Exchange – Enable ‘Out Of Office’ For Another User
KB ID 0000843 Problem Got in the office to find a colleague was going to be on long term sick this morning, the boss asked, “Can we turn on his out of office?”. I could have simply changed the users password and logged into OWA and done it, but executing some PowerShell would be more elegant. Note: You must be in one of the following groups to carry out this procedure, Organizational Management, Recipient Management, or...
Event ID 9335 and 9331 Offline Address Book Update Errors
KB ID 0000849 Problem Seen on an Exchange 2010 server, this server had previously been upgraded from Exchange 2007, and that was upgraded from Exchange 2003. Event ID 9335 Log Name: Application Source: MSExchangeSA Event ID: 9335 Task Category: (13) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: ServerName Description: OABGen encountered error 80004005 while cleaning the offline address list public folders under...
Public Folder Migration Exchange 2003 to 2010
KB ID 0000426 Problem I’ve already written at length about migrating from Exchange 2003 to 2010, I was doing a migration this week and migrating the public folders was proving to be a pain. If you have multiple public folders within public folders then setting up replication can be a nightmare, as the replication settings don’t get passed down to the child object. Normally you could use PFDAdmin and this would do it for...
AnyConnect – Using a Windows DHCP Server to Lease IP Addresses to the Remote Clients
KB ID 0001050 Problem I did an AnyConnect design for a client recently, and they asked ‘Instead of using the firewall to lease the DHCP addresses to our remote clients, can we use our Windows DHCP Server?” In the past I’ve used Windows DHCP servers for IPSEC VPN clients, but more recently I’ve tended to just use the firewall. The client had some valid reasons for wanting to do so, and given the complexity of...