Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Outlook Credentials Management

Outlook Credential Manager from Command Prompt

rundll32.exe keymgr.dll, KRShowKeyMgr


Alternatively Go to control panel, User Accounts, manage your credentials, and delete any outlook entries under "Generic Credentials"

Close outlook and reopen. That solved our problem


Wednesday, December 10, 2014

In Lab, Windows server 2008 R2 are unable to communicate with each other

Issue : 
In my Hyper-v Lab, two machines are unable to communicate with each other.
Ping to destination IP show "Request timed Out" and when reboots ping shows "Destination host unreachable", which indicates the connection is being refused from the destination server.

Resolution : 
Properties of "Windows Firewall with Advanced Security on Local Computer" > Domain Profile Tab > Firewall State "On" and changed the Options "Inbound Connections" Block (default) to Allow.

this option is useful when you don't want to disable the firewall, alternatively you can make rules to enable the Inbound traffic from other server






Tuesday, December 9, 2014

VSSAdmin DNPublish


for System 
C:\>vssadmin list shadowstorage
vssadmin 1.1 - Volume Shadow Copy Service administrative command-line tool
(C) Copyright 2001-2005 Microsoft Corp.

Shadow Copy Storage association
  For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{1f579c24-a50d-11dd-83df-xxxxxxxxxxxxx}\
  Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{1f579c24-a50d-11dd-83df-xxxxxxxxxxxxx}\
  Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 47.256 GB
  Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 49.405 GB
  Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 50 GB


c:\>vssadmin list shadows 
This will provide more information about what program is using the shadow storage

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For Exchange 
Issue: Backup is taking long time to complete or Inconsistent

1. Troubleshooting steps
vssadmin list writers

2. In Application Log, Related Event with Backup 
Event Id : 3156 

3. Increase the Diagnostic logging for "Exchange Writer"

Set-EventLogLevel "MSExchangeIS\9002 System\Exchange Writer" -Level Expert
To revert the Changes 
Set-EventLogLevel "MSExchangeIS\9002 System\Exchange Writer" -Level Lowest

and 
Set-EventLogLevel "MSExchangeIS\9002 System\Backup Restore" -level Expert
Set-EventLogLevel "MSExchange Repl\Service" -level Expert

4. Restart the "Microsoft Exchange Server Extension for Windows Server Backup" service