Exchange 2010
Exchange 2010 Mail Queue – 451 4.4.0 DNS Query Error
If you come across the following error it is because Exchange cant query the domain. If you ping the domain name it will give you an error saying it cannot find it. Simple fix, under organization management -> Hub Transport -> Send Connector, right click on your...
Exchange 2010 Database Copy Status in a Failed State.
Prerequisites ListAdmin access to be able to manage Mailbox Databases in Exchange.EMC or Exchange Management Shell.If you running an Exchange DAG and the copy status is sitting in a failed state you can reseed the Database.You first need to run the following command...
SeSecurityPrivilege privilege Error when installing Exchange 2010 SP2 Hub Transport Role
Today while installing a new Exchange Server to create a DAG (Database Availability Group) I ran into the following error below: First thing that I checked was that the domainExchange Servers was part of the following Manage Auditing and Security Log. Computer...
Event ID 2107 Exchange 2010
Today after a power failure at my other site (yes power drops a lot) I noticed that after the main DC came back online that Exchange was complaining it could not see the DC. Normally the Topology for Exchange should be CDG177101171 it was showing CDG10010000. I went...
DPM 2012 & ESEUTIL for Exchange 2010
Having multiple sites I look after and having Exchange 2010 running in each site the last thing you want to do is backup a corrupted Exchange 2010 Database. The nice thing with DPM is that you can run ESEUTIL and this ensures that everything on the Database is in a...
Power Outage causes Exchange 2010 to list Event ID 2601, 2604, 2501
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...
Exchange 2010 SP2 and Anti-Virus
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...
Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 5v2
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...
Exchange 2010 SP2 Rollup 5
Recently MS released Rollup 5 for Exchange 2010 SP2, I downloaded this version and ran an update on my test servers, the update was then pulled from MS site due to DAG issues and topology errors. I have seen these errors in my own environment. Hopefully MS will...
Exchange 2010 and Hyper-V 3 VHDX disks
So i decided to installed another Hyper-V server using Windows Server 2012 and i created another Exchange server to add to my DAG. I thought using .VHDX VM's is great because of all the new features. Upon connecting the newly created Exchange 2010 server to the...