Exchange 2003, 2007 & 2010 Topology discovery failed, error 0×80040a02 (DSC_E_NO_SUITABLE_CDC)
A client has been struggling with Exchange 2003 for some time now and I've got the project to roll out Exchange 2010. The first hurdle I come to is a new incarnation of a pre-existing problem from Exchange 2003 - simply put "Can't find a domain controller". Which means it can't mount the Information Store. Brill.
Lazy man’s Exchange 2010 PreReqs
Lazy? Yeah. Need to install all the Exchange 2010 prerequisites in no time at all?
Import-Module ServerManager
Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy -Restart
Set-Service NetTcpPortSharing -StartupType AutomaticCIFS/SMBFS “mount error 13 = Permission denied”
Are you getting a rather generic "mount error 13 = Permission denied" when trying to mount Windows shares in Linux? I was.
Samba's been updated, keep up. You need to add the domain=XXX into your -o command, or text file for your credentials.
Super simple Active Directory with Samba
I needed a super simple, straight forward way of installing samba on Ubuntu and joining it to an Active Directory domain.
This doesn't allow you to login to Ubuntu with domain credentials but allows you to share and access files with domain credentials.
Heres how its done
Problems installing System Center Essentials 2010
So, I spent 16 irreplaceable hours of my life trying to install System Center Essentials 2010 on both Server 2003 and Server 2008, both systems gave me the same, unhelpful error.
Here is the SCE setup log
Couldn’t send mail with MS SQL Server 2005
So I've been struggling trying to send SQL Agent job notifications to operators.
Msg 515, Level 16, State 2, Procedure sp_validate_user, Line 19
Cannot INSERT the value NULL INTO COLUMN 'permission path', TABLE '@temp'; COLUMN does NOT allow nulls. INSERT fails.
The statement has been terminated.
Msg 14636, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_send_dbmail, Line 107
No global profile IS configured. Specify a profile name IN the @profile_name parameter.[Snippet] Redirecting Non-SSL Traffic to SSL
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTPS} off
RewriteRule (.*) https://%{HTTP_HOST}%{REQUEST_URI}