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• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• Error 26002. Failed to read IIsWebs table. (-2147023728) when installing DNS Client Provider

  Oh what fun! After many hours of pain in trying to work out why I couldn't install the new version of DNSClient.msi I finally got it working. As it turns out the provider requires you to have the "Default Web Site" set to "(All Unassigned... Posted Nov 28 2007, 07:20 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie, WBH

• Service pointers – Yet another place MPS stores information

  As an alternate database, MPS/HMC/WBH stores details about some of the related objects in Active Directory. None of these details are stored in the MPS SQL databases from what I can see. These details are called service pointers. If you look in adsiedit... Posted Nov 15 2007, 11:35 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Hosting, HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie, Active Directory, DNS

• otherWellKnownObjects – the family relatives you do actually want to know

  In Active Directory there is an attribute named "otherWellKnownObjects" which is not very well documented but put simply is used to reference other related objects. When talking about otherWellKnownObjects you will also hear about a term "Well... Posted Oct 22 2007, 05:13 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Hosting, HMC, MPS, Cameron McFie

• DTMU – a handy little migration thingimebob

  When migrating from Microsoft HMC 3.5 to HMC 4.0 you may come across a little utility named DTMU.exe. For those who are interested in what the DTMU tool does or are trying to work out what it is doing in the case that it fails, here you are; DTMU –PrepareAD... Posted Oct 15 2007, 05:22 PM by Cam with | with no comments Filed under: Hosting, HMC, Cameron McFie