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HP 6540b Bitlocker Issue

I encountered an issue on a HP 6540b Laptop with Windows 7 after the OS volume is encrypted with Bitlocker, the system never starts up normally. Every time the system is shutdown completely and then started again, it brings up the Bitlocker console and wants the recovery key entered. It doesn’t seem to do this when the system is restarted with CTRL+ALT+DELETE

After updating to the latest HP BIOS the problem was fixt.

Download the Latest bios update from the HP site for the 6540b HERE.

Microsoft Certified Master Exchange Video Preview

There is one Microsoft exam that I find very interesting. That is the Microsoft Certified Master for Exchange program.

I found a nice video what tells what we actually do in the classroom during Microsoft Certified Master rotations? Well, here is a 30 minute summary of the Exchange 2010 header firewall from Brian Reid, one of our regular MCM instructors. Brian covers the header firewall and much more during his two and a half day delivery of instruction and labs on Exchange Transport.

You can find the video HERE

HyperV Monitor 1.8 Released

HyperV_Mon is my free tool for monitoring and diagnosing performance issues with Hyper-V.

After prompting from a user with a lot more processors then the test systems here, I updated the HyperV_Mon tool to handle resizing in general, and to adjust the root partition processor display. This new version is a minor release (1.8.0).

In the works will be a version 2.0 that will look at 2008 R2 with SP1 changes. This should come out in Q1 of next year.

Download it HERE

Happy New Year!!!!!!!

Wishing you a happy new year and all the best for 2011, hope sow to see you on my blog again.

Exchange 2010: An Active Manager operation failed with a transient error. Please retry the operation. Error: Database action failed with transient error. Error: A transient error occurred during a database operation. Error: An error occurred while preparing to mount database

Failed to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1’. After recovering a Exchange 2010 SP1. I had no Database Backup. Because I am only using this exchange server for test only. I would use the recovered database but I get the following error:

Error:

Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: Mailbox Database 1; Error code: An Active Manager operation failed with a transient error. Please retry the operation. Error: Database action failed with transient error. Error: A transient error occurred during a database operation. Error: An error occurred while preparing to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1’. Error: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Exchsvr\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 2133499474’. [Database: Mailbox Database 1, Server: WARD-EX01.wardvissers.local].

An Active Manager operation failed with a transient error. Please retry the operation. Error: Database action failed with transient error. Error: A transient error occurred during a database operation. Error: An error occurred while preparing to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1’. Error: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Exchsvr\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 2133499474’. [Database: Mailbox Database 1, Server: WARD-EX01.wardvissers.local]

An Active Manager operation failed with a transient error. Please retry the operation. Error: An error occurred while preparing to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1’. Error: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Exchsvr\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 2133499474’. [Server: WARD-EX01.wardvissers.local]

An error occurred while preparing to mount database ‘Mailbox Database 1’. Error: Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Exchsvr\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 2133499474’.

Could not find a part of the path ‘D:\Exchsvr\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 2133499474’.

Screenshot:

Solution:
Make sure that all folders exist that are given with the error.

Recover an Exchange 2010 SP1 Server

Recover a Lost Exchange Server

1. Install the proper operating system and name the new server with the same name as the lost server. Recovery won’t succeed if the server on which recovery is being performed doesn’t have the same name as the lost server.

2. Join the server to the same domain as the lost server.

3. Install the following 2008 R2 HotFixes

The following hotfixes are required for the Client Access server for Windows Server 2008 R2:

Install the update described in Knowledge Base article 979099, An update is available to remove the application manifest expiry feature from AD RMS clients. Without this update, the AD RMS features may stop working.
Install the hotfix described in Knowledge Base article 982867, WCF services that are hosted by computers together with a NLB fail in .NET Framework 3.5 SP1. For more information, see these MSDN Code Gallery pages:
- For additional background information, see KB982867 – WCF: Enable WebHeader settings on the RST/SCT.
- For the available downloads, see KB982867 – WCF: Enable WebHeader settings on the RST/SCT.
Install the update described in Knowledge Base article 979744, A .NET Framework 2.0-based Multi-AppDomain application stops responding when you run the application.
Install the update described in Knowledge Base article 983440, An ASP.NET 2.0 hotfix rollup package is available for Windows 7 and for Windows Server 2008 R2. For more information, see these MSDN Code Gallery pages:
- For additional background information, see KB983440 – Win7 rollup package (PR for QFE 810219).
- For the available downloads, see KB983440 – Win7 rollup package (PR for QFE 810219).
Install the update described in Knowledge Base article 977020, FIX: An application that is based on the Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Service Pack 2 and that invokes a Web service call asynchronously throws an exception on a computer that is running Windows 7.

4. Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType Automatic

5. RUN –> E:\Setup.com /m:recoverserver /InstallWindowsComponents

Exchange 2010 Client Access Throttling

Environment:
Windows 2008 R2 – Exchange 2010 RTM
Later I installed SP1 & Rollup 2 for SP1

Outlook 2003 Service Pack 3 Clients
Issue:
During normal working hours users randomly was unable to access their mailboxes when they launched their Outlook client.

The users were receiving the following Outlook message:

“Unable to open your default e-mail folders. The Microsoft Exchange Server computer is not available. Either there are network problems or the Microsoft Exchange Server computer is down for maintenance.”
It was also reported that some users had issues expanding additional mailboxes. (Delegate Mailboxes )
The following Outlook message appeared.

