Issue Domain controllers fail to enroll for certificates. Following errors are logged in server application logs: Source: CertificateServicesClient-CertEnrollEvent ID: 13Level: ErrorDescription:Certificate enrollment for Local system failed to enroll for a DomainController certificate with request ID N/A from <Server FQDN>\<CA FQDN> (The RPC server is unavailable. 0x800706ba (WIN32: 1722)).

Issue Cannot install Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 Update Rollup 8 (the same issue is likely to affect older Rollup versions as well). Installation fails and following errors are recorded in Application and System logs. Event ID: 1024Level: ErrorSource: MsiInstallerDescription:Product: Microsoft Exchange Server – Update ‘Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2903903) 14.2.390.3’…

Was working on DELL PowerEdge 2950 server via iDRAC 5 console using Internet Explorer. To get into DELL RAID console you have to press CTRL + R during initial boot stages. Unfortunately CTRL + R is also a shortcut to refresh IE webpage. So instead of passing CTRL + R combination to the console, IE refreshes the page and…

Accessing DELL PowerEdge 2950 server via iDRAC 5 console using Internet Explorer 11 – console top menu is not active. i.e. if you click on Macros, nothing happens. I believe the same issue affects Internet Explorer 10. To resolve I had to enable IE Comparability View for the iDRAC IP address. In Internet Explorer 11 this can be…

Perform an offline defragmentation on Exchange database: Backup your Exchange database Dismount the database Open elevated command prompt and navigate to:C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\binor C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Bin Run: eseutil.exe /d “D:\path\database.edb” /t “D:\temp.edb”Where:“D:\path\database.edb” – path to database to defragment“D:\temp.edb” – path to temporary file (can be on different drive)

A simple task – once a week I need to copy certain folder to a NAS device. There are three devices and at any time only one of them is online. Following Windows PowerShell script will check if host is online and if it is, run the robocopy command. If the host is offline, it…

Recently had to open Microsoft Exchange 2010 mail database .edb file recovered from a recent backup. I didn’t actually need to recover any emails or mailboxes, simply view what emails were present in one particular folder at the time of backup.

Issue Cannot connect to a remote Microsoft Exchange 2010 Server server using Windows 7 Pro computer with Exchange Management Tools installed. Following message is displayed in Exchange Management Console window: Initialization failed.The World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC) isn’t running on any Exchange servers in the site. If you want to connect to Remote PowerShell, this service…

Issue Trying to copy a file from a network share to client machines using Group Policy (Computer Configuration > Preferences > Windows Settings > Files) Operation fails with error 0x80070005 Access is denied.

It’s not unusual for publicly accessible Remote Desktop (RDP) server to be constantly under brute force hacking attack. Although Windows security will delay unsuccessful login attempts making guessing non dictionary password pretty unlikely, it’s better not allow such password guessing in the first place. 2X SecureRDP is useful utility which helps to secure RDP servers. You can download it from here or from…

Environment Microsoft Windows Active Directory Windows Server 2003 Terminal Server (Remote Desktop) environment All users use read only mandatory profile Outlook 2010 installed only for purpose of opening .msg files Outlook 2010 configured with fake user account so new account wizard does not run when users try to open .msg files Issue When opening .msg…

Issue Send / Receive operation fails with error: Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object could not be found.’ Following error message gets saved in Sync Issues folder: 0x8004010F An object could not be found.