I’ve been having some fun with Exchange Server 2007 SP1. Installing this beast on to a Windows Server 2008 R2 is an adventure, made even more adventurous by these kinds of errors:
This error comes right at the start of the installation, after the so-called “pre-requisites” have been met, supposedly. That’s right, the installation process [...]
Tags: Errors · Exchange · Rant
If you run an AD managed by various different people on various different platforms like I do, this is important news for you: Jeremy Moskowitz found a bug and in his unique way, posted a YouTube video about it:
This comes at a good time because I was just about to create a central store!
Tags: Errors · Group Policy
So there I am, working away in my new VM of Server 2008 R2 which Id just made a Domain Controller, when I decided to load the ActiveDirectory module in PoSH (Power Shell) then play around with AD-specific commands. (Im in the process of generating a list of useful resources to our delegated OU administrators [...]
Tags: Active Directory · Errors · Journal · PowerShell
I was just reading that Microsofts research lab contains as many PhDs to rival many university environments with 850.
Yeah, I thought, it has to take that many PhDs to really muck things up. Snarky, I know, but Ive been sorely provoked as the Bard said.
Were currently in the midst of migrations, attempting to combine several [...]
From an EHLO blog posting last week:
We have been made aware that some of our Exchange 2007 customers have been experiencing the following issue today:
When trying to make certain configuration changes such as new-mailbox or enable-mailbox, certain set of our customers would receive the following error:
"The Exchange server address list service failed to respond. [...]
Tags: Errors · Exchange · Rant
It’s been a while since I did any serious web server administration so it didn’t surprise me that the following debacle has until recently unsullied my brow.
Note: from everything I’ve heard, only certificates from Verisign have this problem. Why? I have no clue.
What is this problem? It has to do with renewing [...]
Tags: Errors · Security · Server · Windows
My co-worker is overheard talking about a printing error, the phone’s hung up then he walks over and asks if I’ve ever seen anything like this, and shows me a print out of a kernel error.
Which machine? I asked and he answered, A printer.
A printer?
Yes, an HP 1320 desktop printer has thrown a kernel error. [...]