400 Bad Request Error attempting to Change Password via OWA

Issue: When users attempt to change their password via OWA they are redirected to "https://exchange/owa/lang.owa" and then receive an http "400 Bad Request" After clicking "ok" user received "Bad Request" in the browser: Cause: Users experiencing the issue are showing blank Time Zone and Language settings: You query the same settings for users that do not have the change password issue and determine their Time Zone and Language settings are populated: Resolution: 1) It's Read more [...]

Search All Users Mailboxes for specific content in Discovery situation

LEGAL DISCOVERY: The administrator needs a way to extract messages from multiple users' mailboxes which contain certain keywords in the subject and/or body for Legal Discovery purposes. In this case, the content found should not be deleted, but only extracted to a single target mailbox.  I will provide solutions for both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010. Exchange 2007 Solution:  In Exchange 2007, The administrator will need to use the Export-Mailbox task from the Exchange Management Shell with Read more [...]

Exchange Discovery Search broken: discovery mailbox can’t be found

Issue: At one of my customers, the Discovery Search feature of Exchange stopped working when performing searches from EMC.  This error may be displayed: Cause:  I determined this may be due to the System Mailbox or Discovery Search mailbox being deleted, modified, or damaged. Taking inventory:   1) Confirm both the System Mailbox and Discovery Search Mailbox exist in AD and Exchange:  "SystemMailbox{e0dc1c29-89c3-4034-b678-e6c29d823ed9}".  If one or both is missing then it's clear Read more [...]

Ironport LDAP query to IBM Notes / Domino

Issue: You need to configure your Ironport to run LDAP queries against your IBM Lotus Domino environment for the purpose of checking if a recipient is valid. Steps: 1) Open the Ironport LDAP Settings Profile The "Base DN" will be automaticly populated with the Hostname.  However, the Base DN should be empty for "normal" Lotus Domino Domains. In very large complex environments the Base DN can be used to help reduce the results from the ldap query 2) Configure the accept query, which will Read more [...]

Guest hangs at ‘Starting’ on VMWare BIOS splash screen

'Power on virtual machine' shows Completed, however the server never gets passed 'Starting' on the VMWare BIOS splash screen. Initial Troubleshooting Steps: 1) I tried powering off/on the guest to no avail 2) I tried restarting the ccagent process on the host but that did not help in my case.  However this may be worth trying in your case. a) Connect to the ESX hosts Service Console via Putty b) input the command to find the ccagent process: ps -ef | grep ccagent c) determine the PPID Read more [...]