Issue Website /application hosted on IIS 6 takes around 5-6 seconds to load first page if it hasn’t been accessed for a while. Solution Open IIS manager > Application Pools > DefaultAppPool > Properties > Performance Uncheck “Shutdown worker processes after being idle for (time in minutes)” under Idle timeout

Issue Uninstall of Exchange 2007 fails with error: The public folder database <database_name> cannot be deleted.The public folder database  <database_name> contains folder replicas. Before deleting the public folder database, remove the folders or move the replicas to another public folder database.

Issue While decommissioning old Exchange 2007 server, Exchange uninstall failed with following error: Object is read only because it was created by a future version of Exchange: 0.10. Current supported version is 0.1. Trying to remove Public Folder Database via Exchange Management Console (EMC) also failed with the same error. Solution Resolved by removing the…

Group Policy Results Wizard on Windows Server 2003 fails with error: The wizard was unable to generate the Group Policy data due to the error listed below. access denied. Fixed by running following in command prompt: cd /d %windir%\system32regsvr32 /n /I userenv.dllcd wbemmofcomp scersop.mofgpupdate /force Windows Small Business Server 2003

Installing WSUS 3.0 SP2 on a new Windows Server 2008 R2 (via Add Roles console). WSUS role requires IIS 6, therefore Web Server (IIS) role is automatically added as well. After completing the wizard and clicking install, following error is displayed: One or more of the following roles, role services, or features failed to installWindows…

Some Windows 7 machines stopped updating. Trying to run Windows Update manually returned following error:   Windows could not search for new updates.An error occurred while checking for new updates for your computerError(s) found: Code 800B0001Windows Update encouraged an unknown error This only affected updates from WSUS server. Checking updates directly from Microsoft Update worked…

This issue occurred while I was testing Consumer Preview version of Outlook 2013. It could have been complete coincidence as issue seems to be caused by Exchange 2010 rather than Outlook. Gave myself Full Access Permissions to couple of mailboxes and opened them as usual via Account Properties > Advanced > Advanced > Add… After…

During Exchange 2007 to 2010 migration some mailbox move operations fails with error: Active Directory operation failed on domain-controller-name. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation.Active directory response: 00002098: SecErr: DSID-03150BB9, problem 4003 (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS), data 0The user has insufficient access rights. This error is similar to one described…

Have been playing with New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet exporting emails for specific date ranges and found what looks like Exchange Management Shell bug. On Exchange 2010 SP2 server with UK English region run following command: New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -ge ’01/05/2012′) -and (Received -le ’01/06/2012′)} -Mailbox “user.name” -FilePath “\\server\share\username.pst” Everything works as expected and all May 2012 emails…

Trying to run New-MailboxExportRequest cmdlet on Exchange 2010 SP1 or later and getting following error.The term ‘New-MailboxExportRequest’ is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. The most likely reason is that your user account doesn’t have Mailbox Import Export role. To add it run: New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Role “Mailbox Import…

Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP1 introduces new cmdlets to export and import mailbox data: New-MailboxExportRequest New-MailboxImportRequest This replaces previous Export-Mailbox cmdlet and the main advantage is that new methods don’t require you to run Outlook in order to import and export to .pst files. To export whole mailbox run:New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox “user.name” -FilePath “\\server\share\user.name.pst” To export only…

Background Customer is using Symantec Backup Exec 2010 Small Business Server Suite to perform daily data and Exchange backups. Backups are saved to two rotating NAS devices. One of them is kept off-site and devices are manually swapped every Friday. Issue User has to open Backup Exec and manually select which device is online, which…