Exchange 2013 clients get disconnected – The Microsoft Exchange RPC Client Access service terminated unexpectedly
This is a problem that occurred from time to time to a customer with an Exchange 2013 infrastructure consisting of 1 CAS and 2 Mailbox servers. Sometimes, about 1 time per month but sometimes even more frequently, They occurred disconnections by the client whose mailbox was present on one of the mailbox […]
Exchange 2013 enable forward on a mailbox without using contacts
To set up forwarding to an external address on any Exchange 2013 mailbox, you can go to the mailbox properties and configure mailbox features -> mail flow -> enable forwarding. The problem is that the GUI will not allow you to enter a simple address to forwarding to the mail, but you can only configure […]
Get mail enabled public folder list on Exchange 2013
Here are two lines of powershell code to get the list of mail enabled public folders in Exchange 2013, I found a lot of examples around the net, some working but complex other not working at all, others gave back a list in text format but not the real objects… in the end I have put together a few to get […]
Migrating Exchange 2007 -> 2013 “The mailbox server is responsible for generating an Offline Address Book”
When decommissioning an Exchange server 2007 following a migration to Exchange 2013 is likely that you will see this message: The error is clear, you can not uninstall an Exchange server that is responsible for the generation and distribution of an offline address book, so you will first check that all […]
Microsoft online proctored exams
Recently you no longer need to travel to a pearson vue test center to take the Microsoft certification exams. It is in fact beeing enabled the opportunity to take online and supervised exams (Supervised means that you'll have to equip yourself with a webcam through which you will be precisely supervised by a person to prevent someone performs the examination on behalf […]
Windows 8 cisco vpn client connects but the vpn does not work, pptp error code 720
A “big” problem happened to me over the last month: unexpectedly (I suspect it was some microsoft update) the cisco vpn client stopped working, or better, the client was connected but I could not reach anything on the customer's network, What's even more strange routes created were correct but if […]
How to create an authenticated SMTP in Exchange 2013
In this article, I described how to create an authenticated SMTP in Exchange 2007/2010: http://www.itxperience.net/come-creare-un-smtp-autenticato-in-exchange/ On exchange in 2013 the procedure is similar…. but with a small difference! In addition to the configuration that you can find in the article that I linked, you have to make a further change: you must run the Get-ReceiveConnector "Name of the connector" | Add-ADPermission -ExtendedRights:ms-Exch-SMTP-Accept-Any-Sender -user “NT AUTHORITYAuthenticated Users” anche […]
How to install Windows 8 from USB stick
Not long ago I wrote an article about how to install Windows 8 directly from the network without using media, since the topic seems to be of interest I decided to write a post about how to install Windows 8 from a USB stick. In fact, the procedure is good for install from USB stick also windows 2008, windows 2012… etc […]