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...
Exchange 2003 – Defragmenting Your Database with Eseutil
KB ID 0000814 Problem I don’t have many clients left that still have Exchange 2003, so this will probably be the last time I have to do this (famous last words). Exchange databases NEVER get smaller, if you delete information out of them, it simply creates white space, that Exchange will reuse, (so they will steadily grow in size). Before you carry out this procedure, get your users to clear down their mailbox’s. Also...
Juniper SRX – ‘The Routing Subsystem Is Not Running’
KB ID 0001045 Problem While trying to deploy Solarwinds to monitor a Juniper SRX failover cluster, we were having no joy connecting to the management interface of the secondary/standby firewall. The management (fxp0) interface on the primary (node0) firewall we could get to OK. ] After jumping on the secondary firewall (via the console connection) we observed the following; error: the routing subsystem is not running Solution As you...
HP and Cisco – VLANs and Trunks Confusion!
KB ID 0000741 Problem When I first started in IT, I went and did my Cisco CCNA. So I learned that to connect Cisco switches and pass VLAN traffic between them, I needed to create a ‘Trunk’ to pass the VLAN traffic. Fast forward a few years, and I now work for an HP reseller. Very early on I came to realise that what HP called a ‘trunk’ was very different from what I had been taught. Below is an article I did a...
Cannot Logon to HP System Management Homepage
KB ID 0000580 Problem This used to quite common when attempting to contact the HP Management Homepage, (or the local insight manager page) you can no longer get access. ERROR: Username and password do not match Solution With much older versions of the Systems Management Homepage (before it used domain user names and passwords) you could simply copy over the CPQHMMD.DLL file from a server you knew the password for, and then you could...