Recently I posted about one cause of Outlook Web Access errors that users may experience after their mailbox is migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007. Users are presented with a browser error containing the message: Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException Exception message: There was a problem accessing Active Directory. In addition to that common cause I [...]
Users unable to access Outlook Web Access after mailbox moves
July 28, 2008 By 1 Comment
Some users may report that they are not able to access OWA after their mailbox has been moved to the Exchange Server 2007 server. Check the properties of the account in Active Directory Users & Computers and verify that in the Security tab the account is configured to inherit permissions. If the tick box is [...]
Installing Exchange Server 2007 pre-requisites on Windows Server 2008
March 27, 2008 By 3 Comments
The Windows Server 2008 ServerManagerCmd.exe tool makes installing the Exchange Server 2007 pre-requisites a snap. In this example I am installing the pre-requisites for a typical Exchange Server 2007 installation (Mailbox Server, Client Access Server, Hub Transport Server). The components are installed using ServerManagerCmd.exe. The following commands can be executed in a command shell to [...]
Apply the Exchange Server 2007 schema extension using a 32-bit Schema Master
March 17, 2008 By 7 Comments
Before deploying your first Exchange Server 2007 server you must apply the Exchange Server 2007 schema extensions. Though you can allow Exchange to do this automatically during setup there are some scenarios where you may wish to do it as a separate process, such as applying the extensions in advance of the first installation, or [...]
Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch
February 25, 2008 By 5 Comments
Project Coconut entries: Project Coconut: Introduction Project Coconut: Part 1 – Getting the environment up to scratch Project Coconut: Part 2 – Sizing the Exchange Server 2007 servers Project Coconut: Part 3 – Deploying the first Exchange Server 2007 server Project Coconut: Part 4 – Configuring Standby Continuous Replication Project Coconut: Part 5 – Its [...]
Recovering a single Domain Controller from a USN Rollback
February 7, 2008 By 9 Comments
Some time ago I wrote about my experience recovering a customer’s Active Directory from a USN Rollback condition that had been caused by some virtualisation work. There has been some discussion in the comments in that post about what to do when you have a single domain controller that thinks it is in a USN [...]
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