Author Archives: ~ Kam

Reset Computer accounts in Active Directory domain

By | 22 December, 2014

 Having problem whereby when you login a workstation and the message appear “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed” ? Usually, this is because there are broken trust between workstation and domain controller. Easy solution is just to disjoin and rejoin back the workstation in the domain. However, we not sure… Read More »

Exchange Resource Forest Topology

By | 27 October, 2014

Exchange resource forest topology concept usually used in enterprise environment. In this topology, we will have account and resource forest. Account forest is where the account created while resource forest is where service provider (Exchange, Lync) that have account disable linked back to account forest. Usually, this been used while an organization used service provider… Read More »

Installing Exchange 2010 in child domain

By | 27 October, 2014

As quick note for my self. To install new (without co-exist legacy) Exchange in child domain, below is the step : Scenario : Parent-Child domain (parent.local & child.parent.local) 1) In parent.local domain controller, sign in as account have Enterprise and Schema Admin for parent.local. 2) Open command prompt and perform : setup.com /PrepareSchema 3) Once… Read More »

Renew DigiCert in TMG

By | 22 September, 2014

There are several ways to renew DigiCert or any third party certificate in TMG. However, the easiest way is using DigiCert® Certificate Utility for Windows that can be obtain thru DigiCert’s website. Sometimes, I’m always confuse how the renew certificate works, after several research, the concept is very easy : 1) Generate Certificate Signing Request… Read More »

Troubleshoot auditing not works

By | 22 August, 2014

Sometimes, when we turn on the auditing, we see that the audit not work or not return any result. Below are the step for troubleshooting : 1) Do the mailbox already enable the audit? issue below command : Get-Mailbox -Identity ‘‘ | Format-List Audit* If yes, continue step 2 If no, perform again the Set-Mailbox… Read More »

Email stuck at draft

By | 22 August, 2014

When have this issue in Exchange 2013, you can try to perform below : 1) Open Exchange Management Shell in malbox server 2) issue below command o Restart-Service msexchangesubmission o Restart-Service msexchangedelivery o Restart-Service msexchangetransport So far no impact to database, we only restart the transport services in mailbox server. Then try again to see… Read More »

Exchange 2010 – Upgrade SP1 to SP3

By | 22 July, 2014

Some important key for SP upgrade is : 1) SP cannot be uninstall 2) Schema will cange/extend Below is the sequence of upgrade based on role : 1) Client Access servers (beginning with the internet-facing site) 2) Hub Transport and Edge Transport servers 3) Mailbox servers 4) Unified Messaging servers Doing upgrade by sequence and… Read More »

Add features offline

By | 23 May, 2014

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2785188 Dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFX3 /All /Source:E:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess