Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access Service Does Not Start
KB ID 0000802 Problem I build a new SBS 2011 environment last week, and I had just put on the new digital certificate, and as no one was using it, I simply rebooted the SBS Server and went for a coffee. From that point forward all the new Outlook 2013 clients give me this error, Cannot start Microsoft Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window. The set of folders cannot be opened. You must connect to Microsoft Exchange with the current...
SBS – No Incoming Mail ‘421 4.3.2 Service not available’
KB ID 0000803 Problem While testing mail flow on a new SBS 2011 Server, outbound mail worked fine, but no mail would flow in. When I attempted to Telnet in from a remote host this was what I saw; 421 4.3.2 Service not available Connection to host lost. Solution Normally I’d expect to see an error like this if the Exchange ‘Receive Connector’ was misconfigured, (if you’re not using SBS 2011 create a new default...
Allow a Server to “Relay” Through Microsoft Exchange
KB ID 0000542 Problem Back in the early days of email, just about all mail servers let you relay mail though them. That was fine until someone worked out you could then get someone else to send out your “spam”, and they would look like the guilty party. Even today people misconfigure their Exchange servers and make them an open relay. But what happens if you have a particular server or machine that you want to let use your...
Exchange PST Import Error – ‘Couldn’t connect to the target mailbox’
KB ID 0000801 Problem I was trying to import some PST files into SBS 2011, and got the following error; Couldn’t connect to the target mailbox Solution Before you proceed, make sure the user you are logged in as, and are attempting to perform the New-MainboxImportRequest command has been granted the rights to carry out mailbox imports, read the following article; Exchange 2010 (Post SP1) Bulk Importing Mail From pst Files Note:...
Exchange 2013 – ‘The WinRM Shell client cannot process the request’
KB ID 0000855 Problem After building a new Exchange 2013 Server on my test network and changing the Certificate over, I ran a few updates and rebooted. Post reboot I was greeted with this, VERBOSE: Connecting to PNL-EX2013.petenetlive.net. New-PSSession : [pnl-ex2013.petenetlive.net] Processing data from remote server pnl-ex2013.petenetlive.net failed with the following error message: The WinRM Shell client cannot process the request....