A customer told us they emailed two of our people yesterday, but neither of them received the email.  I am also being told the emails were delivered to our Exchange server, but, we cannot find them on the users Outlook.  Also, they have received other emails from this same customer. It is only the email sent at 1:34pm to both of our people that was not received in Outlook.  They have since received other emails from that some customer.

We are using Outlook 2007 on Win7Pro machines using a .ost file.  Our server is SBS 2008 with Exchange 2007.  

How do I figure out what happened to the two emails at 1:34pm yesterday and how to do I determine if there is some problem with Exchange?

This is s SBS 2011 Standard
Found out today that a client can't access email. A colleague jumped on the Server and found all the exchange services disabled, he enabled them and mail worked for a short time. Mail not longer works, here are the issues I have found.
Exchange management console shows this error
Connecting to the remote server failed with the following message : The client cannot connect to the destination specified in the request.  Verify that the service on the destination is running and is accepting requests.  Consult the logs and documentation for the WS-Management service running on the destination, most commonly IIS or WinRM.  If the destination is the WinRM service, run the following command on the destination to analyze and configure the WinRM service: "winrm quickconfig". 

Winrm shows everything is fine.
Strange things I have noticed, Update rollup 4-14 for Exchange server 2010 SP3 all installed with todays date. In the programs list Microsoft Exchange server 201 is showing an install date of today. I have all the services running for exchange.
When I hit "change" on exchange server it says "The LPVersioning file has an invalid value. Please check the Exchange Log for more info.
I also can't open the "Turn Windows Features on or off" it just opens Services.
What the heck happened last night?
Running SFC now.

Hi.
Have a SBS 2011 , with Exchange 2010.
Setting up new pc's with Office 2016 that only support autodiscover set-up.
Have a certificate mail.domainname.com.
Made a DNS cname record ; autodiscover.domainname.com -> mail.domainname.com

Autodiscover setup i Outlook now works but gives waring on every startup (of Outlook).
Stating that there is a missmatch between the certificate (mail.domainname.com) and the server it connects to (autodiscover.domainname.com) Which I understand. There is a missmatch..


So, was hoping to get around this without buying a new multi-sub-domain certificate.

Found a workaround:

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HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Office\xx.0\Outlook\AutoDiscover\RedirectServers

4.      Click the Edit menu, point to New, and then click String Value.
5.      Type the name of the HTTPS server to which AutoDiscover can be connect without warning for the user, and then press ENTER. For example, to allow a connection to https://contoso.com, the first String Value (REG_SZ) name would be as follows:

contoso.com
#

here I added autodiscover.domainname.com (and mail.domainname.com + domainname.com, when it didn't work) without any luck.

Outlook works (send and recive mail) even if I let the warning stay open, but would like to get rid of it.

- Only 3 pc's connected to domain.

Had user who needed to have their Windows 7 profile recreated to fix a public folder issue.  Public folders are now displaying correctly.

After the new user profile was created with the same name, redirected folders are not showing up.

The folders are intact on the server, in the location where I expect them to be.

When I do a GPUPDATE I get the following:

C:\Users\charlie>gpupdate
Updating Policy...

User Policy update has completed successfully.

The following warnings were encountered during user policy processing:

The Group Policy Client Side Extension Folder Redirection was unable to apply on
e or more settings because the changes must be processed before system startup o
r user logon. The system will wait for Group Policy processing to finish complet
ely before the next startup or logon for this user, and this may result in slow
startup and boot performance.
Computer Policy update has completed successfully.

For more detailed information, review the event log or run GPRESULT /H GPReport.
html from the command line to access information about Group Policy results.

I did a GPRESULT /H  and under Component Status I see:

Printers and drives are mapping so I know GPOs are being applied.  This is only happening to this one user and only after I re-created his User profile on his desktop.

I have of course rebooted and logged off and back on several times.

He does have full access to his folders on the server.

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Hey all,

I've got a set up with a Synology device that is the main data store (read: many user shares), and is processing backups to an off site destination.  The SBS 2011 device is handing mail, AD roles and so on.

Since the Synology is doing the off site backup so well, I wanted to get away from using USB drives to back up via the SBS console.  Here is where I got to:

1) Create an iSCSI configuration of 500GB in size on the Synology
2) Via the Windows iSCSI manager, connect to said device on the Synology
3) Start the SBS console backup manager wizard, and get to the step where it says 'YOU NEED TO FORMAT THIS DRIVE IN ORDER TO USE IT'

So, being a wise man - I come to you dear internet strangers.  Is this iSCSI target smart enough to only format itself for the 500GB, or is it going to format the entire Synology box and set fire to the organization?

