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....
ESEUTIL error – “Unable to find the callback library jcb.dll”
KB ID 0000530 Problem Seen when trying to execute an eseutil command on an Exchange database: Error: Callback DLL not found Unable to find the callback library jcb.dll (or one of its dependencies). Copy in the file and hit OK to retry or hit Cancel to abort. Solution 1. Download this zip file, and extract the jcb.dll to the “bin” directory on your Exchange server, then click OK to continue and eseutil will complete....
Exchange 2010 / 2007 Enable or Disable Tarpitting
KB ID 0000549 Problem With Exchange 2003 tarpitting was turned on post SP2 with a registry hack, with newer versions of Exchange it is enabled by default. What is Tarpitting? This is a method to stop a mail sender sending you multiple mail requests, it was designed to stop miscreant from carrying out either a :- Directory Harvest Attack : Attempting to find out legitimate emails on your email server by randomly sending emails to...
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...