SQL Server Reporting Services Integration with SharePoint – Error On attempt to setup subscription for an external email address

Symptoms: ============ On Attempt to setup subscription for an external email address, following error is received A Subscription Delivery error has occured. (rsDeliveryError) One of the extention parameters is not valid for the following reason: The name of the host specified in the e-mail address sandeep@messagingserversupport.com is not valid. (rsInvalidExtentionParameter) Cause: ========== Permittedhost section of [...]

Mysites deleted after recreating User profile Sync connection – SharePoint 2010

We deleted & recreated the user profile sync connection & after which all users started getting a warning message that their Mysites would be deleted. What we found out is we should disable the Mysite Cleanup job prior to recreating the user profile sync connection. This behaviour is by design if you want to not [...]

Outlook Profile Still Pointing to Exchange Server 2007 After Move Mailbox to Exchange Server 2010 – Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 Migration Issue

We are doing a migration from Exchange Server 2007 to Exchange Server 2010 in the same Exchange organization & discovered an interesting issue where after moving mailbox from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 with the new-moverequest the outlook profile did not automatically point to Exchange 2010 CAS server, it still kept trying to connect with [...]

How to Install Exchange 2013 RTM on Windows Server 2012

Due to lot of work pressure in last few days I could not write any article. Now I have got some time to demonstrate how to install exchange 2013 RTM on windows server 2012 in today’s article. In our last article we looked at the prerequisites to install exchange server 2013, Please make sure you [...]

How to Grant Read Access Permission on a Mailbox in Exchange Server 2010/2013

We often get a request from client where they want to grant read access permission to any user on a particular mailbox. Although there is an access rights “Read Permission” for mailbox permission available in exchange server 2007/2010 and 2013. However we have seen it does not work. Based on my research I have found [...]

Prerequisites for installing Exchange 2013 RTM

So finally I started to read about Exchange 2013 RTM and playing it with in my lab. I have outlined  the prerequisites to install exchange 2013 in terms of Hardware, Software, Active Directory topology, Coexistence etc. Lets Start with operating system supported for Exchange 2013 RTM. Supported Operating Systems: Exchange 2013 has got only two [...]

Admin Audit Log in Exchange 2010 SP1

This is a new feature which has been introduced in Exchange 2010 RTM. This feature keeps the track when a user or Administrator make any changes to the Exchange organization, Server configuration or Recipient. This can be helpful to trace following information. 1- Who has made the Change 2- What Changes have been made 3- [...]

Password change feature in Owa – Exchange 2007

Recently i got a chance to work on following issues. I would like to share basic information about password change feature and then how we fixed this issue. This feature is really helpful when user password has expired and he is not connected to domain and wants to change his password by himself. Users are unable to [...]

How to Remove sIDHistory for multiple users using script

There are various reasons why you would like to remove sIDHistory for multiple users, this being protected attribute you cannot remove it using adsiedit, you will need to use ldp which is explained by Hasnain in his earlier post. This post explains how to remove sIDHistory in bulk for multiple users. First you will need [...]

Unable to change password using owa for linked mailbox in Exchange 2007

Recently we encountered an issue “User was unable to change his password using owa because user account shows as resource forest user account.” Here is my environment details. Account Forest – Wipro.com Resource Forest – ATT.com. Recipient type details – Linked Mailbox I have user accounts in Wipro.com domain and linked mailboxes in ATT.com domain. [...]