Recreating the public folder hierarchy in active directory with adsiedit
Often appens that, after the dismission of a legacy Exchange server, Users are no longer able to access the public folders despite they have been correctly migrated to new servers. If you have the certainty of having successfully migrated the data / messages in the public folder you can rest easy, you have not lost anything, the problem lies only […]
Exchange mail enabled public folders don’t receive emails after 2003 to 2010 migration
It happened to me a couple of times, after the migration of public folders from an Exchange 2003 server to an Exchange Server 2010 mail enabled public folders would stop receiving emails following the complete disposal of the 2003 server (soon after its uninstallation). All email destined for public folder remained […]
Exchange 2010 EMC keeps connecting to a no more existing domain controller
If you happen not to be able to manage your exchange infrastructure and receive this error in the Exchange Management Console: “An Active Directory error 0x51 occured when trying to check the suitability of server ‘OLD_DC_NAME’. Error: ‘Active Directory response: The LDAP server is unavailable.’” every time you try to read information regarding […]
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 […]
vSphere client 5.5 “Use Windows session credentials” error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect username or password
I got a couple of times this error: trying to login to vcenter using the vsphere client with the option “Use Windows session credentials” an error of incorrect user/password is returned even if the credentials are correct. In many blogs (http://vinfrastructure.it/it/2014/01/problemi-nellautenticazione-in-vsphere-con-credenziali-di-dominio/) and vmware kb (http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2035510) dicono che l’errore si risolve ricreando l’active […]
How to renew the self-signed certificate from ADFS and Office365 and how to enable the auto renewal
If you have set up ADFS (active directory federation services) to authenticate the users of your domain in Office365 you know that to maintain communication between your adfs service and Office365 you need a certificate that is trusted from both servers / services / sides. Obviously you can use certificates generated from a public CA, Also returning […]
Exchange 2003: “One or more users currently use a mailbox store on this server”
Hands up who has managed to migrate an Exchange 2003 without getting an error of some resource (mailbox, public folder, oab generator ) still present on the legacy server being uninstalled. What I speak about is a typical error, and indicates that there is still some user whose mailbox resides on […]
Local move request from exchange 2003 to 2010 error (INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS)
One of the most common problems that you can encounter during an Exchange migration is the error in the process of moving a mailbox from the legacy Exchange to the new one, This is the most classic error: “Error: Active Directory operation failed on server.nomedominio.local. This error is not retriable. Additional information: Insufficient access rights to perform the operation. […]
