10
May
Error On Migrating A Mailbox To Exchange 2010
After installing Microsoft Exchange 2010 I wanted to move my mailbox from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010. Using the wizard in Exchange Console I got this error
Error:
Active Directory operation failed on *DomainController*. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation.
Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150E8A, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0The user has insufficient access rights.
Exchange Management Shell command attempted:
’*OUStructure*’ | New-MoveRequest -TargetDatabase ‘Mailbox Database nnnnnnnnnn′ -BadItemLimit ‘0′
- I found that this error can be fixed by editing the Advanced Security Settings for the user on the AD.
- Open “Active Directory Users and Computers”
- Click “View > Advanced Features”
- Select the users mailbox properties
- Navigate to “Security Tab > Adanced”
- Select the checkbox “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent”
- Apply changes
Afterwards the move should go swimmingly, however you may need to remove your move request a try again.
26
Nov
Import SQL File into MySQL
When moving my wordpress over to Windows I spent a little time finding out how to import a SQL dump file in to MYSQL. I didn’t find thing concrete that worked. So I used that feature, Help! and worked it out. Here are the steps I used.
1. Open MySQL Command Line Client and enter your MySQL root password
2. Select a database to import your SQL file too. Replacing “databasename” with your database name.
USE "databasename"
replacing “databasename” with your database name. Replace “C:\sqlfilenamee.sql” with the location of your SQL file.
3. Excute your SQL file by entering the following command
\. "C:\sqlfilenamee.sql"
Hit enter and your SQL file will be imported in to your database. Simples!
6
Sep
Windows Home Server In The Office?
This week a nice big box was waiting for me at home. It was a nice new HP ML115 server but unfortunately its not for me to keep, its for my Dad. For those of you that don’t know I handle the IT for my parents business. Its quite a handy role. I can pretty much do everything remotely, it helps towards refilling my pockets and its getting me quite alot of experience in all sort of areas in IT which I can then use on my placement or when I need to look for a job in 2 years time.
Anyway back to the point. Why the nice shiny server I hear you ask? Well its part of a plan I am putting in place in order to keep everything on the business computers backed up! There is a simple backup system in place but it doesn’t cover everything. Only the important bits. So its Windows Home Server to the rescue. Yep that’s right I’m going to put Windows Home Server on the new machine. Windows Home Server (WHS) is quite handy when it comes to small business’s and/or offices. In this case the backup of networked computers is the main reason WHS is being deployed and here is why…
- Backs up all the computers daily
- Pretty much restore a computer in 10 minutes.
- Restore a whole computer or that file you just deleted
- Doesn’t use up terabytes of data space
Its an all round win. You can aswell, with a bit of a nudge join it to a domain and run services on it like Virtual Machines, DNS, FTP etc etc..
I’m not the only one deploying WHS in a small business. Microsoft even recommends it and are starting to push the idea to small business’s…
30
Jun
No Post, No Video Display – Asus P6T-SE
Yesterday the new machine I built had an Asus P6T-SE motherboard. Once built and switched on we found that the machine would not boot or show any video display. A quick google resolved this to conclude the BIOS needing a new firmware update but how can you update it without video display?
Well it seemed to boot without a DVI cable attached. So remove all video cables including VGA and boot the machine wait 3/5 minutes and attach a VGA cable and the monitor should display the BIOS asking to confirm default settings.
Head over to the ASUS Support Site and download the latest firmware (Version 0403) and burn it to a CD. Don’t forget to unzip it first. Updating the motherboard was straight forward using Asus EZ Flash utility in the BIOS and took a minute or two.
More Info: http://vip.asus.com
3
Oct
How To: Load Balance Network Adapters in XP
If you have two or more network cards in your system this setting allows you to distribute the number of connections across each adapter. I have found it useful on my file sever when numerous files are being streamed across the network, adding this on a switched network allows you to get more bandwidth out of your system.
Here is how to do it:
- Click Start, Run and type “regedit”
- Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, SYSTEM, CurrentControlSet, Services, NetBT, Parameters
- Right Click in the window to the right, New , DWORD value
- Enter “RandomAdapter” and give it a value of 1
- Restart system.
5
Sep
How To: Share Mailbox on Exchange 2003
This is just a quick post on process of sharing a mailbox within exchange. Its mainly for me just in case I forget later but if it helps just one person it will be worth the posting.
This is done on Small Business Server 2003 with Microsoft Exchange 2003, although it may be applied to Exchange 2007 but I’m not sure I haven’t yet touched it.
You may want to share a mailbox for a number of reasons but the main reason for me is to allow multiple people to use a mailbox for a certain role. For example you may have an e-mail address along the lines of support@example.com. You may have multiple people replying to support e-mails. By sharing a mailbox users can mark e-mails read, flag or even delete e-mails.
Here is how its done!
Stage 1: Allow users access
1: Create a user account for the e-mail address. I am going to use the example support.
2: Set up the accounts e-mail (pop3 mailbox etc)
3: Log on to the account (Support)
4: Open Outlook, Click; Tools > Options > Delegates > Add
5: Add/Find users you would like to grant permissions to
6: Add the user by clicking “Add–>>;” Tip: you may add multiple users
7: Click OK
8: Clicking the Inbox drop-down menu; select editor (See Fig1)
9: Click OK x2, and return to Outlook
Stage 2: Apply permissions to the inbox.
10: Right Click “Mailbox – “useraccount displayname”" and select Properties
11: Add the users from before
12: Grant each user “Publishing Editor” permissions
13: Click OK
14: Log off
Stage 3: Add the mailbox
15: Log on to the user account you granted access to (Eg user1)
16: Open Outlook
17: Click Tools > E-mail Accounts
18: Click Next > Change
19: Click More Settings > Advanced
20: Click Add
21: Enter the name of the mailbox (Eg Support)
22: Click Ok
23: A message box will appear, Click Ok
24: Click Next > Finish
25: Upon returning to the main Outlook screen the mailbox should appear down the left hand side
26: If it doesn’t restart Outlook
27: Repeat stage 3 for each user
Hope this helps?