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Unable to expand a distribution list in Outlook – Exchange 2003 Environment
Have you ever receive an error stating that “There was an error while expanding the list. The list was not fully expanded.” when you try and expand a distribution list in Outlook? The error looks like the one below: To solve this change the list to a Universal Distribution Group. Wait for replication if need be and you will then be able to expand the list and view the members within Outlook.
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Installing Mono Develop in Linux Mint 17.1
Just a quick video on installing MonoDev in Linux Mint 17.1 1. Open your web browser and browse to the MonoDev Website to copy the GPG Key and the repository link. 2. Open your terminal and run sudo (and paste the GPG key signing key from the above website here) then press enter 3. Now type sudo (and paste the link to the repository from the above website here) press enter 4. Install Mono Develop by running the following in your terminal: sudo apt-get install monodevelop 5. Type y when prompted to download and install the package 6. Open Mono Develop after the installation has finished. If it does not open try points…
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Unable to browse network in Linux using Pace router
I recently upgraded to VDSL and had to purchase a VDSL router. The only router that was readily available was a PACE VDSL router model 921VNX. The problem is that I am now unable to connect to machines on my network from my Linux machines. I received a reply from an external URL when pinging a machine on my internal network. After some research I found that it’s a known issue with the Pace routers. Some people advised that a firmware update resolved this for them but I already have the latest firmware update. The video below shows how to get around it by editing your hosts file in Linux…
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Unable to connect a disconnected mailbox – User not found error when trying to connect a mailbox to a user in Exchange
We’ve had a few instances where we need to disconnect a mailbox and reconnect it to a new user account for a user. This should be easy right? Well not always. It’s happened more than once where we try to use the Exchange Management Console to connect the mailbox to the user account but Exchange can’t find the user account. Have a look in Active Directory and the account shows up. You then try to connect the mailbox to the user account using the Exchange Management Shell with the same results. user not found. See below on how to get this issue resolved: 1. Open adsiedit.msc (start, run and type…
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Outlook Web Access stops working after renewing 3rd party Certificate
We had an interesting issue this week. We renewed our Exchange certificate with a 3rd party vendor. Installed the certificate on Exchange and ISA Server. OWA access from the internet stopped working after we installed the certificates. We tested OWA internally and it worked which pointed to something on the ISA server. After a long investigation we found the issue to be ISA running on Windows 2003 which is not compatible with the Secure Hash Algorithm 2 (SHA2) family of hashing algorithms that the certificates from our 3rd party cert provider issues. Microsoft has a hotfix available to get around this. We were able to access OWA from the internet…
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E-Mail delivers to Deleted Items folder
We had a shared mailbox where all the mail sent to the mailbox delivered to the deleted items folder. To resolve this do the following: 1. Open Exchange Management Shell 2. Type Get-CalendarProcessing “mailboxname” | fl and press enter 3. If AutomateProcessing shows AutoAccept in the returned results then run the next cmdlet 4. Set-CalendarProcessing “mailboxname” -automateprocessing none 5. Wait for replication and check that Get-CalendarProcessing “mailboxname” | fl shows that it’s set to :none We verified after running the above that mail delivered to the mailbox deliveres to the Inbox as expected.
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How to Install Team Speak 3 on Linux Mint 17.1
If you are into gaming and love gaming in Linux then you probably want to use Team Speak to chat to your mates while in game shooting things up or looting monsters. This video shows you how to install Team Speak 3 in Linux Mint 17.1 but should work on most debian based Linux desktops.
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Upgrade Linux Mint 17 to 17.1
Hi everyone. This video below just shows you how to upgrade Linux Mint 17 to 17.1. I use Cinnamon edition and have to say that I just fell in love with 17.1 Click here to visit the Linux Mint website for getting your Mint on and to read all about Linux Mint.
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Install MusicBee in Linux Mint
I recently decided to get rid of iTunes as it just felt bloated and slow. The biggest reason for this move was that I could not transfer music to my iPod from Linux and decided I wanted an application that can manage my music and transfer music to any device using Linux and Windows. I came across MusicBee. MusicBee has been developed for Windows but I managed to get it running without any issues on my Linux Mint 17.1 PC. (The best music app I have come across yet) Below is the link to the forum post I used and a video showing you how to install MusicBee on Linux Mint.…
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Microsoft Exchange Replication Service Starts and then Stops
We had an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster where the passive node databases stopped seeding. After some investigation we noticed that the Exchange Replication Service starts and a second or two later stops. The event log did not give us much information, only stating that the service started and stopped again. We checked all the databases on the passive node and noticed that they were in a dirty shut down state as the logs stopped replaying to the database a few days earlier. Resolution that worked for us: 1. Move each database to a new folder on the disk that it resides. 2. Start the Exchange Replication Service. (We monitored the…
