Exchange 2010 – No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites
Nov17

Exchange 2010 – No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites

KB ID 0000658  Problem Seen when trying to connect to the Exchange 2010 Management Console. Initialization failed. The following error occurred while searching for the on-premises Exchange server: No Exchange servers are available in any Active Directory sites. You can’t connect to remote Powershell on a computer that only has the Management Tools role installed. It was running the command ‘Discover-ExchangeServer -UseWIA...

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Exchange ActiveSync Not Working for Some Users “Post Migration”
Nov17

Exchange ActiveSync Not Working for Some Users “Post Migration”

KB ID 0000695 Problem Error seen on some users on both Exchange 2007 and 2010, (post migration) form earlier versions of Exchange. When it fails you will also see this error. Event ID 1053 MSExchange ActiveSync Exchange ActiveSync doesn’t have sufficient permissions to create the “CN={User Name},OU=<OU Name>,DC={Domain Name},DC=com” container under Active Directory user “Active Directory operation failed...

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Exchange – Redirect OWA (HTTP to HTTPS)
Nov17

Exchange – Redirect OWA (HTTP to HTTPS)

KB ID 0000697  Problem Out of the box, Exchange (quite rightly) secures Outlook Web Access so that you have to access it via https. The problem is some of your users are used to accessing websites via http, (or simply typing a URL in their browser, without typing any prefix, so it defaults to http). If you try and access OWA via http://server.domain.com/owa.. There are a number of ways to get round this, the simplest is to redirect...

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Exchange – Delete and Recreate the PowerShell Virtual Directory
Nov17

Exchange – Delete and Recreate the PowerShell Virtual Directory

KB ID 0000700  Problem One of the big drawbacks of Exchange management being built on PowerShell, and it talking to the PowerShell virtual director is, when IIS has a problem, you can’t manage your Exchange via the command shell, or the Exchange Management Console. While trying to fix a problem last week I wanted to remove and recreate the PowerShell virtual directory, and I found the PowerShell command, but no working examples...

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Exchange – (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS)
Nov17

Exchange – (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS)

KB ID 0000719  Problem Saw this on a brand new Exchange 2010 install, this is not the first time I’ve written about this problem. It’s caused by the same thing as the error in KB0000434, back then I was trying to move mailboxes. This time I was changing the default E-mail Address Policy. It let me change the policy, but when it tried to apply the change to the user(s) this happened. Error Warning: Failed to update...

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