Exchange 2010 – Working with Certificates
KB ID 0000453 Problem Exchange 2010 installs with it’s own (self signed) certificate. To stay free of security errors and warnings, the best bet is to purchase a “publicly signed” digital certificate and use that. The following process uses the Exchange Management console to create a CSR (Certificate Signing Request). Then what to do with the certificate, when it has been sent back to you. Solution Certificate...
Exchange 2010 – Delete / Remove all Disconnected Mailboxes
KB ID 0000470 Problem In older versions of Exchange, we just had to “Purge” disconnected mailboxes, now we don’t have that option. Solution WARNING this will remove ALL disconnected mailboxes, make sure you actually want to do this before proceeding. Launch > Exchange Management Shell. Issue the following commands; $mailboxes = Get-ExchangeServer | Where-Object {$_.IsMailboxServer –eq $true} | ForEach-Object {...
Exchange Install Error ‘Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the ‘beremote’
KB ID 0000475 Problem Seen when attempting to install Service Pack 3 on Exchange 2007. On a server that’s also running Symantec Backup Exec. Hub Transport Role Prerequisites Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the ‘beremote’ () process (ID: xxxx) has open files. Close the process and restart Setup. Client Access Role Prerequisites Error: Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the...
Cannot Access Exchange Management Console
KB ID 0000477 Dtd 02/05/13 Problem Since Exchange 2007, its management tasks have been done via PowerShell, (yes even the GUI Management). Which is fine, however it runs all that PowerShell from a virtual directory that lives in the servers’ IIS webserver. When that fails or there is a problem, Exchange runs quite happily, but you can’t run the management tools. There are a number of reasons for this to fail and a number...
Exchange – “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console”
KB ID 0000478 Problem Seen on Exchange 2010 SP1 running on Windows Server 2008 R2. Whenever you attempt to close the Exchange Management console you see the following error. You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange Management Console Even though there are no dialog boxes open! Solution Essentially this is a Bug in Internet Explorer 9. To stop this happening you have 3 choices. Option 1 Hotfix released 18/10/11 1....