Performing the actual migration is often a moment to cross your fingers … and of course you will receive some errors when you start moving the first mailboxes. Error: Insuff_Access_rights Luckely, this one can pretty easy be fixed. Solution: Follow the following steps: Open your Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snapin. Go to the View menu and activate Advanced Features …
Read More »Find your devices on a Cisco switched network
A quick note about finding your devices wich are connected to one of your cisco switches. I always start on the main switch (core) to find the device. Commands used: ping show arp show cdp-neighbours show cdp-neighbours detail show mac address-table Solution: First we have to ping the device to get an arp entry. #ping 192.168.0.1 Type escape sequence to …
Read More »Exchange Server 2010 export all mailboxes with powershell
This is a follow up post to my existing post about exporting mailboxes to pst with powershell. As requested i modified the script a bit to export all mailboxes to pst files with a single script. Just fill in the variables need wich are in the first lines of the script. $mailserver = "<servername>" $path = "\\<servername>" $userlist = get-mailboxdatabase …
Read More »Exchange 2010 SP2 setup/upgrade failed because roles aren’t current: AdminToolsRole
After fixing my previous error (setup/upgrade failed while performing action install) it looked like i was successfully upgrading my Exchange 2010 server to SP2, but unfortunaly i received the following error when updating the Mailbox Role. Error: This server role can’t be installed because the following roles aren’t current: AdminToolsRole When i checked the registry i noticed a different ConfiguredVersion …
Read More »Exchange 2010 SP2 setup/upgrade failed while performing action install
Today i ran into a very weird problem during the installation upgrade of an Exchange 2010 server. The server has all roles on one server ( CAS/HUB/MBX ) and cleany installed just one day ago, SP1 and Rollup 8. After downloading SP2 and performing the setup i was suprised with an error screen: Solution: Check your registry keys to see …
Read More »Remove the Network link from Windows Explorer
By default can browse the network with the network icon in Windows Exlorer. If for some reason you don’t want this, make this change. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your RDS Server Machine Policy and expand the following folders: Computer Configuration, Preferences, Registry Right click and choose New, Registry Item Hive: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE Key …
Read More »Show all icons and notifications on the taskbar notification area
Windows 2008R2 gives a user the opportunity to show and hide specific icons in the taskbar notification. Since not al users have the same knowledge of specific settings in Windows i’d like to make this setting for them and show all icons and notifications Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your RDS Server User Policy …
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