Exchange 2010 + Delayed incoming mail (hours)
Once our recipients complained to me about delays in receiving mail from web-service. I checked the logs for smtp-receiver and found e.g.: Tarpit for ‘0.00:00:00.312’ due to ‘DelayedAck’,Delivered In my case I have Exchange behind SPAM-Filter ,so I clean delays for all my receive-connectors with the command: get-ReceiveConnector | Set-receiveconnector -tarpitinterval 00:00:00 get-ReceiveConnector | Set-receiveconnector […]
PFSense + Sarg reports
I met a strange behavior in PFSense Sarg module. Reports didn’t appear and sarg index.html didn’t generated. Work config for success report: Report Options /usr/pbi/sarg-amd64/etc/sarg/sarg.conf: user graphics remove temporary files generate the main index generate the index tree overwrite report use comma instead pint in reports report_type topusers topsites sites_users users_sites date_time denied auth_failures site_user_time_date […]
Offline Address Book Fails to Download in Exchange 2010
I met the strange behavior with downloading OAB from Outlook after renewing a certificate – it was to long processing and seemed unsuccessfull (no new records were downloaded). Found this solution – it helped. Copy-pasted from: http://www.concurrency.com/blog/offline-address-book-fails-to-download-in-exchange-2010/ I ran into an interesting issue where the Exchange 2010 OAB failed to download to Outlook 2010, 2007, and […]
Exchange 2010 + Outlook + New feature: Room Finder
With the new feature “Room Finder” in Outlook (Create new meeting) you can choose a meeting room and check availability, conflicts. Beforehand you have to create distribution groups for it e.g.: New-DistributionGroup “Meeting Rooms” -RoomList Then you can add rooms as members: Add-DistributionGroupMember -Identity “Meeting Rooms” -Member room1 Then you can check it in Outlook […]
Windows events for auditing logon issues
Event Id Event Type Event Occured Reason 529 Failure Audit Logon Failure Unknown user name or bad Password 539 Failure Audit Logon Failure The user trying to logon is already locked 612 Policy Change Policy Changed General Audit Policy changed 643 Policy Change Domain Policy Changed Changes in Account Lockout and Password policis 644 Success […]
Exchange + export e-mail for specific time interval
Example: New-MailboxExportRequest -ContentFilter {(Received -lt ’08/07/2014′) -and (Received -gt ’08/05/2014′)} -Mailbox “ivan.ivanov” -Name david.jones -FilePath \\exchange1\ExportedPST\ivan.ivanov.pst
Exchange + redirecting OWA + unifying OWA link
1. Go to the IIS Console and open Default Web Site. 2. Open HTTP Redirect and tick “Redirect request to this destination:” and type your new link e.g.: mail.firm.local. 3. Tick “Only redirect request to content .. (not subdirectories)” . 4. Untick the redirection for: aspnet_client, autodoscover, ecp, ews, microsoft-server-activesync, oab, powershell, rpc. 5. Warning: […]
Another script for temperature monitoring on PFSense
Just the script: #!/bin/sh cd /usr/local/etc S0=`/usr/local/etc/digitemp_DS9097 -t 0 -q -s /dev/cuau0 -o\%.C` #date=`date -j +”%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S` #echo “<tr><td align=center>Temperature for $date</td></tr></table></div>” >> /usr/local/www/temp/index.html tmp1=`cat /tmp/temp.tmp` flag=`expr $S0 – $tmp1` echo $S0 > /tmp/temp.tmp # Prepare a mail echo “To: admin@domain.com” > mail.txt echo “From: admin@domain.com” >> mail.txt echo “Subject: Server room = $S0” >> […]
Active Directory + Outlook 2013 template (Office 2013 templates)
To manage account settings in Outlook in a domain I decided to do this via GPO. For Office 2013 only ADMX templates are present. So you can’t import them via gpedit. 1. Create a Central Store for templates: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/929841 2. Download this http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=6243 and copy to the PolicyDefinitions folder. 3. Download http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=18968 and copy it […]
Exchange 2010 + OWA + Time interval for caching credentials
You can change it here: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\InetInfo\Parameters Add Dword parameter with the name UserTokenTTL and value e.g. 30 in seconds.