View what Public Folder Database your Mailbox Databases are pointing to in Exchange 2010

Daniel Davies — Fri, 18 May 2012 16:31:58 +0000

Here is a quick simple command you can run to view what Public Folder Database your Mailbox Databases are pointing to in Exchange 2010.

Get-MailboxDatabase | Sort-Object PublicFolderDatabase | Ft Name, PublicFolderDatabase

This will give you an output like below

Name                                              PublicFolderDatabase
—-                                                        ——————–
DB1                                                    01-PF
DB2                                                   01-PF
DB3                                                   02-PF
DB4                                                   02-PF
DB5                                                   03-PF

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Direct Access Manage Out not working

Ashley Moore — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:48:54 +0000

Quite a few weeks ago now I came across this issue on a customer site and managed to resolve narrowing it down to group policy and finding the troublesome policy to be the setting for "Access this computer from the network". On Monday of this week Microsoft released a KB article detailing this problem (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2663354) but thought it was worth blogging as i did come across it a few weeks ago (promise!)

Basically when you modify this particular group policy setting it changes the local policy on the machine. Manage out capabilities in Direct Access require the internal source user and computer account to authenticate IPsec connections to the DA client. This particular policy setting controls what accounts have access to system services on the DA computer. If the source computer account does not have this access then IPsec authentication will fail. The default setting for this is the only supported one currently for DA, by default this includes – Administrators, Backup Operators, Everyone, Users

Hope this helps others resolve a peculiar difficult to determine issue!

Ash

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Cumulative Update 6 for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 has been released

Daniel Davies — Thu, 17 May 2012 11:07:00 +0000

Cumulative Update 6 has been released for System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2, this CU fixes the below issues.

“Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following issues:

RMS promotion fails if NetworkName and PrincipalNames are not in sync for agents.
UI is limited to only 100 MB for the Memory Usage field in the wizard.
Additional OIDs in auth certificate are not processed correctly.
AEM creates duplicate computer objects in OpsMgr based on Agents NetBIOS name.
Cannot open reporting pane on OpsMgr 2007 R2 remote console.
Cannot view schedule for scheduled report.
ManagementServerConfigTool with the option "promoterms" fails because it stops polling the SDK Service.
OpsMgr reports are failing on Windows 7 with the error: "Cannot initialize report."
ACS events have "n/a" as their category in the ACS database.
Watch agentless monitoring listener to detect failure to respond.
SCOM SDK memory leak on cryptography keys and cryptography contexts.
After you click Edit Schedule, a message box appears, and you cannot save the change value.
Audit events can be lost when the AdtServer process crashes.

Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 resolves the following cross-platform issues:

The installation process for the IBM AIX 6.1 agent incorrectly checks for AIX 5.3 packages.
After a system restart, the OpsMgr agent for Solaris may start to run before local file systems are mounted.
On Red Hat Linux version 4 and SUSE Linux version 9, LVM disks are not discovered and cannot be monitored.
The OpsMgr agent for AIX does not report the arguments for monitored processes.
When Microsoft security update MS12-006 is installed on an OpsMgr management server, that management server can no longer communicate with the OpsMgr agent on any Linux or UNIX server.
On HP-UX, OpsMgr cannot discover and monitor a logical volume that is composed of more than 127 physical volumes.

Cumulative Update 6 for Operations Manager 2007 R2 adds the following cross-platform features:

Support for IBM AIX 7.1 (POWER).
Support for Oracle Solaris 11 (x86 and SPARC).”

You can download the Cumulative update from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29850

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Changing Shortcut name of App-V Application

steveh — Wed, 16 May 2012 13:08:57 +0000

Hi There,

If you have an App-V application published via an App-V Management Server and subsequently want to change the name of the shortcut (be it published to desktop, start menu or elsewhere)… you’ll notice that making a change in either the App-V Management Console, or directly in the OSD file has no effect. You find yourself having to re-import the application which is poor if it’s in production!

The way to do this is hidden away in the application properties. Simply navigate to the properties of the application, hit the shortcut tab and select ‘Advanced’. From here select your shortcut and choose Edit, then you will be able to change the name. Refresh the App-V client and it should be updated.

This is fairly simple but has eluded me for a while and meant i’ve been re-importing applications when i’ve wanted to change the name. This way is much faster.

