segunda-feira, outubro 18, 2010

How to Rebuild the Full-Text Index Catalog on DAG Environment


If you cannot search e-mails neither fom Outlook or OWA then you have problems in the database's index catalog. To fix it on a single server you can use the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995966(EXCHG.80).aspx

But if you have databases in a DAG you have to do something else:

1- Suspend all replica databases;
2- Follow the directions described on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa995966(EXCHG.80).aspx;
3- Delete the Index Catalog on Replica databases;
4- Resume the replica databases.

To check how the process is going do the following:

1- Open Reliability and Performance Monitor (perfmon.exe).
2- In the console tree, under Monitoring Tools, click Performance Monitor.
3- In the Performance Monitor pane, click Add (green plus sign).
4- In Add Counters, in the Select counters from computer list, select the server on which the mailbox database you want to monitor is located.
5- In the unlabeled box below the Select counters from computer list, select Full Crawl Mode Status in the MSExchange Search Indices performance object.
6- In the Instances of selected object box, select the instance for the user's mailbox database.
7- Click Add, and then click OK.
8- To make easier to monitor the Full Crawl Mode Status, right-click on graph screen then Properties.
9- Select Graph tab.
10- On View Combo box select Histogram bar and Maximum Vertical Scale insert 2, click OK.

When you see a bar for a database it means that the index catalog is been created (value 1), if you don't see a bar meens the indexing has finished for that database.


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quarta-feira, setembro 01, 2010

Installing SCCM 2007 SP2 on Windows 2008 R2

If after installing SCCM 2007 SP2 on Windows 2008 R2 you get the following error on SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER "SMS Site Component Manager faild to install component SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER on server" you have to enable the webdav and configure it properly.


Steps:
1- Open IIS Manager > Sites > Default Web Sites > WebDAV Authoring Rules;
2- Click Enable WebDAV on Action Pane;
3- Open WebDAV Settings and set the options like below:
         Allow property queries with infinite depth - TRUE
         Allow Custom Properties - FALSE
         Allow anonymous property queries - TRUE
         Click Apply;
4- On Action Pane click Add Authoring Rule dialog box, create a rule like below
         For Allow access to, select All content
         For Allow access to this content to, select All users
         For Permissions, select Read, and then click OK;
5- Restart the service SMS_SITE_COMPONENT_MANAGE


To check if SMS_MP_CONTROL_MANAGER was installed sucessfully open \Logs\mpsetup.log and look for an OK status.


Related sites:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc431377.aspx#Enable_WebDAV
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/configmgrsetup/thread/20ec6449-d5ee-4d5a-b25d-cf780a726f01

terça-feira, junho 22, 2010

How to add a Subject Alternative Name to a secure LDAP certificate

This post describes how to add a Subject Alternative Name (SAN) to a secure Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) certificate. The LDAP certificate is submitted to a certification authority (CA) that is configured on a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based computer. The SAN lets you connect to a domain controller by using a Domain Name System (DNS) name other than the computer name. This article includes information about how to add SAN attributes to a certification request that is submitted to an enterprise CA, a stand-alone CA, or a third-party CA.

A step-by-step is on following site: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/931351

quinta-feira, maio 27, 2010

Disable conversation view on OWA 2010

Not like Outlook 2010 when the conversation view comes disabled by default, on OWA 2010 it comes enebled. 

To disable the way the e-mails are arranged you need just uncheck the highlighted checkbox.

DAG FSW is empty - Getting "The cluster resource could not be found" when try to manage Failover Clustering

I couldn't find way of make the DAG to recreate the files on its File Share Witness, every trying was unsuccessful.

When I tried to remove the servers from DAG to recreate it I recieved an error because the cluster couldn't find the quorum. I decided to try a not good way to solve the problem, but using the following steps I could have the DAG working fine.

1- Removed every server from DAG using Remove-DatabaseAvailabilityGroupServer -Identity -MailboxServer -ConfigurationOnly
2- Cleaned the cluster using this command to every DAG member cluster node /forcecleanup

Done, now you can delete the DAG and recreate it.

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terça-feira, abril 13, 2010

Outlook 2003 doesn't connect to Exchenge 2010

Basicly we just need to remove the encryption requirement from the RPCClientAccess runnig the following command:


Get-RPCClientAccess | Set-RPCClientAccess –EncryptionRequired $false

Source and more ways to fix it:
http://www.howexchangeworks.com/2009/09/cant-connect-outlook-2003-to-exchange.html

terça-feira, abril 06, 2010

Unable to mount Exchange 2007 database


After restoring an Exchange 2007 server from a backup to a test ESXi VM I was unable to mount the Exchange mailbox database:
Failed to mount database ‘Mailbox Store’.
Error:
Exchange is unable to mount the database that you specified. Specified database: SERVER1\First Storage Group\Mailbox Store; Error code: MapiExceptionJetErrorAttachedDatabaseMismatch: Unable to mount database. (hr=0x80004005, ec=-1216)
To fix this I used:
eseutil -p “Mailbox Store.edb” 
eseutil /r E02 /i
(in the directory that contains the database)

!The first command is said to be able to cause the loss of data. So only run this on a backup database!

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