Exchange 2007 sp3 when moving from one storage to another 1056749164 Error occurred in the step: Moving messages. Failed to copy messages to the destination mailbox store with error: MAPI or an unspecified service provider. ID no: 00000000-0000-00000000

I had this issue just now, working on Friday after 7pm, and broke the move of mailboxes from one SG to another and I kept scratching my head what happened for this to break like that.
After searching and looking I found that I ran out of space in the disk so, I enabled circular logging and remounted the database then I ran the move wizard again and everything look smiley so far.

Takes long time to open documents in Office 2007

Try this

1.) Open My Computer. 

2.) Go to Tools -> Folder Options, and click on File Types. 

3.) Find the extension of the file in question (XLS, DOC, etc.) 

4.) Highlight the extension, and click \"Advanced.\" 

5.) Highlight the \"Open\" Action, and click \"Edit\” 

6.) Click into the \"Application used...\" field, and scroll to the end of 

the command. 

7.) Put a space at the end, and type in \"%1\" (With the quotes.) 

8.) Uncheck \"Use DDE.\" 

9.) Click \"OK.\"

Open Tools, Options, and check "Ignore other applications that use DDE"

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XCOPY: Use It To Copy Folders Structure ONLY

Sometimes you want to copy the folders structure only but not the content and xcopy is a great free tool to accomplish this.
at the command prompt type the following:
xcopy source destination /T /E
this command will copy the folders structure that is why you need the /T and /E even if the folder is empty

Error code: MapiExceptionADNotFound: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=2417)

If you have the above error during creating a Mailbox Database using the GUI in Exchange 2007, all you need to do is un-tick the box that will mount the database automatically and then after it created you can mount the database after 15 seconds.

How To Access Your Wireless Network From VirtualBox?

If you want to access your wireless network from virtualbox at home or in a place you can't use your network cable, you need to create the first network to your local LAN and then create a second network as a bridge using the wireless card and this way you will have access to the host pc even if there is no cable connected to the RJ45 and you will use the wireless to access the internet and other resources.

What is the actual size of a Database in Exchange 2003?

If you scratch your head when you inspect an Exchange 2003 SP2 database size and found something like this

Exchange PRIV1 Database has dropped below minimum threshold for free space on machine: hbalonex1.hba.online-support.  Maximum size permitted is 75GB, current size is 79.337234GB

I have an answer for you:

How to change the mailboxes size in exchange 2007 or 2010?

1-    Check the mailbox sizes, you need to run this command from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS)

Get-MailboxStatistics -server servername | Sort-Object TotalItemSize –Descending | ft DisplayName,@{Label= “TotalItemSize (MB)”;expression = {$_.TotalItemSize.value.ToMB()}},ItemCount

2-    Check the mailboxes limit from the EMS

Get-mailbox -server servername| Sort-Object DisplayName | ft DisplayName, IssueWarningQuota, ProhibitSendQuota, ProhibitSendReceiveQuota

Why in SBS 2008 after a short period DNS stopped and needed a reboot?

For a permanent work around, the MaxCacheTTL value needs to be changed to a value larger than the TLD TTL (Default value is 1 day, maximum value is 30 days). On SBS2008 there is no negative impact since this is the TTL for the cache of Resource Records. This is just the maximum value that it will be stored on DNS server. If the actual TTL is shorter, the

Error: The User Profile Service failed the logon

When you log on to a Windows Vista-based or a Windows 7-based computer by using a temporary profile, you receive the following error message:

The User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

This error may occur if the "Do not logon users with temporary profiles" Group Policy setting is configured

Method 1: Fix the User Account Profile To do this, follow the steps below:

Get organized: 7 ways to better sort, store, and search your email

A cluttered and unorganized mailbox can make it difficult to find the email you need. This messy situation can be remedied.Microsoft Outlook offers great tools that help you sort your email and organize your messages in meaningful, easy-to-control ways. Outlook can even help increase your efficiency and productivity. Whether you're using Outlook 2010, Outlook 2007 or Outlook 2003, you'll be better able to stay on top of your mail.

Not using Outlook email at all? Perhaps you're using Outlook Express, or maybe you’re using Windows Live Mail or Windows Live Hotmail. These programs offer some features similar to those described here for Outlook, but they don’t offer the same breadth of tools for email management. Use the Microsoft Office Outlook Hotmail Connector to add your Hotmail account to Outlook, and then you can use these tips to also organize your Hotmail. Or read about the Hotmail features that can help you organize information in your Hotmail system. For instance, you can combine mail from your other email accounts, like Gmail and Yahoo! Mail, so that you can receive, read, and respond to all your email in one place.

You can use one or more of the tools covered in this article to help shrink your Inbox and to make it easier to find the information you need.

