So I had some issues creating email addresses the other day on a clients Exchange 2007 server. It was giving me the following error "An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found." So I thought I would share with everyone how you resolve this issue.. As crazy as it seams this is a very easy fix.

Make sure your logged in as a Domain Admin on your Exchange Server. Goto Services and find the service named “Microsoft Exchange System Attendant” if its stopped Start it.. if its started stop it then start it again. This should resolve the issue.

I was setting up a WSUS server for the first time the other day and was trying to trouble shoot a issue with a PC that didn’t seam to be registering with the WSUS server.. Found the following command to be useful.

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wuauclt.exe /resetauthorization /detectnow
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There is a log you can skim through to check for error messages and such located at
c:\windows\windowsupdate.log

So I ran into this issue I needed to find out if SP2 was installed on a Exchange 2003 Server I was working on for a client. The issue was this server was a SBS (Small Business Server Edition) So when you clicked Help>About on Exchange Manager it only would give you 6.5.7638.1 and nothing about SP2 or anything.. After some research I found the following and figured I would share it.

Exchange 2003
6.5.6944 = Exchange 2003
6.5.7226 = Exchange 2003 SP1
6.5.7638 = Exchange 2003 SP2
6.5.7638.1 = Exchange 2003 SP2 + some Exchange Patches Installed

Exchange 2007
8.0.685.24 or 8.0.685.25 = Exchange 2007
8.1.0240.006 = Exchange 2007 SP1

So I ran into this issue the other day..

Scenario: My client has a Server 2003 PC and the C:\ was running low in diskspace started looking around to see what big files were on the system.. to my dismay I found c:\windows\system32\wbem\logs\Framework.log to be 600MB and growing slowly.. After some research on Google to check my theory that this file was way too big.. I found that this is a common issue in Server 2003 and has to do with a permissions issue on c:\windows\system32\wbem\logs folder.

Fix:
Set the permissions on the %systemroot%\system32\wbem\logs folder (example c:\windows\system32\wbem\logs ) so that the Network Service account has the Delete permission.

Locate the %systemroot%\system32\wbem\logs folder, right-click on the folder, and then select Properties.
On the Security tab, click the Advanced button.
Select the NETWORK SERVICE account from the Permission entries list, and then click Edit.
Locate the Delete permission, and then click to select the Allow checkbox.
Click OK three times.

delete the Framework.log file and you should be set

So I was working on a clients server today (Windows Server 2003 SBS) that was very low on diskspace on the C:\ .. 634MB actually..

Was sorting through all the folders to figure out where the space was.. To my supprise 4GB of disk usage was in C:\Documents and Settings\[USERNAME]\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5 which as anyone who works with computers knows is where friking IE caches websites and downloads. So the quick fix for this is to delete the contents of the folder.. but this is kinda a pain to manualy go into these folders and clear them out for 15 users and even harder if you do it the long way and login each one a click "Delete files" in IE for each account..

So I found this nice little script online someone made and though I would share it.. Credits to whoever wrote it.. Save the code in notepad as cleanup.vbs and then run it.

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On Error Resume Next
Const HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE = &H80000002
strComputer = "."

Set objRegistry=GetObject("winmgmts:\\" & _
strComputer & "\root\default:StdRegProv")
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")

strKeyPath = "SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList"
objRegistry.EnumKey HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strKeyPath, arrSubkeys

For Each objSubkey In arrSubkeys
strValueName = "ProfileImagePath"
strSubPath = strKeyPath & "\" & objSubkey
objRegistry.GetExpandedStringValue HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, strSubPath, strValueName, strValue
Dim Fol:Fol = strValue & "\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.IE5"
If objFSO.FolderExists(Fol) Then
Set f = objFSO.GetFolder(Fol)
Set fc = f.SubFolders
For Each f1 in fc
f1.delete
Next
End If
Next

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So I ran into an issue today on a Windows 2003 server today.. Client wanted to run IIS and Apache on the same server.. I figured this wouldn’t be an issue because you can tell IIS to use one IP add another IP to the Network Interface and then tell Apache to use the second IP.. Well this turned out to be something far more complex.. First off even when setting IIS6 to listen on only one IP.. it STILL listens on all IP’s available so as this story would pan out Apache wouldn’t start because it couldn’t bind to the IP address on port 80 because it was already in use by IIS but I found the following trick to get around the issue.

Please note you should schedule a small block of time to do this as it requires a server reboot.. so figure the amount of time you will need is how ever long it takes your Server to shutdown and reboot +5-10min

Configure IIS to only listen to the one IP and make a note of that IP.

Open a command prompt (Start>Run "cmd" > Hit Enter)
Then type the following at the black screen: net stop http /y
This will stop all IIS and IIS related services

Next, run the httpcfg.exe this can be found on your Windows Server 2003 CD-ROM under
\support\tools\support.cab if you double click this file it should let you open it like a folder and copy the httpcfg.exe file to somewhere on your computer (example C:\temp)

At that command prompt you had open move to C:\temp or wherever you put the httpcfg.exe file
cd c:\temp

then type the following command
httpcfg set iplisten -i :80
For replace this portion with the IP address you set in IIS earlyer.. so if that ip was 192.186.0.102 then your command would be the following..
httpcfg set iplisten -i 192.168.0.102:80

If the command is successful, you will see the following message at the prompt.

HttpSetServiceConfiguration completed with 0

In some situations it will be necessary to reboot the server after this change but you can try to start the IIS by
net start w3svc

Change to following folder cd\IntePub\AdminScripts and enter run the following command:
cscript adsutil.vbs set /smtpsvc/1/DisableSocketPooling true