Forgive my ignorance here, but the SBS console has some powerful scripts and I want to make sure it doesn't go out of control when running this backup.

Cheers!

Today I started getting a problem with an SBS2003 server.
I know - don't tell me to upgrade and I shouldn't be running 2003 - anyway I can't migrate until I cvn fix this problem in order to do it!

The issue was no email arriving and Outlook couldn't connect.
the event log shows EVENTID 2114 from MSExchangeDSAccess and Services shows the Information Store is not loaded.
I cannot load the information store because I get an error about dependency services not starting.
In fact NetLogon won't start, Workstation service won't start and a number of others.

I tried running the IECW and it failed on all four sections, saying it had encountered an error in each case.

What can have suddenly gone wrong? This server has been running happily for years!
I have no idea where to start with this.
BTW I cannot access Remote Desktop either so I have to go to the server to do anything and it seems the server is not recognised as a member of the domain, as RDP says the remote computer cannot be accessed, maybe it is not part of this network...

HELP! I am email-less...

Thanks for any pointers - I know there's not much diagnostic info here but getting any logs off when I can't see the server from another computer is problematic.

Nick

SBS2008, Exchange server 2007.

About every other week the public folders contacts item is deleted. Not the folder but the content in it.

Very strange. I restore from backup so it's not a data situation rather a "what could be causing the issue?"

Pretty regularly - 1 or 2x a day, I get a popup on 1 computer (win 7 SP1, fully patched) about 'your computer is infected', we're from microsoft call us, etc.

I realize it's a scam.  But curious how it's getting on there.  I've run malwarebytes, superantispyware, hitmanpro and they don't find anything.

I am streaming a radio station based in NY.

Am I mistaken that the people running the malware buy ad space on legit websites and thats how they get on the machine?

these have been easy to get rid of - just close the browser by clikcing on the x in the top right corner (it takes over the tab the radio station was on, another indication that's where the malware is getting in from?).  I've seen other versions where you have to kill browsers through task manager or reboot the computer.

Hi,

I have an office that's running a Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2011 (Dell Poweredge) that's about 6 years old.  Let me preface this question with: I've inherited the server from the former technician who set it up--it would not be the way I would have originally set it up (all IT guys say that, right?).  

There has been some indications with this server that it's nearing the end of it's life.  The owners would like to look at going to "the cloud."  They have recently had a taste of Google Docs from moving many of their Microsoft Excel spreadsheets to Google Sheets and really like it.  I've let them know about the pros and cons to using Google Docs.  They were curious about Google versus Microsoft.  They're considering moving their email server to Google Apps so that everything is on Google.  Their end goal is to completely get rid of their server.  They still need active directory for their 10 workstations on the network but I was thinking that can be possibly done with Microsoft Azure.  

I've been fighting going to "the cloud" for years but the current is getting really strong to go to a cloud based solution.  My question is two fold.  Have you had experience going to Google Apps and Microsoft Office 365?  What are the pros and cons?  Also, for Active Directory.  I've had experience with Google Apps and Office 365 but not with Azure for Active Directory.  What are the pros and cons for going to something cloud based for Active Directory?  Any help or …

Been battling this for 2 days.

Sat morning at 6:30 am was receiving email from filter service Fusemail to server. At 7 am noticed emails being deferred and building up in a queue on Fusemail Portal. Nothing changed in these 15 minutes. Fusemail's portal says "error reading banner" on public IP of server and the remote. OWA mx record.

I have done the following to troubleshoot,

Rebooted several times.
Recreated default receive connectors,
Looked thru the IIS system, no issues.
Exchange 2010 IS sending emails as normal.
Double checked the MX records for Fusemail, They are accurate,
Entered the ip addresses of Fusemail servers in the Watchguard T30 FIrewall box to send mail to port 25 (they were NOT there before  but emails were coming in)
Can go to canyouseeme.org and enter the public IP and port 25, and it is OPEN,

All emails were coming in before any changes made. They simply stopped and they are of no real help, just saying "your server is not allowing connections".

If I cannot find the answer here, they are getting migrated to Office 365 asap.. They, like other businesses cannot be down on email for days..

Any ideas?

We were hoping this server would make it through the year.  It is a Microsoft 2003 Small business server.  When it boots up just before the login you get and error message lsass.exe system error.  I have looked it up and I have rebooted into Directory Services Mode/safe mode and do not know where to go from here.  In this mode I can access all data, I have internet access and I can see other computers on the network that are marked as shared.  I was even able to copy the entire data folder from the server to a workstations shared folder.  I have found several articles but none go into details about how to actually repair it.  Attached is a PDF of the error. I am not currently at the site but I can remote into the server with a Remote Desktop connection.