18 September 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Exchange (OWA) CAS crashes with 503 error – again

TweetThis just started happening again, with these errors appearing in the event viewer: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 [...]

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07 April 2011 ~ 4 Comments

Renaming a single-label domain to a FQDN

TweetLong ago — eons, perhaps — before I had anything to do with the Windows environment here, someone created the AD domain in my company as a single-label domain (e.g. instead of “example.com” our domain is just “example”). Over the years this has led to lots of “fun” on the part of Windows admins who’ve [...]

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01 March 2011 ~ 0 Comments

Autodiscover mysteriously stopped working (Exchange 2010)

TweetI had Autodiscover working for months but recently it just stopped. I’m not sure why, but it may be related to removing the last Exchange 2003 servers from service recently. Maybe some setting got wiped from AD when I uninstalled Exchange 2003 (as per the procedure Microsoft gives). Basically what was happening was that the [...]

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30 November 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Wasted time with Exchange 2010, SquirrelMail, and IMAP-SSL

TweetI’m setting up SquirrelMail to point to my Exchange 2010 server via IMAP (don’t ask) and couldn’t get SM to talk to Exchange on port 993 (imaps). Even though the servers on the same subnet, any time passwords are being sent over the network I like to opt for SSL. I found a couple of [...]

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05 November 2010 ~ 11 Comments

Using Zabbix for SNMP monitoring disk usage percent for Windows hosts

TweetA few years ago we moved from Nagios to Zabbix for our server monitoring needs. I wasn’t a big fan of Nagios, finding it a pain to manage with its myriad configuration files. It’s probably gotten better since I last toyed with it but since we moved to Zabbix I haven’t had much reason to [...]

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21 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Exchange 2010 Post-Upgrade weirdness: can't edit Mail Non-Universal Group or Security Group

TweetNow that everyone’s been moved to Exchange 2010 we’ve started using the 2010 Exchange Managment Console/Shell exclusively which has revealed some weirdness. First, we created a new group in AD using an old script (which used LDAP) and created a Mail-enabled Global Security group. We put people in the group, and everything seemed to be [...]

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12 October 2010 ~ 0 Comments

Finally, all users moved from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.

TweetI’ve been working on migrating our Exchange environment from 2003 to 2010 for several months. My first post about this is from April 14th, when I was just trying to virtualize our existing Exchange 2003 system. Once that was complete, I started playing around with Exchange 2010 around June or July, and had most of [...]

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16 September 2010 ~ 1 Comment

One reason I hate iTunes.

TweetI’ve always hated iTunes. It’s a huge pile of bloatware and it’s slow as poo. It’s like 100 mb or more for an mp3 player. I remember winamp playing mp3s when it was a 500k download. Anyway. I keep all my music on a Linux machine running samba. This way it’s available to every machine [...]

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