Powershell

Test user ‘extest_b648a1a700f64’ isn’t accessible when running test-owaconnectivity

I was recently playing about in Exchange 2010 in preparation for my exam in a few days time and I noticed i was getting an error when i ran the test-owaconnectivity commandlet. I error message i was recieving was: WARNING: Test user ‘extest_b648a1a700f64’ isn’t accessible, so this cmdlet won’t be able to test Client Access …

Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2

Remote Desktop Services Component Architecture Poster

Microsoft have released a nice poster showing all the components of Remote Desktop Services and how they all fit together. Unfortunately I don’t have an A3 sized printer, but i am sure there are companies out there who can print it for me It contains the following components: Remote Desktop Session Host Remote Desktop Virtualization …

Windows Server 2008

Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 1 Released

Exchange 2010 SP1 Rollup 1 has been released to the public. This rollup package contains hotfixes that have been released since SP1 had been released. It contains the following: 2028967 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2028967/ ) Event ID 3022 is logged and you still cannot replicate a public folder from one Exchange Server 2010 server to another 2251610 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2251610/ …

Windows Server 2008

Find out which version of SQL you are running

I recently encountered a problem where we had to identify the versions of SQL Running on a few servers. I found the quickest and easiest method was to run a SQL query against the servers in SQL Management studio. The SQL query to run is: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) This will give you …

Windows Server 2008

Unrecognized Exchange signature 12639 in Exchange 2010 BPA

I ran the Exchange 2010 Best Practice Analyzer in my test lab today to see if it picked up any problems. It picked up only 1 critical problem which was the following error: Unrecognized Exchange Signature: Active Directory domain ‘TESTLAB’ has an unrecognized Exchange signature. Current DomainPrep version: 12639 Hmmmmmmm ok. So i went off …

Windows Server 2008

OneNote 2010 Save to the web not working

One feature of OneNote 2010 which i had been looking forward to using is the ability to save notebooks to your skydrive. I use multiple computers at home and also different computers at work. The ability to have one central location to access your files really appeals to me. So i installed Office 2010 last …

Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2

Proof of Concept Jumpstart Kit

Microsoft have released a Proof of Concept Jumpstart kit to easily allow you to deploy a lab so you can start evaluating Windows 7, Office 2010, IE8 and Application Virtualization with Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack Technology. For more info and download go here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=26301cd1-cc72-4dd8-819e-12ef48322743 The machine requirements to run this are: System Requirements Supported Operating …

Windows Server 2008

Exchange 2010 SP1 details

Here is a good article listing the upcoming improvements in Exchange 2010 SP1 from the Exchange team at Microsoft: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2010/04/05/454533.aspx Key points include: Featured enhancements: Archiving and discovery improvements Outlook Web Access Improvements Mobile user and Management improvements UI improvements Plus also there is a rollup of all the existing fixes included