June 2009 - Posts

Mon, Jun 29 2009 14:07

McAfee and SMTP Traffic

I've been chasing after an issue with a new Exchange deployment not sending any outbound mail. When you telnet to port 25 on any SMTP server it just fails straight away as if there's a firewall or something in between. I finally got a network...
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Fri, Jun 12 2009 18:20

Windows 2008 Schema Update - INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS

If you're trying to import an LDIF file with some schema changes on a Windows Server 2008 (or Vista) machine and it bails with an access denied error and an INSUFF_ACCESS_RIGHTS messag, first make sure your account is in the Schema Admins group. Second...
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Sun, Jun 7 2009 15:24

Windows Firewall Rules for Data Protection Manager

I've had the pleasure of trying to reverse engineer the firewall requirements DPM has since they've declined to document any of this in a useful fashion. My experience so far is that this product does something very slick with Exchange and brings...
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Sun, Jun 7 2009 4:21

Editing Group Policies without ADUC or GPMC

Under Windows Server 2003 (and 2000), Active Directory Users and Computers was always available by just launching dsa.msc. From there you could use the legacy Group Policy management interface if you didn't have the GPMC loaded. Windows Server 2008...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009 22:50

Upgrading Anti-Virus Rules for Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers

KB article 822158 does a good job covering all of the antivirus exclusions for Windows machines as well as for domain controllers in particular. If you're upgrading domain controllers to Windows Server 2008 or better, be sure to update your anti-virus...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009 22:11

McAfee EPO Setup SQL Failure

If you're trying to install McAfee EPO (ePolicy Orchestrator) 4.0 and setup is failing when it tries to connect to your SQL Server with a variety of worthless errors, be sure that the server name you specify matches the result of this SQL query exactly...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009 22:01

Exchange Databases Fail to Mount with 0x97E

If you run into a scenario where your Exchange databases are failing to mount with either of these errors, first reference this Technet article . Assuming that doesn't apply then manually start the System Attendant (MSExchangeSA) service on the machine...
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Sat, Jun 6 2009 16:04

Resuming a Failed Exchange 2007 Setup

If you've ever had Exchange 2007 setup fail partially, you've probably noticed that some of the components (maybe even the one it failed during) show up as installed, but, if you run the ExBPA (Best Practices Analyzer), it will probably complain...
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