SonicWALL Failover and Load Balancing features work pretty well. Actually so well, that you may end up with one of your WAN links being down without realising it for days! To prevent this, you can setup an email alert to notify you whenever a failover event occurs. Go to Log > Automation Enter your email address in…

Open IIS (Internet Information Services) Manager Console Select Default Web Site and double click on HTTP Redirect  Check “Redirect requests to this destination” box and enter your OWA https address where you want to redirect to.i.e. https://webmail.company.com/owa Select “Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)“ In “Status Code” select “Found (302)“ Open…

In Windows Active Directory Domain, the default authoritative time server is the server holding PDC Emulator (primary domain controller emulator) FSMO role. To find out which server holds PDC Emulator role run: netdom query fsmo Windows Server 2003Windows Server 2008Windows Server 2012  

Microsoft Outlook Personal Stationary feature allows to apply a template for all new emails. This can be enabled in File > Options > Mail > Stationary and Fonts >  Personal Stationary > Theme.  Outlook themes are standard HTML files and are stored in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery (on 32bit machines); or C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\Stationery…

Issue Windows Server 2012 machine fails to find and install any updates. Windows Update displays following error: Windows could not search for new updatesThere was a problem checking for updates.Error(s) found: Code800B0001 Windows Update ran into a problem.

Default Windows Server 2012 reboot after Windows Update is truly baffling. The server installs updates at night and then waits for a user/administrator to login (which normally happens in a middle of working day). As soon as logged-on you get a non-cancelable 15 minutes warning until server restarts! This can make some sense on client machines, but…

Issue Apple Mail would not send large emails via an Exchange account hosted on MS Exchange 2007 server. Activity window would show Sending message / Adding messages for a few minutes. Then email would just sit in Outbox until deleted. No errors or warnings… These emails were 8-9 MB in size, well below maximum message…

Issue Symantec Backup Exec 2010 update service does not work (Tools > LiveUpdate…).Getting following error: Symantec Backup Exec for Windows ServersSymantec LiveUpdate is not installed. Scheduled updates to Backup Exec cannot be retrieved without LiveUpdate. You must reinstall LiveUpdate to schedule updates. Symantec LiveUpdate also doesn’t appear in Control Panel > Programs and Features.  

Issue Cannot install Symantec Backup Exec “Remote Agent for Windows System” on 64bit Windows 7 client PCs (pushed from the Symantec Backup Exec Media Server). Installation fails with an error on the Media Server: Install failed with error code 1603. Right click on the server to view logs for more information. Install logs reveal following…

Issue Windows Server 2012 server with RD Web and RD gateway roles. Remote Windows 7 client trying to login to a workstation via RD Web website User can successfully login to the RD Web (Work Resources) website. However, secondary login to the actual Remote Desktop Gateway fails with error: Windows SecurityThe logon attempt failed

Windows SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007 SP3. Items deleted from Exchange Server Public Folders are kept for a number of days configured in Public Folder Mailbox Database Properties: To recover deleted items, download, extract and run PFDAVAdmin tool (full name “Exchange Server Public Folder Distributed Authoring and Versioning (DAV)-based Administration tool“). You can download it…

Issue Newly setup Remote Desktop Web Access service with RD Web Access, RD Gateway and RD Session Host roles located on the same server. Everything was working during testing a day before, but next morning external users couldn’t connect to remote computers via the Remote Desktop Web Access website. Internally everything was working fine. Error…