AnyConnect – ‘Your environment does not meet the criteria’
KB ID 0001232 Problem For an existing client, I was setting up a new user. I connected their laptop though my mobile phone and attempted to connect. This is the error I got. Cisco AnyConnect Logon denied: Your environment does not meet the access criteria defined by your administrator. Solution A cursory glance over the firewall config didn’t yield anything in their AAA settings that was odd, they were simply using LDAP for...
VMware ESX – Enable ‘Embedded Host Client’
KB ID 0001231 Problem Since ESX 6.0.0 Update 2 you’ve been able to use the Embedded Host Client in ESX. Which is great if (like me) you use a Mac because I don’t have to fire up a windows box to load the ‘Fat’ VI client anymore. What about older version of ESX? If you are running 5.5 (update3) or newer then you can install and use the Embedded Host Client. Why didnt you just upgrade to 6.0.0 Update 2? Well my...
Exchange – Test User Extest Isn’t Available
KB ID 0001230 Problem While troubleshooting some connectivity issues I used the Test-EcpConnectivity commandlet and got the following error; Test user ‘extest_bebc4142688e4’ isn’t accessible so this cmdlet wont be able to test Client Access Server connectivity Solution To enable the test user you need to run a script, and you will find it in the script directory in the Exchange setup media . Locate and run the...
Exchange Renaming and Moving Databases
KB ID 0001229 Problem Exchange has a habit of naming its databases as ‘Mailbox Database {Random-Number}’. This makes my OCD ‘itch’. So one of the first things I do is rename the database to something more sensible. Then I like to move the databases from the server system drive, and also relocate the log files into their own partition/drive. Solution Rename a Mailbox Database Log into Exchange Admin Center >...
Exchange – Cannot Delete Mailbox Move Request
KB ID 0001228 Problem On the tail end of an Exchange 2010 to 2016 migration last week, I needed to decommission the old Exchange 2010 server. It would not let me remove the mailbox database, as it had a ‘move-request’ that it thought had not completed, (for the administrator account). However if I tried to delete the move request from the EMC this happened; Error Failed to communicate with the mailbox database...
Outlook – Constantly Prompts for a Password
KB ID 0001227 Problem I did an Exchange 2010 to 2016 Migration for a school this week. They are going to reimage all their PCs to Windows 10 and install Office 2016 over the summer holidays. But a few staff members were working over the holidays and needed their Win7/Outlook 2010 clients pointing to the new Exchange server. This I did (I simply created new mail profiles and let auto discover do its work). But then the Outlook clients...
Public Folder Migration Error hr=0x80040111
KB ID 0001228 Problem I usually follow my own documented process for migrating public folders to Exchange 2016. I did that this week, and this happened; Error; MapiExceptionLogonFailed: Unable to make connection to the server. (hr=0x80040111, ec=-2147221231) Diagnostic context: Lid: 49064 dwParam: 0x1 Lid: 37288 StoreEc: 0x6AB Lid: 49064 dwParam: 0x2 Lid: 49191 EMSMDBMT.EcDoConnectEx called [length=178] ...
Setting Up Meraki MDM
KB ID 0001226 Problem As is usually the case with Meraki this is pretty simple to setup. If you are familier with Meraki and have not deployed MDM before then stop a second. I mistakenly setup a dashboard for a client recently, (like I usually do with Meraki deployments). Then could not work out how to add the MDM component without an order number! Meraki MDM is free (up to 100 devices) which is great, but BE WARNED, register 101...
Exchange 2016 – EAC (ECP) Works But OWA Does Not
KB ID 0001225 Problem During an Exchange 2010 to Exchange 2016 Migration, I was busy migrating mailboxes into the 2016 mailbox database. I noticed that while the Exchange Admin Center worked fine (I was doing the migration from there!) Outlook Web Access did not. I got a ‘Something Went Wrong” error. 🙁 Something Went Wrong We Cant get the information right now. Please try again later. More Details Refresh the page...
Exchange 2016 (& 2013) Enable Circular Logging
KB ID 0001224 Problem Let’s be clear about this, the correct way to flush/clear the Exchange logs is to perform a backup of the mailbox database in question, with an ‘Exchange aware’ piece of backup software. This will clear down the logs properly. Why Do We Need Logs? Well I’m glad you asked, if there’s a problem, and we lose the database, we can ‘play’ the log files back into the database to...