Exchange 2016 / 2019 Adding a New Email Domain
KB ID 0001297 Problem On EE this morning someone asked this question and I realised I’ve never written it up. So If you want to add a new domain to an already working Exchange deployment how do you do it? Solution Firstly, you need to have purchased the new domain name, and have the DNS records setup properly for the new domain name. See the following article; Setting up the Correct DNS Records for your Web or Mail Server Add...
Barracuda Web Filter – Not Displaying Usernames
KB ID 0001296 Problem I installed a Barracuda Web Filter 410 hardware appliance last week for a client on a 30 day trial. It was in ‘inline’ mode in front of their firewall and was happily logging all web activity and sites that were getting blocked. The problem was when you looked in the log this is what you saw; With other vendors you simply need to put an agent in to fix this, and as it turns out Barracuda is no...
Users Cannot Access Public Folders Post Migration (Exchange 2016)
KB ID 0001295 Problem This post comes form my colleague Andrew Dorrian, he usually follows my migrating public folders article. Recently after a couple of Exchange 2016 migrations he has seen a problem where the public folders are visible in the Exchange Admin Console, but the users can’t access them. Solution Open ADSIedit.msc and connect to the ‘Configuration’ context. Navigate to; CN=Services > CN=Microsoft...
Windows – Display Memory Modules From Command Line
KB ID 0001294 Problem This is a handy command I came across this week, If you need to know the hardware memory configuration for a machine, and either don’t want to open the case to take a look, or you are at a different location, (i.e. remote connected onto the machine). How do you do it, without installing some audit software? Solution Simply run the following command; wmic MEMORYCHIP get BankLabel,DeviceLocator,Capacity,Tag...
ESX Cannot Mount MSA P2000 Datastores
KB ID 0001292 Problem For the first time in ages I’ve been doing a VMware upgrade this week, a client had an MSA P2000 G3 and two G8 DL380 servers running vSphere 5.5. I put in a new 6.5 VCSA, built some new G9 DL380 servers, I noticed that the SAN was presenting five storage LUNs but the new ESX 6.5 servers could only see three of them? Strangely when I selected the SAS storage controllers they could see all 5 storage LUNs,...
Reset IBM / Lenovo IMM Username and Password
KB ID 0001291 Problem After recycling an old M3 3650 IBM X Series server the other week, I was stuck trying to get into the IMM, because no one knew what the password was. The default username of USERID and password of PASSW0RD (with a zero) didn’t work either. Solution For me it was OK because I could reboot the server and get directly into the BIOS , (Press F1 at boot) System settings. Integrated Management Module. Reset...
Audacity – Looping Audio (Repeating Sections)
Looping Audio KB ID 0001290 Problem Those that know me, will know I’ve been struggling to learn the guitar over the last few months. Recently my teacher, (the extremely talented Mr John Robson,) gave me some tab to learn, and helpfully recorded a backing track. Now it’s only 8 bars long, and not particularly fast, but I was still struggling to keep up. 🙁 Like all practical skills I learn by good old EDIP, (Explanation...
Cisco IOS – Enabling LLDP
KB ID 0001289 Problem If you’re running Cisco IOS on all you devices then you can use CDP to see what’s directly connected, (unless you are on a Cisco firewall, but I did say IOS devices). Petes-Switch#show cdp neighbors Capability Codes: R – Router, T – Trans Bridge, B – Source Route Bridge S – Switch, H – Host, I – IGMP, r – Repeater, P – Phone, D – Remote, C...
Can A Domain Trust Another Domain With The Same ‘Root Domain’ Name?
KB ID 0001288 Problem About a month ago I was with a client to do some investigation/consultancy, they were a large company with their head office in the UK and a number of other offices around the world. They had a number of domains and sub domains and wanted to consolidate them all into a new domain. Well that’s all OK, but the UK company has been purchased by a large American company, who were putting a lot of pressure on...
Windows – A Delegation For This DNS Server Cannot Be Created
KB ID 0001287 Problem When promoting a server to be a domain controller, you might see the following error, “A delegation for this DNS server cannont be created because the authoritative parent zone cannot be found or it does not run Windows DNS server. If you are intergrating with an existing DNS infrastructure, you should manually create a delegation to this DNS server in the parent zone to ensure reliable name resolution from...