A very good article on Exchange 2010 Database Maintenance; this should clear-up a lot of misconceptions (thanks Ross).
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2011/12/14/database-maintenance-in-exchange-2010.aspx
Checking Database Free Space;
Get-MailboxDatabase MDB1 -Status | FL AvailableNewMailboxSpace
Lync 2010 for the Android device can be located here:
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.microsoft.office.lync
Once installed setup is quite straightforward, however I recommend that you visit the Lync 2010 options first.
Under options only change your username i.e domain\username all other settings should be ok as long as you installed and followed the Lync 2010 Mobility update.
On the Lync 2010 login screen; logon as you normally would with your email address and corporate password.
Hopefully all worked well and you got logged on.
Instead of me writing a series of steps; I found the following two guides exceptional;
MSUnified.Net
http://msunified.net/2011/12/12/enabling-lync-mobility/
Bibble-IT
http://www.bibble-it.com/2011/12/10/configuring-lync-mobility-part-4
Microsoft Defining Lync Mobility
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh690039.aspx
Updates are;
Download the Lync.msp x86 package.
Download the Lync.msp X64 package.
Download the LyncServerupdateInstaller.exe package.
KB; http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=2493736
Don’t forget after your server install to run the following PowerShell script;
Install-CsDatabase -Update -ConfiguredDatabases -SqlServerFqdn < EEBE.Fqdn > -DatabasePaths <RtcDyn log path>, <RtcDyn data path>
Where <EEBE.Fqdn> is you’re frontend server when running the Standard edition and the SQL server when running in Enterprise edition.
On your Exchange 2010 Server install the following clients (or later) in this order;
AvamarClient-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi
AvamarExchangeVSS-windows-x86_64-5.0.106-28.msi
Make sure that your Avamar Backup User is a member of the local Administrator account (or recommended part of the Domain Admins).
Within Avamar you should now see the following
Check the advanced options prior to backup within the Avamar Console depending if you have a DAG etc.
Just got this error when trying to update to ios5 on iPad v2.
Check the following;
On windows PC
edit c:\Windows\system32\drivers\etc\host
and put a # in front of the following
74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com
becomes
#74.208.105.171 gs.apple.com
Save and Exit.
What worked for me was my PC was no longer authorised with iTunes;
Go into iTunes, store and Authorise this Computer.
Try updating again; hopefully this helps?
My wife recently purchased the glorious Samsung Galaxy SII; setup was a breeze until I tried connecting it to Exchange.
I kept getting the username and passwords do not match even though they were correct; being lazy I thought it was something I had misconfigured so I deleted the profile and started again; same error!
Did a quick Google hoping to find a solution and found lots of people with the same error; so I started digging a bit more (which was easy because I manage our Exchange environment!)
In order for Exchange integration to work on a mobile device it uses ActiveSync which is SSL and port 443 onto the Exchange Server.
If you login to Exchange OWA; Options you should see something like this; click phone and your devices will be shown to the right.
As you can see the Samsung SII did actually connect to the Exchange Server but something happened that prevented the device from fully connecting;
What I suspect had happened was the phone did not have a pin or complex password for the Unlock screen as by default a security policy will be sent down to the phone even if the Exchange security policy is blank; the user must then accept the policy which then gets applied and the phone is accepted for ActiveSync.
In my situation this still did not work; what did work for me was removing the device from Exchange;
Select your Phone as follows;
And carefully select the X (delete) icon as shown in red below; this will not wipe or do anything to your Phone; rather its removing the device from your Exchange profile.
Once this has been removed; power off and back on your phone and complete the email process again; hopefully all should work. You should also accept the Exchange Security Policy and after a few minutes your emails should start to Sync.
I have noticed this scenario a few times with other Android devices and I suspect its either a bug or the device is not fully supporting Microsoft’s ActiveSync (which is licensed by the phone provider).
One other last tip; the username has to be domain\username don't get confused by the label of Domain: Username.
I hope this helps.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1013428
Turn off the VM
Turn On Fault Tolerance
Power Virtual Machine on
Create a virtual Switch
Add a VMKernal
Allocate IP Address
Enable Fault Tolerance Logging
Scenario; your in another country and you check your email via OWA and for some reason the language within OWA and Outlook changes?
Fix, try this:
1. Open control panel, expand "Regional and language options","Regional Option", select "English" or your chosen language.
2. [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\International] = "AcceptLanguage"="en-GB"
3. log off and log on to your machine
4. Start, Run
Outlook /resetfoldernames
Exchange 2010 and Mailbox Language
PowerShell prompt;
Set-Mailbox -Identity "Joe Blogs" -Languages "en-GB"
Language Codes
As Citizen Smith would say ‘Power to the People!’
