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• User cannot log into OWA 2007 Premium - The item that you attempted to access appears to be corrupted and cannot be accessed.

  I came across the following problem today and thought I should share my fix. When a user logged into OWA 2007 Premium they receive an error "The item that you attempted to access appears to be corrupted and cannot be accessed". The problem didn't... Posted Apr 07 2009, 01:15 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Cameron McFie, Exchange 2007, Outlook Web Access, Corrupt Reminders

• Provider is not capable of the attempted operation (0x80041024) when using wbemtest

  When trying to set the External addresses for the Group Expansion Server, The Address Book Files and the Meeting Content Download you would normally use WBEMTEST to set the WMI parameters. In a normal scenario, you would open each of the relevant objects... Posted Mar 10 2009, 12:20 AM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Cameron McFie, OCS R2

• Post HMC 4.5 UR2 instructions

  After installing update rollup 2 for HMC 4.5 I noted a few issues with adding mailboxes and retrieving domains owned by a customer. Thanks to Kip Ng's blog post ( https://blogs.technet.com/provtest/archive/2009/02/14/hmc-4-5-rollup-2-has-been-released... Posted Feb 25 2009, 12:13 AM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie

• MPS Queries using Powershell

  Lately I have been getting right into Powershell scripting and I have been trying to build an auditing utility which HMC 4.5 Cross Data Store (CrossDS) was supposed to provide. In building this auditing tool, I have built some basic Powershell scripts... Posted Feb 10 2009, 01:30 AM by Cam with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie, Powershell

• Understanding Exchange Resource Management in HMC

  After preparing to write up a guide on how Resource Management works in HMC I found a detailed article written by Arthur Fang and Shanming Xuan on Claudio Vacalebre's blog ( http://www.mshosting.org/Tech-Bulletins/HMC/4%20-%20Exchange%202007%20Resource... Posted Feb 08 2009, 11:36 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, Cameron McFie

• Working out what role a user has within HMC

  HMC has several roles in its delegated administration model, including the following below; Domain Admin (A member of Domain Admins / Administrators in the Active Directory Domain) Hosting Admin (An admin user of the whole HMC environment) Hosting CSR... Posted Feb 08 2009, 11:28 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, Cameron McFie

• OCS 2007 R2 has been launched!

  While staying up to upgrade our customer's HMC to v4.5 I watched the Virtual Launch of OCS 2007 R2. Some good information little tidbits I have got from it so far; Link to the technical guides of OCS 2007 R2 (Deployment, Planning, etc.) http://technet... Posted Feb 04 2009, 05:21 AM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: OCS, Cameron McFie

• HMC4.5 Upgrade doesn’t update namespaces if MSIShare has been moved

  Another little furfy I found tonight on a client's installation of HMC4.0. They had moved the folder "MSIShare" from C:\MSIShare to E:\MSIShare and shared the folder from there. It all worked until the HMC 4.0 to HMC 4.5 upgrade. As it seems... Posted Feb 04 2009, 03:58 AM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, Cameron McFie

• OCS 2007 R2 Videos on Technet Edge

  Just in case you are behind in what is happening in the upcoming release of OCS 2007 R2, Technet Edge released some videos on the new features in October last year. So if you have a spare few hours, here they are; Office Communications Server 2007 R2... Posted Jan 18 2009, 11:30 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: OCS, Cameron McFie

• OWA Redirection for Exchange 2007 users doesn’t work on Windows 2008

  If you have installed your Exchange 2007 Mailbox Server on a Windows Server 2008 server you may find an issue where the redirection from /Exchange to /OWA doesn't work. You will get an error when you login like "The user name or password that... Posted Sep 18 2008, 08:03 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange, Cameron McFie, Exchange 2007, Windows 2008

• Making Hosted Exchange Mailbox Plans Bigger Than 2GB

  Hi All, For those of you that have customers that require mailboxes larger than 2GB or at you will have issues provisioning the mailbox plan (Hosted Email 2007 -> CreateUserPlan) with the standard HMC 4.0 environment. To allow you create mailbox plans... Posted Aug 11 2008, 10:29 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Exchange, HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie, Hosted Email 2007 Provider

• Reporting Hosted CRM Users

  Hi All, Sorry for my lack of blog posts lately. As I was doing my SPLA reports, I decided I would share with everyone the SQL query that I am starting to use to provide me a list of CRM users for both SPLA and billing. It is a query you can run in SQL... Posted Aug 11 2008, 07:58 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Hosting, Cameron McFie, CRM4, Reporting

• Sharepoint Permissions Matrix

  While surfing the Internet for a Sharepoint project I am working on I randomly found an Excel spreadsheet showing all of the roles in sharepoint and what permissions that gives you access to. Totally unrelated to what I am working on but I thought it... Posted May 21 2008, 01:07 AM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Sharepoint, Cameron McFie

• Error Modifying Distribution Lists in Upgraded HMC4

  When trying to modify settings with a Exchange Distribution List that was added in HMC 3.5 and you have upgraded to HMC 4.0 you may get an error "The specified path is not a distribution list.". The problem is that HMC 4.0 checks to see if the... Posted May 18 2008, 09:56 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie

• Yet another patch that MPS has problems with

  Just something to watch out for, The Hosted Email 2007 Provider has issues when you install .NET Framework 2.0 Security Update (KB928365). It is also a problem with .NET Framework 2.0 SP1 and .NET Framework 3.0. You get errors like the following when... Posted Mar 05 2008, 02:35 AM by Cam with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: MPS, Cameron McFie, Patches, Hosted Email 2007 Provider