Achieved 70-662 MCTS Exchange 2010 Configuration

After a short experiance with Exchange 2010 in both test and internal environments I have today passed 70-662 (Exchange 2010 configuration), not a whole lot of difference compared to 2007 besides ofcourse the new features. More interesting was the new format Microsoft has where they now offer upto 13 different awnsers decreasing the “luck” factor […]

Pending Reboot

If you are running into issues with unexpected “Pending Reboot” status on a Windows box it’s worth while to check the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager should contain a key named “PendingFileRenameOperations” which is a REG_MULTI_SZ key. This contains the pointers to all files currently being updated. This key can, in some cases, get poluted by […]

Creating internal certificate for OWA with multiple URLs

Creating a certificate that supports multiple URLs for internal and external usage in Exchange OWA using an internal CA via Windows. As a guide I used this article and also CertReq /? Create a TXT file with the following content: [NewRequest] Subject = “CN=Exchange.Pastures.local” Exportable = true ExportableEncrypted = true MachineKeySet = true FriendlyName = […]

Achieved 070-647 MCITP Enterprise Administrator

Today I achieved 070-647, it was a decently hard exam as to be expected ofcourse for the level of expertise required to pass and know all the items questioned within it. Focus will now shift from 2008 basis to my Messaging Specialism, which I will be upgrading from MCSA:M with an additional 2007 MCTS in […]

Problem Installing FEP Client (0x80070645)

Cross-posting some of my findings I also posted in http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/FCSNext/thread/2b853e6a-b05f-467d-bd3e-31f0cdf5830e I’ve been having the same problem with several servers. I have found that uninstalling FCS can sometimes be a pain. If you open your REGEDIT and find the HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UserData\S-1-5-18\Products folder and here search for ForeFront you will find the 2 installations from ForeFront. NOTE: This […]

Debugging Scheduled tasks “Last Result 0XE0434F4D”

Ran into a problem today with using a scheduled task which was not executing properly after changes being made to it’s batchjob. Ofcourse the Windows Task Scheduler doesn’t give a very good description on the error message so I found a nice article that uses the following code: @echo off echo %date% %time% Start of […]