Rahman® Reviews

PST Capture tool errors

Hasan — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:39:14 +0000

I have been using Microsofts PST capture tool to upload .pst files to Office 365 and on premise Exchange servers. I always forget a few important things.

1. It requires Outlook 64 bit or it will fail with an error opening mailbox.

2. Remember to change the message limits and quotas. For instance if you forget to raise the message limits, the import will fail with an Import error: The RPC server is unavailable. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706BA)

3. Change the default settings! It will only upload mail and not calendar, contacts and so on if you have not enabled this in settings. And also check how you want the imported folders to be stored, wether you want it in a folder for it self or if you want to import it and mix it with the existing folders.

4. Language settings… If you do not liive in an english speaking country or want another language, then remember to set the language settings for the default folders or else it will be in english and you will get a mix of languages. You can do this for everyone using powershell.

How to create a shared mailbox in Office 365

Hasan — Mon, 07 May 2012 20:14:26 +0000

Shared mailboxes are free on Office 365, you just have to remember a few things.

1. It has to be created through powershell. I have tried to convert a regular mailbox to a shared and while this works it does complain about license issues on the admin page.

2. The quota for a shared mailbox is 5 GB

Alright then, lets go to work. I assume you know how to connect to Office 365 through powershell. If not Google or Bing is your friend. The following command will create a mailbox named Rahman Support with the alias support:

New-Mailbox -Name “Rahman Support” -Alias support -Shared

Now you need to set a quota restriction and the following will send a warning at 4.5, stop sending at 4.75 and stop receiving at 5:

Set-Mailbox print -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 5GB -ProhibitSendQuota 4.75GB -IssueWarningQuota 4.5GB

Watchguard 11.5.2 Mobile SSL VPN client and OS X 10.7 error

Hasan — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:09:51 +0000

There is a problem with Watchguard 11.5.2 Mobile SSL VPN client and OS X 10.7. The VPN client crashes immediately after entering the credentials. Stay on 11.5.1 for now, Watchguard Support does not have an official solution out yet, but I know they are working on it.

UPDATE: Watchguard have released version 11.5.3 and the bug should have been fixed now

Bug in Office 2011 SP 2

Hasan — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 20:19:56 +0000

Microsoft have pulled SP2 for Office 2011 because of a bug in Outlook. If you have trouble with outlook after upgrading to SP2 look here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2702740

The errors will typically have somthing to do with a corrupt database or Outlook trying to upgrade the database every time you start Outlook.

SBS 2008 and SBS 2011 does not like teamed nics

Hasan — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:35:51 +0000

Even though it would be nice to team the network cards on a SBS server, don’t do it! Microsoft does not support it and several things will fail. For instance some of the wizards will not work, and you really want those to work on a SBS 2011.

MCSA Windows Server 2008 Core

Hasan — Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:31:42 +0000

Apparently I have now achieved an MCSA Windows Server 2008 Core… I don’t really know why, but I am guessing that it is because Microsoft recently changed the certification program completely. I think My MCITP: Enterprise Administrator also covers some of the same certifications as MCSA Windows core, but I cannot find any info on Microsofts website.

Updated: Microsoft will deliver more information on the subject on the 24. of April

Looking forward to Office for iOS

Hasan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:12:28 +0000

I am looking forward to Office for iOS, I hope it will offer some connectivity to Sharepoint. And yes it is on the way Just a matter of time now…

Cannot rdp to Server 2008 R2 or SBS 2011 after installing SP1

Hasan — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:10:42 +0000

I upgraded some servers this weekend, and after applying SP1 I could no longer connect to the servers via RDP. It turns out KB2667402 was the culprit, read more about it here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2667402

If it happens to you, either get local access, through ILO or remove the update through WMI from another server on the same network and then reapply it.

Free tool to upload .pst to Office 365

Hasan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:57:58 +0000

If you want to migrate all your mail, calendar, contacts and tasks to Office 365 you can do so with the tools from Office365, but what if you don’t have a public certificate and don’t want to buy one just for this purpose? You could export the accounts and upload them one by one with outlook, but that is a bit to much hands on… Export your accounts to .pst and use PST Capture Tool from Microsoft to upload them all to Office365. It really is very easy once you have your .pst files. Look at: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh781036.aspx It is a great tool, did I mention it is from Microsoft and it is free ANd while you are at it scan your network with this tool and find and upload all the users archived .pst’s as well.

MCSE and MCSA is back again

Hasan — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:50:43 +0000

Microsoft have relaunched MCSE and MCSA again. However it looks to me as though it is just the MCITP title that has changed. Microsoft will however provide new certification paths, for instance Private Cloud and of course in time they will be offering MCSE/MCSA Server 8, Exchange 20xx, Office 20XX and so on.