Rant Space
OWA address book searches displaying hidden users
Bit of an odd one, if your E2k7 address books have hidden entries, and you have several address...
Author: andym Date: 12/07/2009
Installing the Windows Mobile Emulator. Shortcuts dont appear on the Start Menu
I cant claim this, thanks Mike. Saved us some pain. After the install of the WM image itself of the...
Author: andym Date: 11/05/2009
services not starting because they are timeing out prematurely?
most likely in a repro/vm setup where resources are the limiting factor? extend service startup...
Author: andym Date: 11/05/2009
OWA not working and showing red Xs instead of the images?
it is possible for the IUSR anonymous auth account password to get out of sync between where its...
Author: andym Date: 11/04/2009
E2k3 PF hierarchy or content not replicating in or out of a particular server. Using Sophos Pure Message?
We've had a couple of cases where Subject tagging in the product has caused PFs to stop moving out...
Author: andym Date: 08/17/2009
OWA E2k3 stops working with 503 Service unavailable
Looking at the IIS logs this specifically is a 503 0 0 on the get verb on Exchange virtual directory...
Author: andym Date: 07/31/2009
Perfmon Counters appear as numbers
Odd this one, not sure how it happened but it did. Looks like the perfc009.dat is corrupt (file that...
Author: andym Date: 07/16/2009
How do OCS Address books work, and why is mine broken?
That is a very good question... A great link i eventually was able to get is at...
Author: andym Date: 05/13/2009
Setting up a quick OCS 2007 test environment
Perhaps virtualised for testing? Physical HW is obviously better Two W2k3 or W2k8 boxes Configure...
Author: andym Date: 05/08/2009
Windows Mobile not syncing with HTTP 500 internal server error and nextags showing problems with syncstate table
Odd one this, it seems a couple of the reasons this can be seen are down to a corrupt syncstate...
Author: andym Date: 05/07/2009
OCS calling users when unlocking machine or switching from other apps
This has been brought to our attention as an intermittant issue but with more work has given a...
Author: andym Date: 05/07/2009
OCS DNS record creation
SVR, A, SIP, internal, external? All of the above, some of the above? All and fingers crossed? I'm...
Author: andym Date: 04/02/2009
Outlook takes a long time to mark Calendar appointments as tentative - sniffer process is slow
Interesting this, at least i found it interesting as i had no idea this goes on. Mainly as im an...
Author: andym Date: 03/19/2009
Canon Printer, Email and Exchange 2007
Morning all, Quite an interesting one this... In Exchange 2003 a printer may have worked fine,...
Author: andym Date: 03/09/2009
New WM emulator images! 6.1.4
Excited? I am... very looking at some internal training on the new beauty of the WM OS's You (and I)...
Author: andym Date: 02/26/2009
Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager 2007 is not supported on this operating system...
After the 2nd install of SP2 for W2k3 and after installing all the prereqs for DPM on my W2k3 SP2 VM...
Author: andym Date: 01/27/2009
OWA e2k3 "Error: Access is Denied" on a newly build cluster
Strange one this (as my posts tend to be)! Two nodes of a cluster, both newly build. Both W2k3 SP2...
Author: andym Date: 01/22/2009
iPhone users can see entire Public folder hierarchy on Exchange 2003
Interesting one this, and sounds odd initially but upon some further reading is an issue that is...
Author: andym Date: 12/22/2008
How to tell what policy is applying a setting on a machine...
So, you go to change a setting in a policy on a machine, but its greyed out. This is essentially...
Author: andym Date: 12/12/2008
AD Replication stops after changing the motherboard of a DC
Ususally an Exchange man but currently working to expand cross platform knowledge I came accross...
Author: andym Date: 12/10/2008
Powerpath 5.2 and MPIO causing NPP leak
Ive seen a couple of cases now where Non paged pool memory is leaking and causing HTTP resourses to...
Author: andym Date: 12/04/2008
FSMO roles
Okay, not strictly Exchange but interesting none the less. FSMO roles (Flexible Single Maaster...
Author: andym Date: 11/11/2008
test-casconnectivityuser.ps1 errors out with "The storage group you specified .... is a recovery storage group"
Okay, so this isnt going to work, however the error could perhaps be a bit more verbose as to why...
Author: andym Date: 10/23/2008
Exchange 2007 create self signed certificates...
So, you are either using or are testing with self signed certificates. It seems there are a plethora...
Author: andym Date: 09/15/2008
Cluster failing on the HTTP resource? Non-Paged pool memory high?
Is your cluster failing over? Is it the HTTP resource going first? This seems the first resource to...
Author: andym Date: 08/12/2008
TechReady 7 experience
Last week I was lucky enough to get to go to the Microsoft Technical Readyness preperation in...
Author: andym Date: 08/05/2008
Exchange 2003 OWA 404 "file or directory not found" when Colon in the subject line of a mail
Hi, This is a very odd one, what makes it more frustrating is its a tough one to narrow down when...
Author: andym Date: 06/27/2008
My Exchange 2007 build number doesnt update with Rollup X...
How do I know if my application of RU has worked? Why hasnt my build number updated in...
Author: andym Date: 05/30/2008
Exchange 2007 , 9874 EcProcessVirusScanQueueItem and ForeFront
We have seen a few cases where since applying SP1 for Exchange 2007 9874s have appeared in the event...
Author: andym Date: 04/16/2008
Exchange 2007 CCR with Public Folder Store
I have seen a few issues along the lines of having a PF store on a CCR cluster for Exchange 2007,...
Author: andym Date: 04/14/2008
Exchange 2007 12018 and 12017 Certificate errors
This can occur and a handful of these seen for a number of reasons. Some of this depending of the...
Author: andym Date: 03/13/2008
Exchange 2003/2007 Windows 2003 SP2. High Non Paged Pool memory
Something we see a few of is memory and Paged and Non-Paged pool bytes running very high and causing...
Author: andym Date: 03/13/2008
One user generates NDR from non-existant user when they receive a Meeting Request
This seems very strange at first. User A receives a meeting request, the sender of the meeting...
Author: andym Date: 03/05/2008
Exchange 2007 external Meeting Request through MessageLabs
At the time of writing there are some known issues with sending Meeting Requests externally from...
Author: andym Date: 03/03/2008
PFs not replicating to Exchange 2007 in mixed organisation
In a mixed Organisation where we have Excvhange 2000 or 2003 when content or the hierarchy isn't...
Author: andym Date: 03/03/2008
Exchange 2007 - Mail queuing/backing up in Submission queue. A Transport agent problem?
So, this can happen for a variety of reasons, is it a spike and busy time? Are disks getting hit/not...
Author: andym Date: 03/03/2008
Hello World
As is tradition here is my first post to my blog, basically introducing myself and the intentions of...
Author: andym Date: 02/22/2008