To give a user full mailbox rights, to be able to send meeting requests as another user do the following:

1. Open Migration Command Shell

2. Type: Add-MSOnlineMailPermission –Identity UserName1@DomainName -TrustedUser UserName2@DomainName -GrantFullAccess $True

Where username1 is the mailbox that you want to give Username2 permission to

3. Enter the proper admin credentials and make sure that the command shell replies with Successfully granted user account username1.domain.com full access permission to mailbox username2@domain.com

When installing SBS 2011 in migration mode it replicates Active Directory during the install. If it fails the SBS 2011 installation won’t complete. When looking at the File Replication Service in the Event Viewer, and you have NtFrs errors preventing replication, it won’t finish. Change the registry entry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup\BurFlags to D4. Then go to command prompt and stop the ntfrs service “net stop ntfrs”, when it stops, restart it, “net start ntfrs”

Check the File Replication Service event logs and see if the NtFrs event logs are Information now instead of Error.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/840674

If you want to replicate ntfrs to another server use “D4″, if you want to replicated from another server use “D2″ in the registry.

Look for the “pdc32.dll” and the “wps32.dll” within the Windows\System32 (and/or Windows\SysWoW64) directory and rename them to *.old. Then run the Nsetup again to correct this issue.

1. Download MOS Migration tool from below url :
Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools (32 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=9ed5f4c1-7f0b-4506-a214-32093af6147a&displaylang=en

Microsoft Online Services Migration Tools (64 bit)
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=5547634c-5e49-4dbd-b6b0-457b38a75f33&displaylang=en

2. Log in to Administration Center for domain in BPOS-S and create a contact for the email address to whom you want to forward emails.

3. Launch the ‘Migration Command Shell’ from your programs folder.

4. Use the below cmdlet to set external forwarding.

Set-MSOnlineAlternateRecipient -Identity <email address of your hosted account> -AlternateRecipient <email address to forward to> -DeliverToBoth $true

Example: Set-MSOnlineAlternateRecipient -Identity name@kazmarek.com -AlternateRecipient name@gmail.com -DeliverToBoth $true

*Note: The ‘$true’ on the end means it will leave a copy and forward. Change to ‘$false’ and it will only forward and not fill up mailbox.

*Note: If you want to remove a forwarder:

Clear-MSOnlineAlternateRecipient -Identity <email of hosted account>

Example: Clear-MSOnlineAlternateRecipient -Identity name@kazmarek.com

Great blog post on redirecting OWA URL’s for Exchange 2010 on WS08 R2, tested and it works.

http://briandesmond.com/blog/redirecting-owa-urls-in-exchange-2010/

Had some trouble recently getting clients setup with Microsoft Exchange Online services on a mobile device. Here’s the settings that worked for me.



IPhone
——
Email: user@domain.com
Server: red001.mail.microsoftonline.com (Do no included the HTTPS:\\ portion of address)
Domain: Should be left blank
Username: user@domain.com
Password: ******** (The users BPOS/Exchange Online password)



Blackberry
——
Email account: user@domain.com
Web Access URL: https://red001.mail.microsoftonline.com/owa (be sure to include the https:// and trailing /owa)
Username: user@domain.com
Password: ******** (The users BPOS/Exchange Online password)
Mailbox Name: user (just the prefix of their email address)

Recently encountered problems getting Windows Explorer shell to load in Windows XP after cleaning a spyware infection.  I found there are two registry keys that are critical in relation to loading explorer on boot,  you should check them first if you even encounter a problem getting Explorer.exe to load.


HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon



shell=”explorer.exe”



HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon


userinit=C:\windows\system32\userinit.exe


Watch out for trailing comma’s on userinit.exe  (userinit.exe, ) as this is where malware likes to insert itself to load during windows startup.

With Small Business Server 2008, you have the option to use a third party SSL certificate or the default self-signed SSL certificate. By default the self-signed certificate is valid for two years, but how to you renew it without interrupting OWA, Outlook, and Exchange? When the certificate is expired, Outlook 2007/2010 will give you an error message when opening, that the certificate is not valid. Here are the steps to fix it.

1. Goto the Windows SBS Console, click on Network Tab, then Connectivity Tab
2. Click on the certificate icon, then click the “view certificate properties” in the right pane. In the General tab of the new window, it will show the dates that the self-signed certificate is valid for.
3. In the “Connectivity Tasks” area, click “setup your Internet address”, go through the wizard to renew your self-signed SSL certificate.
4. When you now check the certififcate properties, you will see that it is now valid for another two more years.

To add mailbox permissions to other users in Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services (BPOS).

Add-MSOnlineMailPermission -Identity user@example.com -TrustedUser admin@example.com –GrantFullAccess True –GrantSendAs True

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee662271.aspx

Get Mailbox size settings from Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services

Get-XsHostedExchangeMailbox -SourceServer red001.mail.microsoftonline.com -SourceIdentity user@domain.com -SourceAdminCredential $cred -SourceDetail Full

http://blogs.pointbridge.com/Blogs/schertz_jeff/Pages/Post.aspx?_ID=85 (more…)

Thawte now is conforming to the new 2048 bit standard for their SSL certificates, which will require you to install two intermediate certificates on your server before they work and is validated. Below are the links to the articles and intermediate certificates. Download both certificates and import them into the “Intermediate Certificate Authority” in the Certificates MMC.

Thawte Intermediate and Cross Root CAs - link

Primary and Secondary Intermediate CAs - link