1. Sort messages quickly

Outlook 2010 has a great new feature for organizing messages by date and arranging them by Conversation. Using this feature, messages that share the same subject appear as Conversations that can be viewed and expanded or collapsed by clicking the icon to the left of the Subject line. The messages within each Conversation are sorted with the newest message on top. When a new message is received, the entire Conversation moves to the top of your message list, helping to make tracking email threads a snap.

To turn on Conversations, on the View tab, in the Conversations group, select theShow as Conversations check box. You can reduce the size of a conversation with the Clean Up feature, which deletes duplicate messages in the Conversation. On theHome tab, in the Delete group, click Clean Up, and then click

Speed up your PC: Automate your computer maintenance schedule

Speed up your PC: Automate your computer maintenance schedule

Most people do one of the following when their computer begins to slow down (besides get angry):

1.       Speed up their computer by buying more memory.

2.       Try to tweak their computer's settings.

3.       Give up. They figure that their computer is old, there's nothing else they can do, and it's probably time to buy a new computer.

All these solutions can help increase PC speed. However, what's to keep your newly blazing PC from slowing down again after a couple months or years? A badly fragmented hard drive will bring even a top-of-the-line new computer to a grinding halt.

One option is to create a preventive PC maintenance plan—a computer maintenance schedule that's easy to set up and put in motion so you never have to think about it again. The plan outlined in this paper uses tools that are built in to your Windows operating system,

Basics for safer downloading

Whenever you download a file—whether you open a spreadsheet attached to an email message, grab a cool little screensaver or mouse cursor from the web, or download music or video files from someone else's computer—you could be putting your computer at risk.

You can take some basic steps to protect your PC and your company's network:

·         Set up your computer with security protection. When you upgrade to Windows 7 from Windows XP, you automatically get a lot of security protection built right into the system.

·         Increase your awareness of attack methods so that you can be on the lookout for them.

·         Use tools to remove unwanted software that has been downloaded to your computer (despite your best efforts to prevent it).

Here's how:

1. Get ready: Strengthen your computer's defenses

Start by checking with your system administrator to find out about your company's security tools and policies. Read the articles Understanding security and safer computing and How to boost your malware defense and protect your PC to get an overview of the kinds of threats that exist and what you can do to defend against them. Because new threats are identified every day, remember to keep your security components—including those on the following list—up to date.

Top 10 new features in Exchange 2010

Top 10 new features in Exchange 2010

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Top 10 new features in Exchange 2010

By Brien Posey

Microsoft recently released Exchange Server 2010, and it's chockfull of new features. This article will introduce you to a few of my personal favorites.

1: Legal hold Over the last several years, it has become increasingly more common for an organization's email messages to be subpoenaed as part of the litigation process. The problem is that email is dynamic in nature. Messages are constantly being sent, received, and deleted. Likewise, messages in the archives are often set to expire after a specific length of time. All of these factors have made it difficult to comply with litigation-related message retention requirements. Exchange 2010 offers a new legal hold feature. This feature allows you to preserve the contents of an Exchange mailbox. Users can still use their mailbox in the usual manner, but copies of all items are retained, even if they delete them or if archived content would otherwise have expired.

Migrate from Exchange Public Folders to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite

Exchange public folders are widely used in on-premises Exchange environment. However, Exchange Online does not support customer usage scenarios of public folders. If you or your customers are using Exchange public folders, there are special considerations for moving customers to Microsoft Business Productivity Online Standard Suite. This document outlines these considerations for field representatives, discusses the most common public folder scenarios and how they are represented in Business Productivity Online Standard Suite services. It also provides the information you need to decide whether Microsoft Online Services is a good match for you based on your current public folder usage.
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=22206

During Installation of Exchange 2010 you faced with "A Restart from a Previous Installation is Pending "

This note I had it when I stuck during the installation of exchange till I found this technet, the link at the bottom.
Microsoft Exchange Server setup cannot continue because a restart from a previous installation or update is pending.
The Exchange Server Analyzer reads the following registry key to determine whether a system restart is required after installation or removal of a software update such as a security update, critical update, or hotfix.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Updates\UpdateExeVolatile
The Exchange Analyzer also checks the following registry key to determine whether a previous software update installation was not completed and the system must be restarted to finish the installation.
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\PendingFileRenameOperations

Tools and Troubleshoot Replication or Migration of Public Folders

Tools:

• PFDAVAdmin:  to connect to the exchange for changing the permissions clients, Replication and more. Work on exchange 2003 
• ExFolder: do the same for Exchange 2007,2010 http://msexchangeteam.com/files/12/attachments/entry456255.aspx 
• Modify Items: to modify the USN and check if the users got access to all items, I mean the administrator, and if ou made any changes you need to run the tools again. 

Remove DC manually through scripting

If you are in a situation during a migration and you stuck with a dc that won't be removed from the AD or it wasn't removed properly and left a lot of reference that stopping you from adding the new DC, use this script and it is like magic will remove any reference in the AD at the bottom there will be a reference to where I got this script from.

