So I wait 6 months after the release of SP1 to install it to Exchange 2010. Mostly because the server had been running great (The older I get the easier it is to accept – IF IT AIN’T BROKE!). As it turns out, this may have been the most difficult Service Pack we’ve ever installed. Thinking we’d insulate ourselves from issues, we made a VMware snapshot (yes, we’re running Exchange 2010 on vSphere … and it works great!). And after a week of appartenly no issues, I finnally deleted the snapshot, so the...
read moreThis procedure was documented using VM Infrastructure 3.5 for altering ESXi 3.5 virtual machines. You may need to use Veeam to make the renaming adjustments. Could also be done via SSH. CAUTION: If snapshots do exist and are needed, then you may need to alter the *.vmdk files to keep the chaining in place. If you do not need the snapshots, select “delete all” under the snapshot manager and perform this procedure after the host has consolidated them. PROCEDURE FOR NON-SNAPSHOT Copy to new directory for backup Remove from inventory...
read moreWhile trying to execute an SSIS import package on a customer’s Excel file, SQL Server 2008 SP1 was returning a “truncated” error. Although, the SSIS package was set to ignore these, the execution halted and data was not written to the SQL table. There were a number of posts including David Klein’s and Waxtadpoles regarding SQL 2005 and the “TypeGuessRows” setting in the registry. Their suggestion was to set the value to 0 (zero), in order to force SQL to parse all rows in the excel sheet, not the first 8...
read moreOne of our users suddenly began experiencing a severe draining on his iPhone battery. There are variety responses to this topic, the least of which was to change the iPhones mail retrevial from Push to Fetch. Howver, other iPhone users were not experienceing this issue. So we set out to troubleshoot what was happening. After two days of research, below is our results and the resolutin that worked for us. Constant polling in Push mode The first thing we detirmined was that the phone was constantly polling the exchange OMA (Outlook Mobile...
read moreAfter performing a clean install of Microsoft Office 2008, Entourage began to give me the following error: “Unable to establish a secure connection to servername because the correct root certificate is not installed.” I followed various post regarding installing our Exchange Server’s certificate. After installing this, I began to receive this error: “Unable to establish a secure connection to servername because the server name or IP address does not match the name or IP address on the server’s...
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