Category: Exchange 2010

error launching exchange 2010 mgmt console

Error message: The attempt to connect using HTTPS protocol “Kerberos“failed: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : WinRM cannot process the request. The following error occured while using Kerberos authentication: The network path was not found.
resolution: IIS admin service wasn’t started. Started the service and problem was resolved

Exchange 2010 server unable to join the DAG

Issue: Exchange 2010 server unable to join the DAG
Cause: IPV6 wasn’t fully disabled via registry. Also, DNS was configured for the replication NIC
Resolution: Disable DNS configuration for replication NIC so that it doesn’t register in AD DNS. Properly disable IPV6 in the registry by doing this:


Launch Regedit.exe

o Go to HKLMSystemCurrentControlSetServicesTCPIP6Parameters and Create a new DWORD value named DisabledComponents

o Edit DisabledComponents to have a Decimal Value of 4294967295

Reboot the server. When the server comes up, try adding the server to the DAG

Changing the scope so you can view the entire domain in Powershell

Issue: The requested search root ‘Domain/Microsoft Exchange SecurityGroups’ is not within the scope of this operation
. Cannot perform searches outside the scope ‘Domain Name’.
    + CategoryInfo          : NotSpecified: (0:Int32) [Get-RoleGroup], ADOperationException
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : 1A950E45,Microsoft.Exchange.Management.RbacTasks.GetRoleGroup
 
Resolution: 
for exchange 2007 = $AdminSessionADSettings.ViewEntireForest = $true
For exchange 2010 = Set-AdServerSettings -ViewEntireForest $True

Configuring Entourage 2008 Web services edition for Exchange Server 2010

Configuring Entourage 2008 Web services edition for Exchange Server 2010
System Requirements
  • Mac OS X version 10.4.9 or later (The latest version of Mac OS X, available through Software Update, is recommended.)
  • Account on Exchange server
  • Internal network connection or any access to Internet
  • Entourage 2008(web services edition) or Outlook 2011
Configuring Entourage 2008, Web services edition
  1. Launch Microsoft Entourage 2008.
  2. On the “Welcome to Entourage” screen, click Start Using Entourage without importing anything.
  3. Click the right arrow.
  4. Click the check box “My Account is on an Exchange server” and click the right arrow.
  5. In the “Password” field, type your password.
  6. Select “Save password in my Mac OS keychain” if you wish.
  7. On the “Select a Kerberos ID”, click OK.
  8. On the “Account Setup Assistant has failed” screen, clickConfigure Account Manually.
  9. On the Account Settings tab, deselect “Use Kerberos authentication“.                
11.  Click the Advanced tab.

  1. In the Exchange Server field, typehttps://mail.domain.com/ews/exchange.asmx
  2. Select “This server requires a secure connection (SSL)“.
  3. Click Ok.

unable to upgrade exchange 2007 SP1 to SP2

error message:
exchange 2007 sp2 setup previously failed while performing the action install.you cannot resume setup by performing the action buildtobuild upgrade
Resolution:
Go through the following registry keys and delete all the “Watermark” and “Action” items. The install will proceed successfully.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0AdminTools
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0ClientAccessRole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0HubTransportRole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0MailboxRole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0UnifiedMessagingRole
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftExchangev8.0ClusteredMailboxServer

preparing Active directory for Exchange 2010

Follow the steps below to prep your AD for exchange 2010. you will need enterprise admin rights to perform this.
 
From a command prompt, and using setup.com(from exch2010 cd), run as follows and in order:
 
run this, if you still have remnants of exch2003 in your organization
setup.com /PrepareLegacyExchangePermissions
 
setup.com /PrepareSchema
 
setup.com /prepareAD
 
 
setup.com /preparedomain

Working with disconnected mailboxes

Working with disconnected mailboxes
Deleted mailboxes will appear in disconnected mailbox list, but it will not reflect immediately. Typically,You have to wait for online maintenance to run and complete.

If you accidentally delete a mailbox, you will not be able to find it in Disconnected Mailbox immediately. You have to  run Clean-MailboxDatabase to get the deleted mailbox. * If it is not appearing in the disconnected mailbox view run one of the following commands from powershell
To Clean Database of Individual Store, run
Clean-MailboxDatabase servernameSGNameStore
 
To clean all databases on a specific server
Get-Mailboxdatabase | Where{ $_.Server –eq “servername”}| clean-MailboxDatabase
  
 To Clean all the database in the Organization 
Get-Mailboxdatabase | Clean-MailboxDatabase
 
To Clean all the database on a specific server
Get-Mailboxdatabase | Where{ $_.Server –eq “servername”}| clean-MailboxDatabase
 
To Clean all the Database which matches the specific name given in Databasename
Get-Mailboxdaatabase | Where{ $_.Name –eq “<DatabaseName>”}| clean-MailboxDatabase
To find Disconnected mailboxes on a particular server:
Get-MailboxStatistics -Server servername | where { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | select DisplayName,DisconnectDate
 
 
To connect a user id to a disconnected mailbox:
Connect-mailbox –database <mailbox database name> –Identity <disconnected mailbox name> –User <User to connect to>