by edward | Dec 21, 2012 | Exchange 2010
The UPS at my remote site went down taking down all servers. After bringing up the DC first and then Exchange, Exchange was giving event id 2601, 2604, 2501 every 15 minutes. I ran NLTest /DSGetSite from Powershell (you can use command prompt as well) and it gave the...
by edward | Dec 21, 2012 | Windows Server 2008 R2
I installed updates and rebooted my DC in a remote site only to find out that terminal services was ended but the actual server did not reboot. I ran shutdown -i from another machine and got the famous reply: 1115 A system shutdown is in progress. I...
by edward | Dec 21, 2012 | Windows Server 2012
As part of my cleanup and decommission of Small Business Server 2003 I installed RRAS on my Windows Server 2012 DC. First thing I did was to give the server a bit more memory, being a virtual server quite easy to do. Second thing was to add additional NIC’s to...
by edward | Dec 20, 2012 | Exchange 2010, ESET File Security, ESET Mail Security for Exchange
Today I installed a new Anti-Virus product on my Exchange Servers, ESET. The nice thing with ESET is that it automatically sets exclusions as it detects what is installed, so on my servers Exchange, IIS and Windows Server exclusions were set. However, Microsoft...
by edward | Dec 19, 2012 | Exchange 2010
Microsoft released the updated version of this Rollup a few days ago. I have installed it in my lab where I initially had Rollup 5 i installed and after rebooting all the DAG related errors and Topology errors have disappeared and Exchange 2010 is now as happy as can...