Thanks,
Steve

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Voice Mail Preview is not being displayed with English (en-GB) Language Pack

Jovan Davis — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:54:57 +0000

If you are based in the UK and run Exchange 2010 UM it is likely that you will install and use the English (en-GB) Language Pack with your UM Dial Plan.

You may then notice that Voice Mail Previews are not being displayed in Outlook or OWA.

Be aware that Voicemail Preview is only available with the following UM Language Packs:

English (US) (en-US)
English (Canada) (en-CA)
French (France) (fr-FR)
Italian (it-IT)
Polish (pl-PL)
Portuguese (Portugal) (pt-PT)
Spanish (Spain) (es-ES)

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff629381.aspx

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The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) isn’t running on any exchange server in the site.. In Exchange 2010

Jovan Davis — Tue, 15 May 2012 16:48:01 +0000

If you have installed the Exchange Management Console on your client machine or server other than your Exchange 2010 servers you may come across the error below:

Solution

If you update your Exchange Servers to Service Pack 1/2, ensure you do the same on the machine running the Management Console.

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Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012

steveh — Tue, 08 May 2012 20:58:49 +0000

Hi There, Update Rollup 1 has been released for System Center 2012. This update addresses a number of issues with VMM, App Controller and OpsMgr See HERE Thanks SteveH Related posts:System Center 2012 Official Release #mms2012 We can finally talk/blog about it…. System Center 2012 release... System Center 2012 RTM on MSDN All the [...] Related posts:

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Disable Mailbox Database Failover in Exchange 2010

Jovan Davis — Fri, 04 May 2012 16:10:53 +0000

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Set a Lagged Mailbox Database Copy in Exchange 2010

Daniel Davies — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:37:09 +0000

Here is a quick simple command you can run to set a lagged copy time on a Database copy when it already exists.

The below command will set the lag copy for 7 days behind (The maximum you can increase this to is 14 Days)

Set-MailboxDatabaseCopy –Identity DatabaseNameMailboxservername -ReplayLagTime 07.00:00:00

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“An unexpected error has occurred..” when trying to IRM protect content with RMS Administrative Template

Ashley Moore — Fri, 04 May 2012 14:22:12 +0000

I recently had this problem on a customer site, documents could be protected using RMS with manual permissions no problems, bootstrapping process completed and all was fine. However after creating Administrative Templates and attempted to apply protection using those templates it failed with the useful “An unexpected error has occurred..” message. Hmmm head scratcher…

So troubleshooting I made sure i had applied permissions correctly on the template, not that i should receive an error message like the one i was getting but good place to start. Checked access to the template file share, fine. Checked AD RMS server was exporting the templates correctly, fine but I did notice something else in checking this ..

I opened one of the templates in an XML editor and noticed that the licensing cluster URL contained a :443, then checking in the AD RMS console this was the case in the licensing URL there too. The trouble with this is that the CLC certificates are attempted to be matched with the RAC’s using the RMS URL, if they are different (certification has no :443 and licensing has :443) you hit an error.

To resolve this issue follow these steps (Note: While following these steps you will remove the SCP temporarily, users will not be able to protect or consume new content during this period so be careful!):

1.) Open the ADRMS console and Right Click on the Server name, and go to Properties.

2.) Go to the ‘SCP’ tab and remove the SCP.

3.) Go to the Cluster URLs tab, and check the box for ‘Extranet URLs’ (If you have Extranet URL’s configured then ensure the :443 is not present and move on)

4.) Enter anything into both boxes and click Apply.

5.) Uncheck the ‘Extranet URLs’ box, and hit Apply, then OK.

6.) Close the ADRMS Console and re-open it.

7.) Right Click on the server name>Properties>SCP Tab, and register the SCP.

8.)Check your RMS settings now and make sure that no :443 exists in any of the cluster URLs.

9.) Go to Regedit and create this key on each cluster in the server

HKLM/Software/Microsoft/DRMS

Reg_Sz:GICURL
Value: https://adrms.yourdomain.com/_wmcs/certification/certification.asmx

11.) Go to an Administrative command prompt and run IISRESET on each server in the cluster

12.) Go to client PC and delete the %localappdata%MicrosoftDRM folder.

13.) In the ADRMS console right click the Administrative Template and select “Archive this Rights Policy Template”

14.) Select Manage Archived Rights Policy Templates and Right click the template and select Copy, give it a different name

15.)Right click the copy and select “Distribute this Rights Policy Template”

Once these steps are completed you should be able to go back into your application and apply protection using the Administrative Template! Yay!

HTH

Ash

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