Useful Exchange Recovery Commands
Some useful Exchange recovery commands for when the sky has fallen, and you don’t have a working backup.
Month: June 2011
BONKERS (1) “Hixxy and Sharkey are Bonkers!”
BONKERS 1 “Hixxy and Sharkey are Bonkers!” Back in 1996 React Music released the industry standard of Hardcore compilations. Using the talents of Hixxy and Sharkey they produced an amazing mix of hard and happy dance music. Mix being the important part, the CD’s, (yes 2 of them for the price of a one album) … Read more
How to Configure Ghostcasting across/between VLANs
In this example the ghost server is on IP address 172.27.5.73/24 and is in vlan 205. The ghostcasting clients (i.e. a workstation I want to re-ghost) is in vlan 240 on IP address: 172.27.240.10. There are two DHCP servers also in vlan 205 on IP addresses 172.27.5.131 and 172.27.5.132. We want the ghostcast client in … Read more
Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Mailbox Move Fails with “Error: Property Expression Isn’t Valid
We were moving our mailbox from our old Exchange 2003 server to a new Exchange 2010 server, we moved the vast majority of people no problems, however there were about 10 or so users who we had this error with. Problem: “Property expression <blah> isn’t valid. Valid values are: …..” Now the user’s mailbox on … Read more
Viewing CHM file from a UNC path
I was viewing a CHM file from a UNC path, and was getting a “page cannot be displayed error”, this appears to be down to the CHM file being read by Internet explorer, as it thinks this is a remote site it applies the internet zone restrictions. To workaround this I copied the CHM file … Read more
Active Directory Disappearing Permissions
A odd problem with Active Directory that I came across this week; a user object keep on “losing” its permissions. When adding the “Send As” permissions for Exchange on a AD user object all seemed to go okay, then about 20 minutes or so later the permission would just vanish! After much rumaging around I … Read more
Cisco VPN Client to PIX not Passing Traffic
Tried to connect up to a pix using a Cisco VPN Client, the connection connected fine, but when I tried to VNC or RDC to something had no joy. Checking the statistics of the vpn connection on my pc it showed sending traffic but not getting anything back. This is caused by a problem with … Read more
Delays to outgoing messages from Exchange 2003 using Postfix MTA
Was getting the problem that mails were being delayed from Exchange when sending outbound via a Postfix SMTP relay. After much work to try to determine the issue, I discovered that the Postfix server was responding with 400 errors for domains that did not exist or for domains that didn’t even have MX records. I … Read more
Explainations of the Windows 4GB Limit, PAE, AWE and Large Page Support
Explainations of the Windows 4GB Limit, PAE, AWE and Large Page Support
What is ADSL?
The increasing use of the Internet is driving the use of ADSL among businesses and homes, more and more people are getting hooked up and using ADSL and the Internet in new and exciting ways, running more services and using their internet connection to links networks through VPN and running their own web servers. Getting … Read more