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This is a bit scary Source: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1016070 When attempting to upgrade ESX 4.0 to ESX 4.0 Update 1 (U1), you may experience these symptoms: Upgrade operation may fail or hang and can result in an incomplete installation Upon reboot, the host ...

Ohh, check it out .. Mainstream Support Retired: 14/04/2009 TODAY! http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/Default.aspx?p1=1773 As for Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2 .. Support ends 12 months after the next service pack releases or at the end of the product's support lifecycle, whichever comes first .. that is today then! So Exchange 2003 ...

Well the Exchange team blog says it all: Yes, it has been only 5 weeks since we shipped the last update roll-up on February 10 and usually our gap between roll-ups is about eight weeks. Since the release of update roll-up 6, we have fixed about 50 issues and wanted to go ahead and provide them to customers. … The release of the roll-up via ...

this is kinda interesting, migrated from a VmWare Server Proof of Concept to Hyper-V (by rebuild it from scratch).  As part of this we used System Centre Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) templates. So everything is going fine, but since the tail end of last week strange things started to happen.  Nothing was logged in any event log, but ...

I must admit, I do like having multiple monitors to work with and found this the other day which is quite cool. If you run this:mstsc /span It will multi-mon your rdp session!

I want to thank Neil for finding this. So in my lab I have a CCR cluster want just wanted to enable circular logging ... I just couldnt get it work, looks like I missed a step :-o http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb331951.aspx You can combine circular logging with continuous replication. In this configuration, you have a new type of ...

Couldn't work out why my Outlook stopped working, then i worked it out .. the damm self signed cert has expired ... (has it been a year already!) So my thanks Bharat for this: http://exchangepedia.com/blog/2008/01/exchange-server-2007-renewing-self.html but I had to add some stuff to get it work properly!!! [PS] C:\PS>Get-ExchangeCertificate ...

Yeah, yeah I know it's not supported and doesn't work out of the box, but hey just got it to work, and it was dead simple. Basically get hold of the 64bit versions of ntbackup.exe, ntmsapi.dll, and vssapi.dll from a Windows 2003 server. Now create folder on a Windows 2008 server that has the mailbox role installed and copy the files to ...

This is just for me ;-) to remind me AGAIN about these errors:  Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: MSExchange ADAccessEvent Category: Topology Event ID: 2114Description:Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=2908). Topology discovery failed, error 0x80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC). Look up the Lightweight ...

So this was kinda enlightening ... the AD boys have setup for forest for me and schema / domain prepped too. But when I went to Install Exchange I kept getting: setup /mode:install /role:mt,mb,ca,ht Welcome to Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Unattended Setup Preparing Exchange Setup The following server roles will be ...

Another silent movie ;-) of something I done a while back and wanted to share!

This is something I done a while back and wanted to share!

This is something I done a while back and wanted to share!

If you try and access OWA 2007 you may see this error   440 Login Timeout   It would appear that this error happens if the IUSR_<Servername> and / or IWAM_<Servername> accounts are disabled on the server.   Using Computer Mangement on the server, navigate to Local Users and Groups and select the disabled acount and ...

Okay so just for everyone (and for me to blow the dust off a few brain cells .. and what I understand the issue to be) .. This is a problem introduced with Exchange 2007, and affects any BES or Outlook 2003 user that is on Exchange 2007. Essentially, a users Exchange 2007 OoO is actually stored at the top of the information for a users mailbox, ...

So at last RIM confirm they have a problem! .. Rumour control has the fix scheduled for BES 5.0 ... god knows when that will hit the streets!. So esentially you when you migrate a Blackberry user to Exchange 2007 they shouldn't set an OoO from the BES device!? Source: http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/article/458/KB15155_f.SAL_Public.html ...

Thanks to Ari for this nugget ;-) The following events are visible:Event Source: Service Control ManagerEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 7000Description:The Microsoft Exchange Monitoring service failed to start due to the following error: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion.  Event ...