Can I ‘Shrink’ My Exchange Database?
Oct06

Can I ‘Shrink’ My Exchange Database?

KB ID 0001706 Problem Saw this asked in a forum today, and my response was; It never gets smaller, if you delete things out of it, it just creates more ‘whitespace’ within the database, unless you; a) Take it offline, and defragment it using eseutil. b) Move the mailboxes out of it, to another database and delete it. Which is true, but even Microsoft say you should not need to defragment a database! Before you do anything...

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Event ID 3085
Nov17

Event ID 3085

KB ID 0000129 Problem Error – 1601 occurred while generating an outgoing replication message.  Type 0x4″ Solution There’s corruption in your public folder store, I see this during Exchange 2003 to 2007 Migrations, quite often some folders will replicate fine and other will not, and there is no rhyme or reason as to why. Then you see this error in the event log, essentially a couple of corrupt messages/items are...

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Event ID 2937
Nov17

Event ID 2937

KB ID 0000448  Problem Event ID 2937 Process edgetransport.exe () (PID=6156). Object [CN={mailbox database name},CN=Databases,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN={domain},CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC={domain},DC=com]. Property [PublicFolderDatabase] is set to value [{domain}.org/Configuration/Deleted Objects/Public Folder Store (EXCH2K3)...

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Sharing Files from Ubuntu to Windows
Nov17

Sharing Files from Ubuntu to Windows

KB ID 0000412 Problem If you have only a few files to share, you might want to consider using Dropbox, however if you want to share your files over the network then you need to install samba and configure it. Solution   Related Articles, References, Credits, or External Links Special Thanks to Morbuis1 Over at the Ubuntu Forms for the help. Samba Install Error  

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Outlook Error – ‘One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server’
Nov17

Outlook Error – ‘One or more users cannot be added to the folder access list. Non-local users cannot be given rights on this server’

KB ID 0000560  Problem Outlook will show you this error if you attempt to grant rights to a “distribution group” on an object for example, a public folder, or for calendar permissions. You would think that converting the “Universal Distribution Group” to a “Universal Security Group” would solve this problem, but it does not. Note: You may also see the following error, “an error occurred....

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