Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 Error – ‘The IIS 6 WMI Compatibility component is required’
Nov17

Exchange 2010 Service Pack 3 Error – ‘The IIS 6 WMI Compatibility component is required’

KB ID 0000771  Problem If you attempt to install Exchange Service Pack 3 on an Exchange server that is currently running Service Pack 1 you will see this error. Error: The ‘IIS 6 WMI Compatibility’ component is required. Install the component via Server Manager. Solution Note: This was a prerequisite for SP2, so if you do not see this error your Exchange was deployed with SP2 slipstreamed into it, or the problem was dealt...

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Event ID 3154 ‘Active Manager Failed To Mount Database’
Nov17

Event ID 3154 ‘Active Manager Failed To Mount Database’

KB ID 0000867  Problem Seen on an Exchange server, in my case I got one for the mailbox database, immediately followed by one for the public folder database. Active Manager failed to mount database MailStore 01 on server {Server-name}. Error: An Active Manager operation failed with a transient error. Please retry the operation. Error: Database action failed with transient error. Error: A transient error occurred during a database...

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Stop Exchange Store.exe Taking 99 – 100% Physical Memory
Nov17

Stop Exchange Store.exe Taking 99 – 100% Physical Memory

KB ID 0000903  Problem Before you go any further with this article THIS IS COMPLETELY NORMAL! It may look a little odd if you look in Task Manager. Store.exe will take as much RAM as it can get hold of, the difference between that, and a program that ‘hogs’ memory is, it has been designed to monitor the system, and release memory as it’s required by other processes. So for 99.999% of you stop reading now! OK, You can...

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Public Folder Migration Exchange 2003 to 2010
Nov17

Public Folder Migration Exchange 2003 to 2010

KB ID 0000426  Problem I’ve already written at length about migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010, I was doing a migration this week and migrating the public folders was proving to be a pain. If you have multiple public folders within public folders then setting up replication can be a nightmare, as the replication settings don’t get passed down to the child object. Normally you could use PFDAdmin and this would do it for...

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Microsoft Excel – SGXLADDIN.dll could not be found

KB ID 0000505  Problem Seen when launching Microsoft Excel.. Error: ‘C:WindowsSysWOW64SGXLADDIN.dll’ could not be found, Check the spelling of the file name, and verify that the file location is correct. Solution You are seeing this because you have installed a Sage accounting product in the past and it dropped some add-ins into Excel. 1. Close the error > Click File> Options > Add-Ins > Select the “Sage...

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