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Dear All, I'm trying to restore a an Exchange database to RSG. This is a an Exchange 2007 RU6 SP3 in sitting on a cluster. We've configured CCR. Now, I'm trying to restore a database using RSG. I've configured the RSG (it sits on a clustered drive) and marked the DB to be overwritten by...

Dear All, I've been having reoccurring problems when backing up ESX VMs. There are two major errors. One the backup job selection fails with the following error: "Final error: 0xe000959a - An attempt to take a snapshot of a virtual machine failed because it was unable to quiesce an...

Dear All, Sine about two, three weeks, I have been experiencing a weird issue: The scheduled jobs start. but then at random times and random servers they just stop running. Don't fail, don't stop. Just hanging at some source and don't do anything. The only thing I can do is to kill the engine...

Dear All, I’ve been having a weird issue with Backups Exec 2010 R3. When backing up a domain controller I get the following message: Backup V-79-57344-65149 - AOFO: Initialization failure on: "System?State". Advanced Open File Option used: Microsoft Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS). Snapshot...

Dear All, I thought I understood the concept of the accepted domains quite well. However, I've just started working for an Org, and I just cannot see the organization’s domain suffix in the accepted domains list. We are still receiving emails though. There are several sub domains of our main...

Hub Transport High Availability across AD sites. Dear All, Just a quick question: I have two Data Centres and want to make our Exchange 2010 fully resilient. One of the questions I have is this: If the Hub Transport Server in the primary DC dies, will the mail be redirected to the Hub...

Dear Techies, I have come across a weird issue. We have an AD 2003 domain spanning several sites. We have sites and services configured with all subnets etc. The issue we have been having is that clients are getting SYSVOL referrals to servers in different AD sites, causing logon performance...

Dear Techies, I thought I know a lot about AD, however, I came across a situation that left me bedazzled. A workstation (member of our domain) had its account deleted from AD. Not a big deal, happened million times. However, a user using that workstation was still able to log on to the domain...

Fellow Techies, Is there any way to delegate a number of people to move mailboxes within Exchange 2003 Org? If yes, what permissions are required to achieve that? I do not want to make these users Full Org Admins, but I need them to be able to move mailboxes between different Storage Groups and...

Dear All, Is it possible to get Exchange 2007 to create mailboxes automatically for all new users created in ADUC? In Exchange 2003, any new user could have a new mailbox created as a part of the account creation. Is it possible in Exchange 2007 / 2010? Regards.

Dear Techies, I have an Exchange 2007 SP1 in the following configuration: HUB/CAS on Windows 2008, 2 x Mailbox in a CCR cluster on Windows 2008. The Domain is Windows 2003 level. I’m trying to install Exchange 2007 SP3 and am getting the following error: Invalid high surrogate character...

Dear All, I need to modify DACLs of several (about 100) AD Global groups. These groups are within OU where other groups reside (about 5000) so I cannot do it on the OU level. Does anyone know how to automate it? Regards, Michael

Dear Techies, I’m planning to upgrade our AD estate (currently Windows 2003 SP1) to Windows 2003 R2. I just wanted to find out from those who have done it, what to watch for. I know that the upgrade involves schema updated to accommodate the new DFS-R attributes and server roles. I have two...

Dear All, Does anyone know how to delegate permissions to move computers between different OUs? I’ve been trying to delegate this task to a group but to no avail. I’ve even granted the group full permissions on “this object and all child objects” for the OUs but it’s still not working. I’d...

Fellow Techies, Just a quick one. I’ll be upgrading our 10 Windows 2003 Domain Controllers to SP2. I’ve two questions: - As I want to test SP2 on a non FSMO servers – can I run domain controllers with different service pack levels? - Were you aware of any issues after upgrading to SP2? Many...

Dear Colleauges, I have been getting loads of failed events 672 on our Windows 2003 SP1 domain controllers. There are virtually no information about failed 672 events out there (plenty on successful ones though). An example: Authentication Ticket Request: User Name: Jo Blog Supplied...

Fellow Techies, I have a weird issue. I audit log on events (success and failure) on our Windows 2003 SP1 DCs. I’ve noticed many failed 675 events: Pre-authentication failed: User Name: Jo Blog User ID: MyDomain\JoBlog Service Name: krbtgt/mydomain Pre-Authentication Type: 0x2...

Dear colleagues. We have several AD sites with DCs on each of them. All DCs are also Global Catalog servers. The thing is that whenever I restart a DC, I get error message in the event stating that the Global Catalog server could not be contacted, followed by another message stating that the GC...

Dear Colleagues, I’m trying to understand one thing here: what is the maximum number of users in a distribution group (or any other group in fact)? I know that in MS Windows 2000 AD max number was 5000. However, all articles I’ve read so far indicate that in Windows 2003 AD / Exchange this...

Fellow Techies, I’m trying to bulk import users into AD using CSV. However, every time I runt the import it fails with the “Invalid number of attributes in input file” I’ve been trying to import it using examples from the net, sometimes using only three attributes (example below)...