Technical Exchange bLog

When trying to install Exchange 2007 SP2 in a network where all domain controllers are Windows 2008 R2 version, setup fails with following error: [ERROR] Cannot find at least one domain controller running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later in domain 'DC=DCName,DC=com,DC=DCName'. This could be the result of moving domain controller objects in Active Directory. Check that at least one domain controller running Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 or later is located in the 'Domain Controllers' organizational unit (OU) and rerun setup. Download and extract Exchange 2007 SP2 to a local hard drive. Download the updated ExBPA.PreReqs.xml and ExBPA.Readiness.xml files [ click here for download ] Save the files to your local hard drive Locate ExBPA.PreReqs.xml and ExBPA.Readiness.Xml files which were extracted from the Exchange 2007 SP2 download. The default location is "Setup\ServerRoles\Common\<language>". Rename original XML files to...

When installing Exchange 2007 on Windows Server 2008 R2 (probably the same error exists on Windows 2008), you get error that doesn’t contain descriptive information: Error: The system cannot find the file specified "Warning: An unexpected error has occurred and debug information is being generated: The system cannot find the file specified"   What you need to do is run: ServerManagerCmd –i RSAT-ADD In Windows 2008 R2 you run: Import-Module Servermanager to load Server Manager modules Add-WindowsFeature RSAT-ADDS

I found an interesting problem in Exchange 2007 SP2 Outlook Web Access. Since I had problems with mail flow, all the mails that I sent went to the drafts folder. When I tried to delete mails from drafts folder it deleted two, and after clicking delete button one more time it restored all previously deleted mails. Check video…

Microsoft published a web page with the details about support policies and recommendations for virtualized Exchange servers. For all of you that are using virtualized Exchange servers, it’s worth reading the article. Article can be found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794548.aspx

I recently had a problem with virtualized Exchange 2007 SP1 with CAS role installed and NLB enabled. Exchange is installed on top of Windows Server 2008 and two network cards were added to configuration. One network card for Outlook Anywhere on port 443 in NLB and the other card for other traffic and server management. After some time one of the virtualized Exchange 2007 servers started to reboot unexpectedly without any useful information in event logs. Since I had many problems with NLB in my career I thought that maybe Hyper-V and NLB are not working well together. During the search for error I ran into Rob Whitehouse’s blog post in which he posted the link to Microsoft’s knowledge base article with exactly the same error/problem I got. Microsoft provided a hotfix for this error that was described with following symptoms: You are running a Windows Server 2008 virtual machine in the Hyper-V environment on a Windows Server 2008 host computer. You try to create a new...

Microsoft published a web site that helps you calculate savings after you virtualize given number of the servers within your company. The calculator can be found at http://www.hyper-green.com/