IM an Expert is an instant messaging question and answer service that you can set up within your organization. With the IM an Expert service, you can use Microsoft Lync or the IM an Expert Welcome page to submit a question to the service. The IM an Expert service will locate an expert for you within your company and initiate an IM session between you and the expert who can answer your question.
Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=01fd2b2b-d780-4d6f-8e1e-54b2ad718f2b&displaylang=en
Documentation link: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8E4546AA-9B24-435D-9043-A2181B4E6D06&displaylang=en
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Anderson Patricio
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Hi folks,
There are two Live Meeting available to help in the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 exams, as follows:
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Anderson Patricio
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http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
Hi folks,
This morning I had a mission to fix up a lab that was created a couple of weeks ago and basically the members of the DAG weren't able to have their services online, Exchange Management Console didn't open up, initialization of those servers were really slow and so forth.
Well, my first line of thought was Jess.. they screwed up DNS and bob is your uncle.. Let's get the DNS up and running and we will be fine but it turned out that DNS was okay (not optimal but was okay).
So, since it was a lab, I cleaned up and saved all log files on the file system and restarted the machine before doing that I made sure that DNS was pointing out to the DC (it was a single DC).
As soon as I restart the server and it took a considerable amount of time during this process, after I got access to the console my first tests were:
- Nslookup (I got a time out which means that reverse zone wasn't configured properly)
- Tested \\servername
Result: Good, I could see both folders netlogon and sysvol no authetnication issues
- Set L
Result: Good, I could see that the server was in fact autheticating against the DC
- Gpudpate /foce
Result: Good, just in case to make sure that the server was receiving the GPO
- Checked if the server belongs to Exchange SErvers group
REsult: Good
Okay, I went to DNS and I fixed the DNS reverse zone, not a big deal and that wasn't the root cause of my current issues. Then, I opened my Event Viewer and I saw the following errors on the application:
- Event ID 2142: Process MSExchangeADTopologyService.EXE (PID=1372). Topology discovery failed, error 0x8007077f.
- Event ID 1121: Error 0xfaf connecting to Active Directory.
- Event ID 5000: Unable to initialize the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service. - Error 0xfaf.
Okay, that's it LAB won the first round... :) and my wife was alreadycalling asking if I would be home at 5PM (In some circunstances that is more pressure than a couple of critical servers down :) )
I started to think about enabling logging and all sort of crazy things but usually the majority of the issues are simple things, right? Who hasn't ever thought several solutions for an issue and turned out that the real issue was just disk space?
Well, that was the issue here I went to Active Directory sites and SErvices and I noticed that the environment had no Subnets configured and two sites created and that was creating confusion on my lab.
The solution was simple, I assigned the IP range being used by the lab to one of the sites and restart the all thing and here we go, AD Topology working like a charm and all services booting up without any issues.
Of course that is not the solution for all Event ID 5000, 1121 and 2142 but the lesson learned Today is make sure that you do your home work before starting troubleshooting like a maniac :)
I hope it helps and have a good weekend!
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
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Twitter: @apatricio
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Hi folks,
Update Rollup 3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 resolves issues that were found in Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 since the software was released. This update rollup is highly recommended for all Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 customers.
For a list of changes that are included in this update rollup, see KB2492690.
Download it from here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=413b8979-76b8-4be4-a18b-015d025eb368&displaylang=en
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio
Hi folks,
In this second article of the series we go over more options related to Forefront Script Kit, bear in mind that when I wrote this article the console wasn't available but anyway the article about the console is ready to be published as well, stay tuned ! :)
Here is the link: http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2010/management-administration/using-forefront-script-kit-forefront-protection-exchange-server-part2.html
Cheers,
Anderson Patricio
http://msmvps.org/Blog/AndersonPatricio
http://www.andersonpatricio.org
Twitter: @apatricio