Server 2007 OWA
2545080 - Users in a source forest cannot view the free/busy information of mailboxes in a target forest when the cross-forest Availability service is configured between two Exchange Server 2007 forests
2571391 – Applications or services that depend on the Remote Registry service may stop working in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2572010 – The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may crash after you run the Test-ExchangeSearch cmdlet in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2575360 – A new feature is available to automatically stop the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service when a time-out is detected in an Exchange Server 2007 SP3 environment
2591655 – A journaling report remains in the submission queue when an email message is delivered successfully in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2598980 – The PidLidClipEnd property of a recurring meeting request has an incorrect value in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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2617784 – Journal reports are expired or lost when the Microsoft Exchange Transport service is restarted in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2626217 – Certain changes to address lists may not be updated in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
2629790 – The Exchange IMAP4 service may stop responding on an Exchange Server 2007 Client Access server when users access mailboxes that are hosted on Exchange Server 2003 servers
2633801 – The SCOM 2007 SP1 server cannot alert certain issues in an Exchange Server 2007 organization
914533 – The Microsoft Exchange Information Store service may stop responding on an Exchange Server 2007 server
976977 – The scroll bar does not work in OWA when there are more than 22 all-day event calendar items in an Exchange Server 2007 user’s calendar
2641312 – The update tracking information option does not work in an Exchange Server 2007 environment
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System Center Advisor Released – Proactive Server Configuration Management

steveh — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 20:26:56 +0000

Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of System Center Advisor (formerly Microsoft codename ‘Atlanta’) enabling IT Professionals to proactively avoid server configuration problems by assessing static, runtime and operational data to identify potential issues that cause outages or poor performance.

System Center Operations Manager is great at alerting you to server issues as they happen, enabling you to quickly respond – but what if you could actually prevent server configuration problems before they ever impact your server’s performance or availability?