Error when executing get-rolegroup

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PROBLEM : When I execute get-rolegroup I get the following error: The requested search root ‘forest.local/Microsoft Exchange Security Groups’ is not within the scope of this operation. C annot perform searches outside the scope ‘domain.forest.local’. + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [Get-RoleGroup], ADOperationException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : C13C766,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RbacTasks.GetRoleGroup SOLUTION : By default Exchange Management Console and Exchange … Read more

Cannot open your default e-mail folders. You must connect to microsoft exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your outlook data file (.ost)

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PROBLEM : Cannot open your default e-mail folders.  You must connect to microsoft exchange with the current profile before you can synchronize your folders with your outlook data file (.ost) SOLUTION : The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service was not starting automatically.

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