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Anonymous Exchange 2007 / 2010 Relay to External Domains through connector

May 4th, 2012 No comments

Run the following command in the EM Shell. It cant be done in the GUI

Get-ReceiveConnector "Anonymous Relay" | Add-ADPermission -User "NT AUTHORITY\ANONYMOUS LOGON" -ExtendedRights "Ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Recipient"

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IMA Service wont start

May 2nd, 2012 No comments

If you have a server where the IMA service wont start try the following command on it.

dsmaint recreatelhc

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Exchange 2010 Catalogs corrupt, EventID 123, ExchangeStoreDB

March 16th, 2012 No comments

If you see the error in the event log with an ID of 123 and source ExchangeStoreDB :-

At ’3/16/2012 11:42:51 AM’ the Microsoft Exchange Information Store Database ‘DATABASENAME’ copy on this server experienced a corrupted search catalog. Consult the event log on the server for other “ExchangeStoreDb” and “MSExchange Search Indexer” events for more specific information about the failure. Reseeding the catalog is recommended via the ‘Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy’ task.

Then you need to reseed the catalogs on the backup server.

Carry out the following steps.

1) Suspend the Database on the backup server. Right click, suspend.
2) Open Exchange Management Shell, Run the command.

Update-MailboxDatabaseCopy –Identity DATABASENAME\BACKUPSERVER –SourceServer MOUNTEDSERVER

3) This will then copy across the catalogs
4) Unsuspend it

Source : Technet

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Microsoft Exchange Build Numbers

March 14th, 2012 No comments

Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 6.5.6944
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP1 6.5.7226
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 SP2 6.5.7638
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 post-SP2 6.5.7653.33
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 post-SP2 6.5.7654.4
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 8.0.685.24 or 8.0.685.25
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP1 8.1.0240.006
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP2 8.2.0176.002
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 SP3 8.3.0083.006
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 14.00.0639.021
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP1 14.01.0218.015

List delegates in Exchange using EMC

March 8th, 2012 No comments

Run the following command in the EMC to list all mailboxes who have delegates on them.

Get-Mailbox -resultsize unlimited | Where {$_.GrantSendOnBehalfTo -ne $null} | select Name, @{Name='GrantSendOnBehalfTo';Expression={[string]::join(";", ($_.GrantSendOnBehalfTo))}} | Export-CSV C:\SendOnBehalfTo.csv -noTypeInformation

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Access 2003 Preparing to Install Message

February 3rd, 2012 No comments

If Microsoft Access 2003 keeps saying preparing to install everytime you load it just import this file into your registry.

http://cl.ly/DtZZ

Job done :)

SharePoint Config Database Log file Big

February 1st, 2012 No comments

Most of the times its located in :

C:\Windows\SYSMSI\SSEE\MSSQL.2005\MSSQL\Data

If it needs shrinking do the following :-

Backup the database using SQL Management. Connect to the instance using

\\.\pipe\MSSQL$MICROSOFT##SSEE\sql\query

as the server name.

Once backed up right click on the Database Sharepoint Config and click new query.

Execute each of the following querys in turn

BACKUP LOG [Sharepoint_Config_blahblahblah] TO DISK='D:\temp\configLogBackup.bak'
GO

BACKUP LOG [Sharepoint_Config_blahblahblah] WITH TRUNCATE_ONLY
USE [Sharepoint_Config_blahblahblah]
GO

DBCC SHRINKFILE (N'Sharepoint_Config_blahblahblah_log' , 50)
GO

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