My experience with microsoft online proctored exam
The 30th of December I took, for the first time, a microsoft online exam directly from home without having to go into one of the pearson vue centers. The solution is definitely very convenient if you do not have an examination centre at your fingertips (the one closest to my house is a 40-minute drive). one […]
Uninstall exchange 2003 Error 0x80072030 (8240): There is no such object on the server
If you get an error like this during uninstallation of a 2003 exchange: “0x80072030 (8240): There is no such object on the server” It is because in the process of uninstalling some organization information is not found; in my case what was missing was the container of the recipient update services (I had just before I deleted […]
Useful commands for managing public folders
In recent days I fought a lot in trying to properly fix public folder replicas (probably the worst managed service run by exchange) so I decided to write an article with the commands that have been helpful to me to configure, check and force replication of the public folder. After Exchange 2013 migration of public […]
GPO Start the default browser on a specified page at user logon
The easiest way I've found to start at user logon the default browser (firefox in my case) and open a default page was to create a simple script to be executed at the user logon through a group policy. The script is really simple, It must be a .bat run the command […]
Create exchange distribution group based on security group in exchange
This is a request that customers often ask me: how to create a distribution group in exchange based on a security group as, very often, there is the need to send mail to a group of users who hold the same role and that probably, for organization and for managing access to the file server, are […]
Remove unknown SID from public folder permissions exchange 2013
This is a powershell script to remove the permission about unknown SID/Users from public folders recursively ; maybe it happens to deal with customers with hundreds of public folder (argh!!!!) and to find some users in the permissions that are unknown as in this case: To delete all the SID […]
NtFrs SYSVOL replication problems
I decided to write this long post because I hope it'll come useful to someone because this problem has made me crazy for nearly two days!!!! And the bad thing is that I have found virtually no documentation / solution / comments on the internet that have been helpful (apart from one!). I had to complete an upgrade of […]
Exchange 2013 reverse proxy with IIS + Application Request Routing
If you are looking for an easy way to set up a reverse proxy for not directly publish your CAS on the internet and maybe place it in a DMZ to expose a not domain joined machine, the couple IIS + Application Request Routing (ARR) can do the trick. MRA can also be used to make […]