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Exchange 2007: inbound email problems

Posted by Ivan
/ December 1, 2007 / Leave a comment

On my Exchange 2007 server inbound mail traffic did not work. I was able to send out emails, but when receiving the replies failed (all bounced). During the migration I configured a second mx record at my hosting provider. All undelivered emails were forwarded to the second mail server. My Outlook client was configured to the second POP3 mailbox...

Posted in Exchange
Microsoft Windows Vista SP1 KB936330 install failed

Posted by Ivan
/ November 29, 2007 / 3 Comments

Update: 2008/03/20 I see more and more people coming to my blog when searching for this KB article. The post below I published when I tried to install the SP1 during the test phases before it was available to public; unfortunately I was not able to get the SP1 installed; most probably...

Posted in Windows Vista
Exchange 2007: My first installation

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2007 / Leave a comment

The screen capture below shows the installation summery of my first Exchange Server 2007 ever. Exchange 2007 requires a 64bit Windows Server operating system. This was my opportunity to test the Windows Server 2008 RC0 Hypervisor on my new Intel Q6600 Quad Core system. Oeps 90 minutes in total ;(. Finally I...

Posted in Exchange
Windows Server 2008 Enterprise RC0 Hypervisor

Posted by Ivan
/ November 25, 2007 / Leave a comment

For 6 weeks I have been struggling with my emails on my new Q6600 server. Today I cleaned up my mailbox and organized all emails from last month. I also found a screenshot which I forwarded to my work email. This was my first experience with Microsoft preview of Hypervisor technology. Before the...

Posted in Hyper-V
Windows Live Writer

Posted by Ivan
/ November 11, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I was working on my notebook and I installed Windows Live Mail. I joined to Google Gmail and I wanted use Windows Live Mail as my mail client. Gmail supports the IMAP protocol and I wanted to see how this was working with a local mail client. Getting Google Adds...

Posted in Windows Live Writer
Windows Server 2008 Domain Join with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / 6 Comments

The following command will join the NET-IIS-01 workload into the Networknet.nl forest domain. Enter the Administrator password and after the netdom has finished reboot the server with shutdown.exe /r /t5.

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core IPv4 configuration

Posted by Ivan
/ October 16, 2007 / Leave a comment

View the installed interfaces netsh interface ipv4 show interfaces Configure the fixed IP address, netmask and the default gateway netsh interface ipv4 set address name=”nr” source=static address=192.168.1.1 mask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.1.254 Configure the DNS server netsh interface ipv4 add dnsserver name=”nr” address=192.168.1.1 index=1

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core License Activiation by Script

Posted by Ivan
/ October 15, 2007 / Leave a comment

Windows 2008 Core server does not support GUI and right clicking your computer and use the control panel options to activate the server is not available anymore. Copy the script below and supply your own license key code. Open notepad from command prompt. Eg notepad license.cmd; paste the the code below...

Posted in Core Server
Rename Windows Server 2008 Core with netdom.exe

Posted by Ivan
/ October 2, 2007 / 2 Comments

Type the hostname.exe command line to see the current computername which has been generated by the Windows setup. Select the computername and press enter on the keyboard. Now we are going to rename the server and prepare it for dcpromo process.

Posted in Core Server
Windows Server 2008 Core DC install Windows 2003 forest

Posted by Ivan
/ September 6, 2007 / Leave a comment

Today I installed my first Windows Server 2008 Core server. This new server should act as Active Directory Domain Controller. Windows Server 2008 release introduces Core Server concept. I wanted to learn more about Core Server and planned to install this server as additional domain controller. Just before promoting the new Core Server...

Posted in Core Server