When I did the installation on my first CAS server I got the followong error during the CAS Role Install:
[ERROR] An unexpected error occurred while the forms-based authentication settings for path /LM/W3SVC/1 were being modified. The error returned was 5506
Continue reading ‘Adventures Installing Exchange 2007 SP2 — Error 5506′
Published February 11th, 2009
in Exchange 2007, Exchange, Windows Update and WSUS.
Published June 2nd, 2008
in Exchange 2007.
This post is the result of an experience one of my clients had. I hope it helps other Exchange 2007 SP1 users.
Here is the scenario, a loyal administrator somewhere deletes Robert Smith when they meant to delete Roberta Smith. It could also be that someone was confused by the ‘newspeak’ in the Exchange Management Console (EMC) and did not realize that ‘Remove’ equates to ‘Delete User’ not to ‘Remove Exchange Attributes’ under ‘Exchange Tasks…’ in the 2000/2003 Exchange extended ADUC and deleted the user object by mistake. The conflicting terminology is another subject I will pass over here.
Your phone rings. Easy right? Just put it all back the way it was. Well, it is a little more complicated than that. Let’s get started…
Continue reading ‘How do I restore a deleted Exchange 2007 user? or A funny thing happened on the way to a reconnect?’
Published June 2nd, 2008
in IIS and Exchange.
It is best practice to require users to use a secure connection for OWA. It is impractical to ‘train’ then to type a specific URL such as https://owa.myorg.com/exchange.
But, if you configure your OWA site to require SSL, when they type http://owa.myorg.com or just owa.myorg.com (which will default to http) they will not connect successfully.
So, how to allow them to use the lowest common denominator of owa.myorg.com but still connect them SSL?
Continue reading ‘How to redirect an HTTP connection to HTTPS for OWA — the easy way.’
Haven’t been here enough. Too busy working ;)
So, I have embarked on the decision making adventure of choosing ESX 3.5 or Hyper-V for my new internal playground. The playground is a shiny new ML370. I have dual booted it with Beta Hyper-V and a trial of ESX 3.5 (more on exactly how that was accomplished later if I get time).
Not having Virtual Center and not intending to pop the cash for it, I am evaluating ESX using the VMware Infrastructure Client, which leads me to Hyper-V.
Continue reading ‘How do I install the Hyper-V mmc Snap-in on a non-compliant machine? or Where is adminpak.msi in Windows Server 2008?’
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