I have been debating on which exam to do next over these past few days. The 2 exam choices I have are Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008 or Basic Administration for XenApp 6. I have had a look at the resources that are available for both exams and there is virtually next …
70-662 Passed!
On Tuesday 2nd October 2010 I took and passed the 70-662 TS Microsoft Exchange 2010, Configuring exam. I managed to get a pass score of 935/1000 which I was quite happy with since I had spent approximately 3 months preparing for this exam. Overall i found the exam to be quite easy, whether that was …
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 …
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 …
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/ …
App-V Troubleshooting Tips
There is a great article which contains lots of links for troubleshooting App-V Issues in your environment. You can view it here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/appvcallback/archive/2010/08/03/app-v-troubleshooting-known-issues-and-general-resources.aspx
Powershell Survival Guide
There is a really nice article on the TechNet Wiki which has a nice list of Powershell URL’s to help you learn and master powershell You can view it here: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/windows-powershell-survival-guide.aspx
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 …
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 …
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 …