Unable to Contact, Connect to, or Manage, a DNS Server from DNS Management Console
KB ID 0000559 Problem If you open the DNS Management console on a server running an older OS than 2008 R2, then attempt to connect to a 2008 R2 DNS Server you will see this error. You will also see this error on a 2012 Server, whilst attempting to add another DNS Server Error: Dnsmgmt Cannot Contact the DNS Server The specified DNS server cannot be contacted. Some possible reasons include; the DNS server may not be running, there may...
Exchange – 4.5.1. 4.4.0 Primary Target 4.2.1 unable to connect to alternative host
KB ID 0000790 Problem My colleague Allen was doing an Exchange 2003 to 2010 migration today, and things were not going well, mail refused to flow from the Exchange 2003 server to the Exchange 2010 server (it flowed from 2010 to 2003 without error). During migrations that’s not unusual, and removing and recreating the routing groups usually fixes it, but he had done that. Mail was sat on the Exchange 2003 Server outbound queues on the...