Category: Servers

Issue Emails sent from a shared mailbox (users have full access and send as permissions) are saved only in user’s sent items folder, but not in shared mailbox sent items. Resolution Connect of Office 365 via PowerShell and run following command: set-mailbox <mailbox name> -MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled $True To check status of the MessageCopyForSentAsEnabled property: Get-Mailbox Sharedmailbox1 | select…

Connect to PowerShell to Office 365 To disable Focused Inbox run: Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $false To enable Focused Inbox run: Set-OrganizationConfig -FocusedInboxOn $true To check Focused Inbox status: Get-OrganizationConfig (look near the bottom)

Issue Applying folder redirection to Documents and other folders fails when Group Policy is trying to automatically create required folders. Following error is logged in Application Logs on client PCs: Event ID: 502Level: ErrorDescription: Failed to apply policy and redirect folder “Documents” to “\\Server-Name\Redirected\user.name\Documents”. Redirection options=0x1021. The following error occurred: “Can not create folder “\\Server-Name\Redirected\user.name\Documents””. Error…

If you allow Google Chrome on your network, you can customise and configure various settings via Group Policy.   

Issue Converting VMware vmdk disks to Hyper–V vhdx using Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter 3.0 PowerShell module (ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk) fails with error: ConvertTo-MvmcVirtualHardDisk : The entry 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 is not a supported disk database entry for the descriptor…

Issue Server Administrator forgot / lost APC PowerChute password and can no longer access UPS software.

Issue Outlook rule that performs action “have server reply using a specific message” doesn’t work properly. The reply gets delivered for internal senders, but never reaches external senders. Email server is running Microsoft Exchange 2010.

Issue Relaying email via Office 365 suddenly stopped working. Relayed emails were sent from a Windows 2012 Server using a simple PowerShell script. After logging in to the server and running the PowerShell script in an interactive mode following error was displayed: Exception calling “Send” with “1” argument(s): “Mailbox unavailable. The server response was: 5.7.1…

Issue Trying to move a virtual machine from one Hyper-V 2016 host to another while running Hyper-V Management Tools from a separate management server. Following error is displayed shortly after starting the move operation: There was an error during move Operation.Virtual machine migration Operation failed at migration source.Failed to establish a connection with host “DESTINATION-SERVER”:…

Issue Trying to move a virtual machine between Hyper-V 2016 hosts. Following error is displayed: Live migrations are not enabled on this computer.This computer is not configured for live migration of virtual machines. To enable live migration, modify the Hyper-V settings.

If you try to remove the default mailbox database in Exchange 2016 EAC (Exchange Admin Center) you may get following error: This mailbox database contains one or more mailboxes, mailbox plans, archive mailboxes, public folder mailboxes or arbitration mailboxes, Audit mailboxes, To get a list of almailboxes in this database, run the command Get-Mailbox -Database <Database ID>.…

There are few ways to enable HTTP to HTTP redirect on IIS websites. In this example I will use URL Rewrite method. If your don’t already have it download and install IIS URL Rewrite extension.