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Archive for July, 2010

Moving DHCP from Windows Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Microsoft Support KB article on moving your DHCP scope(s) using netsh - link

Comparison of Exchange ActiveSync clients (mobile devices)

Friday, July 16th, 2010

Great table on the features of ActiveSync and what each client (device) can do, - Wikipedia

Windows server backup fails consistency check of the Exchange database

Wednesday, July 14th, 2010

Trying to backup Exchange 2010 and purge transaction logs using the built-in Windows Server Backup app (Windows 2008).

- Backup completes but with warnings and log files won’t purge

-Found that the backup will run successful only if database files and the transaction log files on the same volume

Moved the transaction logs files via the EMC to the save volume as the databases and got past the consistency check failure issue, and got a good backup w/flushed logs.

Import NK2 file into Outlook 2010

Tuesday, July 13th, 2010

For some reason when using Outlook, all of the saved names/email addresses in the Outlook cache (.nk2) file was not being read by Outlook 2010. When looking at the .nk2 file in \user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Outlook it had been renamed to Outlook.nk2.old. When I renamed the .nk2 file back to Outlook.nk2 file, Outlook still would not use the autocomplete file. When having no .nk2 file Outlook didn’t create a .nk2 file either….weird. So, I found a way to import the .nk2 file in outlook: Close Outlook, go to the run window and type outlook.exe /importnk2

Microsoft Support KB - link