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Exchange 2010 Move all mailboxes to a new mailbox database

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PROBLEM : This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, or arbitration mailboxes. SOLUTION : The trick to seeing the Arbitration Mailboxes is to Set-AdServerSettings: Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True Run the Get-Mailbox command to see if there are any Arbitration Mailboxes : Get-Mailbox -database mbox1 -arbitration | Format-Table name,servername Name                                                      … Read more

You cannot create a new Exchange Server 2010 Mailbox database

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Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: mailbox-database1; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed. Error: The database action failed. Error: Operation failed with message: MapiExceptionNotFound: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x8004010f, ec=-2147221233) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/977960 CAUSE This issue occurs when the value of the ConfigurationDomainController parameter and the value of the PreferredGlobalCatalogparameter are different. In … Read more

“A fatal error occurred while trying to sysprep the machine” error

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This occurs when a Windows 7 system has been sysprepped three times — KB929828. To overcome this, you will need to do the following: Run the slmgr.vbs -rearm command. Try sysprep again.   Additional ressources : http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd744512%28WS.10%29.aspx http://mickitblog.blogspot.ca/2011/08/fatal-error-occurred-while-trying-to.html  

Exchange 2010 – Send on Behalf and Send As

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Send on Behalf and Send As are similar in fashion. Send on Behalf will allow a user to send as another user while showing the recipient that it was sent from a specific user on behalf of another user. What this means, is that the recipient is cognitive of who actually initiated the sending message, … Read more

Exchange 2010 load generators

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Microsoft Exchange Server Jetstress 2010 (64 bit) Simulate disk I/O load on a test server running Exchange to verify the performance and stability of your disk subsystem before putting your server into a production environment. http://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/download/details.aspx?id=4167http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff706601 Exchange Load Generator 2010 (64 bit) Exchange Load Generator is a simulation tool to measure the impact of MAPI, … Read more

Preparing Active Directory and Schema for Exchange

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Exchange 2010 Run this in the command prompt of a forest root domain server : D:\>setup /ps Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Unattended Setup Setup will continue momentarily, unless you press any key and cancel the installation. By continuing the installation process, you agree to the license terms of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. If … Read more

Windows SID needs to be changed after copying a virtual machine directory

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http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1000528 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897417.aspx   http://www.rayheffer.com/619/cloning-windows-server-2008-r2-use-sysprep-no-more-newsid/ Cloning Windows Server 2008 R2: Use Sysprep (no more NewSID) It is not uncommon for system administrators to clone virtual servers or take an image of physical servers running Windows Server 2008 these days. There are plenty of tools to do that these days (Ghost, Acronis, Platespin for P2V conversions, etc.) If … Read more