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External USB drives that are over 2TB can have some issues using built in backup software. This is because drives over 2TB are using a larger sector size of 4096 bytes (commonly referred to as 4K sector size). Historically the drives have used 512 byte sector sizes. This is not all bad news alot of …
For some reason you may want to restart all of the services on your Microsoft Exchange Server. You may want to do this when you have issues with Exchange and you cannot be bothered finding out which exact service needs restarting. This can be done easily by a simple PowerShell script. Below is the script …
I was trying to move mailboxes from one Exchange Server 2007 database to another Exchange Server 2007 database on a seperate server and got the following error: MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make admin interface connection to server. Summary: 1 item(s). 0 succeeded, 1 failed. Elapsed time: 00:00:21 test Failed Error: MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make admin interface …
Psexec is a great little tool that is part of the PSTools suite that was created by Mark Russinovich. The suite can be downloaded from the Microsoft site here. PSExec allows to execute commands to a remote computer from your command line interface. All you need to do is copy the executable file for PSExec …
I got a wierd Exchange Service Pack Error today when trying to upgrade to a new service pack in Exchange Server 2007. During transition of Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2013. I needed to upgrade the Exchange 2007 to service pack 3. When I ran the command setup.com /mode:upgrade in Exchange powershell to upgrade the exchange …
So you may be reading up on PowerShell and be starting to think “really what is a cmdlet?” Well a cmdlet is pronounced command-let and it is a lightweight PowerShell script that performs one function. PowerShell comes with over 200 core cmdlets included but you can write your own or download and use ones that …
Scripting has changed. A new player has come into the works and added more functionality to the Microsoft scripting world, PowerShell. You can map a network drive via script in a few different ways this post will show you how to do it using batch script, VBScript and PowerShell. Map a network drive Batch script …
These errors when adding a user from SBS 2011 console Administrator “Administrator Name” Does not have Exchange administrator rights. Mailbox does not exist for the recipient of welcome email Fix for this is: -Delete user you just created in the SBS console -Go to active directory -Open the Administrator users properties -Go to “Member Of” …
During one of my installations of Exchange Server 2013 I ran into a problem. I was using an old test VM with Windows Server 2012 installed on it and ran the power shell command to prepare the Schema and it returned the following error code: Setup encountered a problem while validating the state of Active …
During one of my installations of Exchange Server 2013 I ran into a problem. I was using an old test VM with Windows Server 2012 installed on it and ran the power shell command to prepare the Schema and it returned the following error code: Setup encountered a problem while validating the state of Active …