Exchange 2007 addressbook quirk
Posted by Slappa in Exchange 2007, Power Shell, Technical on November 13th, 2007
Getting the following error downloading the addressbook with Outlook 2003 and Exchange 2007
Get Current Exchange OAB Eventlogging level.
Get-EventLogLevel “MSExchangeSA\OAL Generator� Set-EventLogLevel -Identity “MSExchangeSA\OAL Generator� –Level Expert
Remember to disable the logging when you are finished troubleshooting.
Set-EventLogLevel -Identity “MSExchangeSA\OAL Generator� –Level Lowest
 In the end i found two accounts with invalid smtp addresses which the logs identifed easily.
Exchange 2007 Internet STMP Connectivity
Posted by Slappa in Exchange 2007, Power Shell, Technical on November 9th, 2007
Setup SMTP mail receiver
new-receiveconnector -Name ‘Receive from Internet’ -Bindings 0.0.0.0:25 -RemoteIPRanges 0.0.0.0-255.255.255.255 -permissionGroups “AnonymousUsers,ExchangeServers,ExchangeLegacyServers,AnonymousUsers”
Setup Receive MAX Message size 25MB
set-receiveconnector ‘Receive from Internet’ -MaxMessageSize 25Mb
Setup STMP mail sender deliver by DNS resolution
new-SendConnector -Name ‘Sent to Internet’ -Usage ‘Internet’ -AddressSpaces ’smtp:*;1′ -ForceHELO $true -Fqdn mail.domain.com.au -DNSRoutingEnabled $true -UseExternalDNSServersEnabled $false -SourceTransportServers ‘SERVER-EX01′
Setup STMP mail sender deliver using Smarthost
new-SendConnector -Name ‘Sent to Internet’ -Usage ‘Internet’ -AddressSpaces ’smtp:*;1′ -ForceHELO $true -Fqdn mail.domain.com.au -DNSRoutingEnabled $false -SmartHosts ‘[192.168.0.5]‘ -SmartHostAuthMechanism ‘None’ -UseExternalDNSServersEnabled $false -SourceTransportServers ‘SERVER-EX01′
Obviously replace the server name, fqdn and smarthost in the scripts.
Vista network woes
Posted by Slappa in Windows Vista on October 10th, 2007
We are running a few vista machines internally at work, a month or so ago, they started to drop off the network randomly so the users reported. Later I found that it was only their connections to the network shares dropping. Exchange, Internet Access everything else was unaffected. I was baffled as to what it could be. We were using DFS to map the network drives. I found that I could go to \\servername\share but not the \\namespace\data\share path
Anyway I was googleing for answers as any resourceful tech does.
I came across this Microsoft KB Article 933860.
DFS failover does not occur when a client computer that is running Windows Vista tries to connect to a DFS root server that is unavailable, and you receive an error message: “System error 1214 has occurred”
Now these were not the exact symptom’s I was experiencing, but sounded similar. Anyway I contacted MS for the hotfix’s for Vista x86 and x64, and the issue is now resolved.
Friday funnnai!
Four friends, who hadn’t seen each other in 30 years, reunited at a
party.
After several drinks, one of the men had to use the rest room.
Those who remained talked about their kids. The first guy said, “My
son is my pride and joy. He started working at a successful company at
the
bottom of the barrel. He studied Economics and Business Administration
and
soon began to climb the corporate ladder and now he’s the president of
the
company. He became so rich that he gave his >best friend a top of the
line Mercedes for his birthday.”
The second guy said, “Darn, that’s terrific! My son is also my pride
and joy.
He started working for a big airline, then went to flight school to
become a pilot. Eventually he became a partner in the company, where he
owns
the majority of its assets. He’s so rich that he gave his best friend a
brand new jet for his birthday.”
The third man said: “Well, that’s terrific! My son studied in the best
universities and became an engineer.Then he started his own
construction company and is now a multimillionaire. He also gave away
something very nice and expensive to his best friend for his birthday: A
30,000 square foot mansion.”
The three friends congratulated each other just as the fourth returned
from the restroom and asked: “What are all the congratulations for?”
One of the three said: “We were talking about the pride we feel for
The successes of our sons. …What about your son?” The fourth man
replied: “My son is gay and makes a living dancing as a stripper at a
nightclub.”
The three friends said: “What a shame…what a disappointment. ”
The fourth man replied: “No, I’m not ashamed. He’s my son and I love
him.
And he hasn’t done too bad either. His birthday was two weeks ago, and
He received a beautiful 30,000 square foot mansion, a brand new jet and
a top of the line Mercedes from his three boyfriends”.