VMware has decided to double (x2) the vRam entitlements under its new licensing rules.
Does it go far enough?
http://blogs.vmware.com/partner/2011/08/vmware-vsphere-5-licensing-and-pricing-update.html
Lync Client 2010 (64bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download
Lync Client 2010 (32bit)
kb 2571543
link Microsoft download
Lync Server 2010
kb 2493736
link Microsoft download
Lync 2010 Group Chat Server
kb 2571550
link Microsoft download
You need to give another user access to a mailbox?
Use the Manage Full Access Permission wizard to grant Full Access permissions to users or groups for a selected mailbox. You can also use this wizard to remove Full Access permissions from users or groups.
When you grant the Full Access permission to another user for a mailbox, that user will be able to log on to the mailbox and access its entire contents.
Find the mailbox in the EMC (Exchange Management Console)
Right click the mailbox and “Manage Full Access..”
Click Add and Find/Select the User/Group you want to give access to.
Click Manage and the permissions will be applied.
PowerShell is much quicker though.
Adding Permissions
Add-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_looking_access" -AccessRights Fullaccess -InheritanceType all
Removing Permissions
Remove-MailboxPermission -Identity "mailbox_you_need_access_to" -User "user_or_group_remove_access" -AccessRight FullAccess -InheritanceType All
Adding the Mailbox into Outlook
In Outlook 2007/10 Open your account Settings ..
Select your account and click Change
Choose the More Settings ..
Add the email Account that you want to access.
Click Ok, Next and Finish.
From Outlook Web App (OWA)
Right Click your name above the Inbox.
Select Open User’s Inbox ..
Enter the name of the mailbox you want to open; and click Ok.
OR
In Outlook Web App, go to Options
Manage, Another User
Find the user and Click Ok.
Microsoft have discovered an issue impacting some customers who have installed Exchange 2010 SP1 RU4 into their Exchange environment and as a result have removed SP1 RU4 from Download Center and recommend customers do not proceed with any planned deployments of SP1 RU4.
A small number of customers have reported when the Outlook client is used to move or copy a folder that subfolders and content for the moved folder are deleted.
For more information please visit.
Whats new?
ESXi 5 host / 512 virtual machines / 160 logical CPUs / 2TB of RAM
32 vCPUs / 1TB of RAM per VM
VMFS-5 64TB (Thin Provision Stun / Space Reclaim)
Image Builder (custom esxi builds)
Auto Deploy (pxe boot and image deployment)
vCenter Virtual Appliance (Linux based virtual center)
vSphere Storage Appliance (local disk presented as NFS storage)
Cloud Infrastructure
For more info please visit
http://www.vmware.com
Microsoft Share Point 2010 database increase from 200gb to 4tb; check out the Microsoft SharePoint Team blog for more information.
http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/blog/Pages/BlogPost.aspx?pID=988
Have you ever wanted to export/backup your Exchange 2010 mailboxes to a .pst file?
Make sure you have created a share and your user has access to that share; please replace databasename with your Exchange Database name and replace uncpath with your fileshare.
This command will cycle through all users in the Database and export their mailboxes to alias.pst
Open the Exchange 2010 powershell prompt and run the following command.
$Export = get-mailbox –Database "databasename" ; $Export|%{$_|New-MailboxExportRequest -FilePath "\\uncpath\$($_.alias).pst"}
How do I find my Exchange 2010 build number?
Exchange Management console:
get-exchangeserver
or
get-exchangeserver | fl
How do I find my Exchange 2010 rollup number/version?
Well that’s a different story; and one that is best described by the Exchange Guys here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/03/08/3409469.aspx
Exchange build numbers and release dates.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/158530
So, Microsoft have released SP1 for Office 2010
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2460049
If you have version/build 14.0.6023.1000 then congratulations you are using Office 2010 SP1.
If you select File/Help and
you will get the SP1 information.
Have you ever needed to give remote users access to the SCCM console? But only wanted to give them View/Read Only access?
On the SCCM Server add the user or group to the ..
then as SCCM Admin add the the user to the Security/Users
and right click user and select “User Security Rights”
start off with Add/Class
then Site/Read
you can then add read access to other classes as required.
Also check out the “Manage ConfigMgr Users Wizard”
We recently encountered an issue with Windows 7 login scripts; specifically drive mappings not being presented.
If a different user logged onto the same PC the login script processed the request and the drive gets mapped, weird eh?
Things to check;
(1) UAC enabled?
(2) The user logging in has admin rights to the PC?
Solutions to try;
(1) Temporarily disable UAC and see if the Policy/Script works
(2) Remove the user in question from the local Admin Group on PC
(3) Refer to http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937624/en-us
