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Comment on Recovering “Hidden” Disk Space Used on SBS 2008 C: partitions by Knut Stølen

Knut Stølen — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 12:51:45 +0000

Thank you, had the same problem, the log files had reached 63 GB in my case.
Have a number of SMB innstallations that i monitor, so i will look into the rest of them to check this.

Knut.

Comment on Recovering “Hidden” Disk Space Used on SBS 2008 C: partitions by AVR

AVR — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:57:13 +0000

Appreciate the inputs. Had two domains receiving emails on my sbs2008 box. one of the domains was good, however the 2nd domain stopped receiving emails. Found 30GB of log files . Cleared it and evertying works as intented.

Thanks guys,
AVR

Comment on Restoring SBS 2008 to Different Hardware by pc repair retford

pc repair retford — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:33:18 +0000

@Q
your post is correct. i have just come across this problem myself. A restore attempt failed with an element error and looking into this i found your post. in fact my problems were two fold. first i had to remove the usb backup drive during boot and only plug this in when selecting complete restote from backup. my next problem was as you outline the new target drive was smaller than the old drive. after i had fitted the new system with an equal capacity drive the restore is now in progress. not sure but i would infer from other sources on the web this limitation/bug/restriction has been sorted in sbs 2008 r2.
Best Wishes, Shane

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Wilson Mak

Wilson Mak — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 05:00:22 +0000

Thanks a lot. Have been trying for 2 days with no avail. Your step by step instructions work well, much better any postings out there.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Paul

Paul — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:40:52 +0000

Thanks for the explanation. Good article, everything works fine now.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by thank you~

thank you~ — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 20:55:34 +0000

VERY EASY! VERY THOROUGH AND METICULOUS! — THANKS!!!!!

Comment on Automating the WSUS 3.0 Cleanup Process by Steve

Steve — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 14:38:13 +0000

That’s nice work, nice tight script. It’s always nice to find somebody else has taken the trouble to dig into the objects and pull out the necessary properties to do exactly what you’re looking for. Thanks for saving me some time.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by moontech

moontech — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:08:12 +0000

I installed my 1st device an iphone4 to an sbs 2011 server although it did connect, it prompted me for a 4 digit security code( on the phone. Now i have to unlock the phone everytime I goto use it. Just wondering if that was normal

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by PonchoBuck

PonchoBuck — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:57:30 +0000

Had problems with iphone4 users not connecting to Exchange 2010. Users had more than one Apple device (iphone4, ipad2, etc.) and Exchange would verify okay when setting up Exchange activesync on the phone but would not connect with the iphone4 (“cannot connect to server” error message). Application event log would generate Event ID1008 Source MSExchange ActiveSync corrupt connection…, etc. each time an activesync was initiated but deleteing the Exchange connection on the iphone and recreating it would not cure.

Solution: Logging into 2010 OWA for the affected users, deleting the connections under, “options”, “alloptions”, “phone”. Wouldn’t some documentation be nice for these?

Comment on Getting the current date and time in batch files by Mario Awad

Mario Awad — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 10:29:41 +0000

This has been of great help. Thank you. For the myHour code above, careful if you copy/paste it as you need to replace the single quotes (on the IF line) with standard double quotes. Cheers.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Sara

Sara — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 19:52:48 +0000

For the question from remo; “I just wanna ask, why it can’t verify my account though I put the correct server, username and password?”

We had the same issue, all information was correct yet it would not verify the account. We discovered that the iphone has SSL turned on automatically when you try to set up an exchange account, so you may try to Save the account despite the warning that it may not get e-mail etc, then go back to the mail settings for that account and turn off the SSL setting. That worked for us.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Ivan

Ivan — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:59:44 +0000

For whatever reason this didn’t work for me. Instead of selecting “Exchange” for the type of account I did “Other”. And then it worked. Go figure. I used an exchange setup for my laptop. I don’t know if I’ll get the full features but my email is working.

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Marzeth

Marzeth — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:06:15 +0000

I only want to sync my business Email and Calendar, but keep synching my Contacts through my Outlook at home.

I read elsewhere that once you setup an Exchange account, your contacts are overwritten and you cannot sync Contacts from iTunes/Outlook. Is this true?

Many Thanks!

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Jarryd

Jarryd — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:28:39 +0000

Thank you so much!! very helpful

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by jwilson

jwilson — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:43:18 +0000

@Q – testexchangeconnectivity.com works fine for me on my new Exchange 2010 server for Autodiscover + ActiveSync. And test-activesyncconnectivity cmdlet works on the server. iPhone adds the account, but will not sync: “Cannnot Get Mail. The connection to the server has failed.” This despite wiping the iPhone and starting fresh after it initially wouldn’t work. And I’ve connected dozens of iPhones to other servers, and mine worked fine on my Exchange 2007. First time I’ve seen testexchangeconnectivity.com work, the account add properly, test-activesyncconnectivity works, but no sync of mail, contacts or calendar. Anyone have any ideas?

Comment on ipconfig /flushdns for Mac by Ivan Novak

Ivan Novak — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 02:55:04 +0000

I realize you posted this years ago, but this really helped me out today. Thank you.

Comment on Internet Access for Macintoshes behind ISA 2004 by Ashan

Ashan — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 09:56:17 +0000

i have one Apple Mac Pc with Microsoft’s Entourage as Email application.Apple Mac And other machines are behind the ISA 2004 Fire wall.

Only Mac pc Cannot POP form External Mail Server.I did the Above But still it is not working.

can it be happen due to use of different PORT to POP?

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by Gusto

Gusto — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:01:55 +0000

Just what I needed.
Great article, thanks for the help

Comment on Connecting an iPhone 4 to Exchange by james hobbs

james hobbs — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 13:15:37 +0000

It ask for Exchange password which I do not have

Comment on SBS 2008 and Companyweb Offline by Magno Alberto

Magno Alberto — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 16:04:47 +0000

I am having the same problem however, I have identified part of the solution.
I have a dedicated account for the general administration of the SBS, however, if I have connect to the \\.\pipe\MSSQL$Microsoft##SSEE\sql\query using SQLSMSE, I get error,but if I enable the administrator account and to log in with that account, can access the instance.

This link – http://www.eggheadcafe.com/microsoft/Windows-Server-SBS/35827564/eventid-3760-error.aspx – This link suggests that assign some permissions are missing from the account NETWORK SERVICE, but when expand the node DATABASE, I note that SQL is trying to restore several databases this instance, possibly due to some unexpected stop server.

I hope this tip helps too because I was researching this same problem for several weeks.