Rant Space https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/feed.xml Tue, 16 Apr 2019 05:56:09 GMT en-US hourly 1 OWA address book searches displaying hidden users https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/owa-address-book-searches-displaying-hidden-users Mon, 07 Dec 2009 01:20:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/12/07/owa-address-book-searches-displaying-hidden-users/ Bit of an odd one, if your E2k7 address books have hidden entries, and you have several address books (you should be using HMC!) you may find hidden users appear in searches in the GAL in OWA but not when scrolling.

 

Depending on what you set the msExchQueryBaseDN  to you will get different behaviour.

Typically this is either null or set to the OU the users sit in. Setting this to the Address books DN you want the users to see gives the desired behaviour.

Can be a bit of a big change so do test this one!

]]> Installing the Windows Mobile Emulator. Shortcuts dont appear on the Start Menu https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/installing-the-windows-mobile-emulator-shortcuts-dont-appear-on-the-start-menu Thu, 05 Nov 2009 08:54:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/11/05/installing-the-windows-mobile-emulator-shortcuts-dont-appear-on-the-start-menu/ I cant claim this, thanks Mike.

Saved us some pain.

After the install of the WM image itself of the emulator (6, 6.1, 6.5 etc) it all appears to work but there is nothing on the Start Menu for it. This makes it difficult (but not impossible for the patient) to fire up the emulator.

Rerunning the image install again and doing a Repair seems then to go through and add in the shortcuts as we'd like

HTH

]]> services not starting because they are timeing out prematurely? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/services-not-starting-because-they-are-timeing-out-prematurely Thu, 05 Nov 2009 06:02:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/11/05/services-not-starting-because-they-are-timeing-out-prematurely/ most likely in a repro/vm setup where resources are the limiting factor?

 extend service startup tolerance with

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System \CurrentControlSet \Control]
ServicesPipeTimeout = "30000"

60000 by default in w2k3. set in ms

]]> OWA not working and showing red Xs instead of the images? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/owa-not-working-and-showing-red-xs-instead-of-the-images Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:01:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/11/04/owa-not-working-and-showing-red-xs-instead-of-the-images/ it is possible for the IUSR anonymous auth account password to get out of sync between where its held in AD and the metabase

you can test this by unchecking anonymous auth on default website and exchweb and enabling IWA

 stop and start the default website

does IWA auth work with OWA?

 

if so the password for anonymous auth are out of sync

 https://support.microsoft.com/kb/297989 helps getting them back in sync

]]> E2k3 PF hierarchy or content not replicating in or out of a particular server. Using Sophos Pure Message? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/e2k3-pf-hierarchy-or-content-not-replicating-in-or-out-of-a-particular-server-using-sophos-pure-message Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:42:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/08/17/e2k3-pf-hierarchy-or-content-not-replicating-in-or-out-of-a-particular-server-using-sophos-pure-message/ We've had a couple of cases where Subject tagging in the product has caused PFs to stop moving out the server.

The way we found this was quite typical for a PF case...

Use diagnostic logging on the server in question for PF and the IS objects

Find the message in the events logged

Track the message and found it only gets as far as the Categorizer.

This led me to some previous cases where PureMessage can cause this if subject tagging is on

Hope that helps somone!

 

]]> OWA E2k3 stops working with 503 Service unavailable https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/owa-e2k3-stops-working-with-503-service-unavailable Fri, 31 Jul 2009 04:55:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/07/31/owa-e2k3-stops-working-with-503-service-unavailable/ Looking at the IIS logs this specifically is a 503 0 0 on the get verb on Exchange virtual directory

This KB helps here https://support.microsoft.com/kb/823159 

Found a couple of instances of needing HKCRScan and this finding a key that is problematic (contact MS support for this tool)

They typically start Nxxxxxxxxx

Perhaps put in by NetApp? At least ive seen them put in by NetApp

]]> Perfmon Counters appear as numbers https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/perfmon-counters-appear-as-numbers Thu, 16 Jul 2009 08:57:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/07/16/perfmon-counters-appear-as-numbers/ Odd this one, not sure how it happened but it did.

Looks like the perfc009.dat is corrupt (file that contains the counters)

Get the file (system32 i seem to recall) from a similar OS machine, backup the broken one and copy in a good one.

Try perfmon now

 

 

]]> How do OCS Address books work, and why is mine broken? https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/how-do-ocs-address-books-work-and-why-is-mine-broken Wed, 13 May 2009 06:30:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/05/13/how-do-ocs-address-books-work-and-why-is-mine-broken/ That is a very good question...

A great link i eventually was able to get is at

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb963980.aspx

 So...

AD has all the info

The user replicator shifts this info to the OCS SQL DB in the ABUserEntry table

The ABServer process moves these files to a NTFS files structure in the form of Full and Differential files with names that are hex of a date that once happened :S

These are then made available through IIS where the client will download these to galcontacts.db

Saying that info is still pulled from OL contacts and also in some instances direct LDAP requests are made to the OCS pool itself

]]> Setting up a quick OCS 2007 test environment https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/setting-up-a-quick-ocs-2007-test-environment Fri, 08 May 2009 11:46:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/05/08/setting-up-a-quick-ocs-2007-test-environment/ Perhaps virtualised for testing?

Physical HW is obviously better

Two W2k3 or W2k8 boxes

Configure TCPIP appropriately on the two machines so they can chat using static IPs

Name machines appropriately

Promote one to a DC

DC is a DNS server

Install CA services on the CA

On OCS server install OCS 2007 Standard Edition, this will give a good test bed on minimum machines (assuming this is for repro/testing only!)

Install IIS as per prompt in OCS wizard

Install AD tools as per prompt in OCS wizard

This will install SQL and all the necessary components

When installed and the services are strarted the Monitoring service may not start, if not you may need to install the Message Queuing Feature

Start the relevant services

Install Admin tools as per OCS setup Wizard

Create a couple of users, Enable them for OCS

Use the Validation wizard to do some testing, they should be able to sign in

Install OCS client

Set to Manual Config and point to the OCS server (FQDN) and set to TLS

For Auto sign in and other DNS records necessary watch this nice little video... https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/office/ocs/dd221358.aspx

Setup your DNS entries and you should now be able to autosign in!

]]> Windows Mobile not syncing with HTTP 500 internal server error and nextags showing problems with syncstate table https://docs.microsoft.com/archive/blogs/andym/windows-mobile-not-syncing-with-http-500-internal-server-error-and-nextags-showing-problems-with-syncstate-table Thu, 07 May 2009 10:02:00 GMT https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/andym/2009/05/07/windows-mobile-not-syncing-with-http-500-internal-server-error-and-nextags-showing-problems-with-syncstate-table/ Odd one this, it seems a couple of the reasons this can be seen are down to a corrupt syncstate table, for whatever reason..

Also if we hit problems with limits on named properties we may fail with an internal server error 500 if something like iphone is adding further named props and Exchange has hit a limit on these. But to be honest if youre at the stage where youre dealving into nextags logging you might be in a good place to give us at support a call!

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