SBS – Alert – ‘The following disk has low idle time’
KB ID 0000583 Problem I got this alert forwarded to me, from a client that I’d put in new hard drives for a few week ago. Alert: The following disk has low idle time, which may cause slow response time when reading or writing files to the disk. Disk: {Number} {Drive Letter}: Review the Disk Transfers/sec and % Idle Time counters for the PhysicalDisk performance object. If the Disk Transfers/sec counter is consistently below 150...
Exchange: Importing Mail From PST Files (including Bulk Importing)
KB ID 0000443 Problem If you have mail in .PST file format that you would like to import, either exported via ExMerge from an older Exchange server, or Exported via Outlook, or even exported via PowerShell, then the process for importing that mail into Exchange has been the same since Exchange 2010 (SP1). Before SP1 you would have to install a copy of Outlook on the Exchange server and use a PowerShell command that looks like this...
HP MSA P2000 (G3) Error – ‘Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume’
KB ID 0000817 Problem Seen on a G3 P2000 SAN, the client had also had an MSA70 shelf, which contained a failed array. I was removing the MSA and after the job, this error was getting logged. Unwritable write-back cache data exists for a volume (vdisk: unknown name, volume: unknown name, SN {Serial Number} it comprises {number}% of cache. Solution Essentially, there was data in the cache that needed writing to the array/vdisk, when it...