REM    ==========================================================
REM                GUI Metadata Cleanup Utility
REM             Written By Clay Perrine
REM                          Version 2.5
REM    ==========================================================
REM     This tool is furnished "AS IS". NO warranty is expressed or Implied.

How to Setup iSCSI for NAS in Windows 2008 Storage Server?

SAN is an expensive product not everyone can afford it. On the other hand, NAS is affordable and can be configured as the SAN when you have the windows storage server installed. This document will show you how to configure the NAS and the iSCSI target and initiator.

Pre requisites
1- Windows Storage Server
2- 2 NICs in each server that will be involve in this setting
3- Separate switch not less than 1Gb

Procedures and steps

A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox. Please contact technical support for your organization.

You have to follow this microsoft article (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/941146) which explains I need to update the msExchVersion attribute 

How to create and set the permission for BESAdmin DOMAIN ACCOUNT for BESX 5.x

To create a BESAdmin account and a mailbox

1-        You need to prepare the network by:

a-        On a domain controller, open Active Directory Users and Computers.

b-        Create an account with the following attributes:

Name: BESAdmin and the password , make sure you set the password to not to change and never expire. Also, create a Microsoft Exchange mailbox and the group membership: Domain User. Place in Users OU.

2-        On the BES server add the BESAdmin account to the local Administrators group. Or  if installing on the DC add to Administrators group.

SETTING SERVICE AND LOGON RIGHTS FOR THE BESADMIN ACCOUNT

For NON-SBS servers see below

1-        On the BES server, open the Local Security Policy under Administrative Tools.

2-        Local Policies > User Rights Assignment > Scroll down to “Log on as a Service” & “Allow log on locally”, double click on it and add the BESAdmin account.

For a SBS servers see below;

•        On a SBS 2003 server, open

How to Migrate DHCP from Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 or 2008 R2?

Export the DHCP database from Windows 2003:

1.                   On the Windows 2003 DHCP server, navigate to a command prompt

2.                   Type the following Command: netsh

3.                   Type the following Command: DHCP

4.                   Type the following Command: server <\\Name or IP Address>

5.                   Type the following Command: export c:\w2k3DHCPdb all

Note You must have local administrator permissions to export the data.

Import the DHCP database

1.       Copy the exported DHCP database file to the local hard disk of the Windows Server 2008-based computer.

How to get the "Add Roles" back if it is greyed?

If you faced with a situation that your Add Roles option is greyed and the refresh button at the bottom of server manager console you need to do the following to gain access back to this function:

• Go to Administrative Tools, Component services 
• Component Services, Computers, My Computer 
• Right Click Properties, Default Properties 
• Change the Default Authentication Level from None to Connect 

This guide is intended to provide step by step instructions on how to migrate from Small Business Server 2003 to Windows 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010.

January 27, 2011 4:29 PM
Article
Author: demazter Date: 04/16/2010 - 12:03PM BST
Title:
Tags: Exchange 2010 Migration, SBS2003, Small Business Server 2003, migration to Exchange 2010
Zone: Exchange Email Server


For this migration to work you will need the following software:
Windows Small Business Server 2003 (SBS 2003)
Windows 2008 Server or Windows 2008 R2 Server
Exchange Server 2010
Microsoft Office Filter Pack from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=60c92a37-719c-4077-b5c6-cac34f4227cc&displaylang=en
Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with integrated Service Pack 2.Only the version with Integrated Service Pack 2 will install on Windows 2008 R2. You can download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=9FB41E51-CB03-4B47-B89A-396786492CBA&displaylang=en
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express which can be downloaded from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=c243a5ae-4bd1-4e3d-94b8-5a0f62bf7796&displaylang=en  You will need to download both the 32bit and 64bit versions

Steps required:
1.   Health Checks on Small Business Server 2003

Issue : getting event id 1988 on the server

Issue :  getting event id 1988 on the server  LONSRV-IIS-01 & on EDISRV-DC-01
Scope : To fix the AD replication between  LONSRV-IIS-01 & on EDISRV-DC-01


You have 2 Sites with 2 DCs in a particular site and 1 DC in a remote site.
+ The site had VPN link between them.

+ initially you had following site structure

I Ste -- London:
LONSRV-DC-01 - All FSMO Roles
LONSRV-DC-02

II Site -- Endinbrough:
EDISRV-DC-01

+ LONSRV-DC-02 was decommisioned & installed LONSRV-IIS-01 about a month ago

+OS on LONSRV-DC-01 -- Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2, x64 , IP address : 172.22.242.5
+OS on LONSRV-IIS-01 -- Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2, x86 , IP address : 172.22.242.94
+OS on EDISRV-DC-01 -- Windows Server 2003 Standard SP2, x86 , IP address : 192.168.0.3