Or users have issues opening Shared Calendars.

Solution:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2299468

With Get-ThrottlingPolicy you can see the value of RCAMaxConcurrency

(Exchange 2010 RTM default value 20) (Exchange 2010 SP1 default value 214748364)

I changed RCAMaxConcurrency to 214748364 and the problem is fixt:

Get-ThrottlingPolicy | set-ThrottlingPolicy -RCAMaxConcurrency 214748364

Merry Christmas & a happy New Year

Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1

The Infrastructure Planning and Design (IPD) Guide for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1 is very handy for successfully designing an Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure. The guide will help consultants make informed decisions about the design of fault tolerance and scalability so that their overall requirements are met.

The guide covers these key steps in the Exchange Server 2010 infrastructure design process:

Defining the project scope by identifying your individual business and IT requirements for a messaging infrastructure.
Mapping features and functionality based on the defined scope to develop the appropriate Exchange Server 2010 design.
Designing the infrastructure and role requirements for the proposed Exchange Server 2010 architecture.
Determining the sizing, fault tolerance, and physical placement of Exchange Server 2010 roles.

The Exchange Server 2010 Guide includes the following content:

Step 1: Define the Business and Technical Requirements
Step 2: Define the Instances of Exchange Server 2010
Step 3: Design the Mailbox Server Infrastructure
Step 4: Design the Client Access Server Infrastructure
Step 5: Design the Hub Transport Server Infrastructure
Step 6: Design the Edge Transport Server Infrastructure
Step 7: Design the Unified Messaging Server Infrastructure
Step 8: Define the Active Directory Domain Services Requirements

Launch the download of the IPD Guide for Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 with Service Pack 1.

Launch the download of the entire Infrastructure Planning and Design Guide series.

Publish Exchange 2010 With TMG (Forefront Threat Management Gateway)

When you want you use Forefront Threat Management Gateway to publish Exchange 2010 you must do the following things

1. Get a SAN Certificate.

I my case I have the following URL’s registered with the certificate.
webmail.wardvissers.nl
autodiscover.wardvissers.nl
legacy.wardvissers.nl
casarray.wardvissers.local

2. Import the Certificate in to Exchange 2010.
How to check HERE

3. Create on the Exchange 2010 Server a Client Access Array.
How you must do it I spoke it Configuring Client Access Array. I this case a used casarray.wardvissers.local for the client acces array.

4. Setting the internal & external url’s

Set-ClientAccessServer -Identity ward-ex01 -AutoDiscoverServiceInternalUri https://casarray.wardvissers.local/Autodiscover/Autodiscover.xml

Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\EWS (Default Web Site)” -InternalUrl https://casarray.wardvissers.local/ews/exchange.asmx -ExternalUrl https:// webmail.wardvissers.nl/ews/exchange.asmx

Set-OABVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\oab (Default Web Site)” -InternalUrl http:// casarray.wardvissers.local/oab -ExternalUrl https://webmail.wardvissers.nl/oab

Enable-OutlookAnywhere -Server ward-ex01 -ExternalHostname “webmail.wardvissers.nl” -ClientAuthenticationMethod “Basic”-SSLOffloading:$False

Set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync (Default Web Site)” -InternalURL https://casarry.wardvissers.local/Microsoft-Server-Activesync
-ExternalURL https://webmail.wardvissers.nl/Microsoft-Server-Activesync

Set-ECPVirtualDirectory –Identity ward-ex01\ECP (default web site) -InternalURL https://casarry.wardvissers.local/ECP -ExternalURL https://webmail.wardvissers.nl/ECP

5. Configure Exchange 2010 for basic authentication

Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -id ward-ex01\* -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $true -FormsAuthentication $false

set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\EWS (Default Web Site)” -WindowsAuthentication $true -BasicAuthentication $true

set-EcpVirtualdirectory –Identity ward-ex01\ECP (default web site) -BasicAuthentication $true -WindowsAuthentication $true -FormsAuthentication $false

set-OabVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\oab (Default Web Site)” -WindowsAuthentication $true -BasicAuthentication $true

set-ActiveSyncVirtualDirectory -Identity “ward-ex01\Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync (Default Web Site)” -BasicAuthentication $true

6. Import the SAN certificate in to the TMG server.

1. Click Start –> Run –> Type MMC
2. Click File –> add remove Snap-in –> Certificates –> ADD –> Computer account-> Next –> finish-> ok
3. Click Personal –> certificates
4. Right Click certificates –> all task –> import –> next –> select the *.pfx file –> next –> Password –> next –> next –> Finish

7. Publish OWA

1. Publish Exchange Web Client Access

2. Exchange Publishing rule name: OWA 2010

3. Choose Exchange Server 2010 & Outlook Web Access

4. Next ( I have only Single TMG Server)

5. Next

6.Internal Site Name: Client Access Array name. My Case casarray.wardvissers.local

7. Public Name: webmail.wardvissers.nl

8. At this moment I have no Web Listener so we gone create them

9. Weblister Name: HTTPS

10. Next

11. I choise for All Networks (and local host) because the Server has one NIC.

12. Select the Certificate that you just imported.

13. Choise for LDAP (Active Directory)

14. SSO Domain name: my case wardvissers.nl (External Domain name)

15. Finish