Microsoft Products

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Access Window shares in OWA

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You can access window network shares through Outlook Web Access (OWA).

 

You need to allow the servers you want users to access first or you will see an error. The error is:  “For security reasons, Outlook Web Access is configured to prevent access to this type of document or folder. For more information, contact technical support for your organization.”

 

  • How to add server shares in Exchange:

 

Open Exchange Management Console and expand Server Configuration –> select Client Access Server.  Then right click on the OWA directory –> Select Properties.

 

 

 

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Incoming SMTP blocked by ISA

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I ran into an issue with my recently deployed ISA firewall. It was blocking any STMP incoming traffic. This made it so my Exchange users could send  email just fine but could not receive any incoming email. I checked the  Event Viewer and saw this: Event Type:        Warning Event Source:    Microsoft Firewall Event Category:                None … Read more

Exchange 07 backup with DPM 07

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I recently had the task of backing up Exchange 2007 using DPM 2007. I added the DPM agent to the Exchange server just fine. When I modified the protection group to add my storage groups I got an error saying I needed the eseutil.exe and ese.dll on the DPM server. I got these off my Exchange … Read more

Source: MSExchange ADAccess Event ID: 2114

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At a client’s site they had Small Business Server 2008. For some reason Exchange 2007 was no longer working after they ran some windows updates on SBS 2008 and did a reboot. The information store service would no longer start. I checked event logs and saw this “Source: MSExchange ADAccess Event ID: 2114“. After doing some research I … Read more

SharePoint Event

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Check out this free SharePoint event in Minnesota. Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday IV on March 20, 2010 The 4th Biannual Twin Cities SharePoint Saturday! (Formerly known as the Twin Cities SharePoint Camp.)  Spend a day with other SharePoint Administrators, Developers and End Users and come away with tips, tricks and a richer understanding of how … Read more

Restore Win 08 SystemState that was recovered by DPM 07

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So you have your 2008 servers systemstate backed up by DPM 2007. Your server crashes and you need to recover. DPM 2007 does not give an option to recover to the server only to tape or a network share.

 

What do you from here? The answer is you have to actually restore the system state using Microsoft’s built in windows backup utility. There is another catch it has to be done via command line using WBADMIN. Here are the steps to recover a server using Windows 2008 Backup from the command line:

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Can’t connect to MICROSOFT##SSEE DB

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I had a Windows Small Business Server 2008 with WSS 3.0 running on it.  I needed to get to the content databases. I tried to connect to the SQL instance using the default server name (SERVER)\MICROSOFT##SSEE in SQL Management Studio. I was unable to connect no matter what account I used. I discovered it is installed on a … Read more