Search Fails for Some Outlook or OWA Users
Due to a recent power outage at a client site, their Exchange search catalogs became corrupted. The issue at hand was that searches in Outlook or OWA only resulted in showing results prior to the outage. To confirm that this was the case, I opened the trusty EMS and ran this command on an affected individual. test-exchangesearch username [...]
Surveying a Linux System, Part 2 – Software
A few days back, I listed some Linux commands for getting hardware information. Now onto software and operating system information. Again, you may need to run some of these as root and your mileage may vary, since not all distros are alike. List version of Red Hat/Fedora/CentOS # cat /etc/redhat-release List version of SuSE # cat [...]
Surveying a Linux System, Part 1 – Hardware
I am called to work on Linux systems only occasionally, which is unfortunate since it is a very versatile and useful OS that should warrant more of my time. In many instances the request has been to survey a Linux box, and as usual I’m searching Bing and Google for commands. Here’s the first of [...]
Recurring meeting has been declined!
A recent Outlook user, trying to book a non-recurring meeting, received this error: “Giant Conference Room has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource.” But, it was non-recurring!!! This error comes about when multiple users have the same resource open, in this case a conference room, [...]
Symantec AntiVirus Runtime Error!
Earlier this year, a customer kept getting this error when rebooting: Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime Library Runtime Error! Program: C\Program Files\Symantec AntiVirus\Rtvscan.exe This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an unusual way. Please contact the application’s support team for more information. Luckily the fix isn’t too painful… Go to a command prompt and run wbemtest [...]
SQL Server Management Studio Express
Who doesn’t love free? I certainly do. Microsoft has offered a great free version of its flagship database software, MS SQL, for quite some time now. And up until a few years ago it didn’t have a GUI front-end, but Microsoft fixed that with the release of SQL Server Management Studio Express. Now out of [...]
Time Skew and Exchange Services
On a recent Sunday night, I was home watching The Walking Dead, a colleague called to say that our core switch was down in our colo. As he was on vacation, I raced over there, preformed some troubleshooting, finally rebooting our huge Cisco 4510 to bring everything back online, that is except Exchange. The Exchange cluster [...]
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