Tag Archives: Active Directory

Problems logging in to new Exchange Server 2007 mailboxes via OWA

Posted on October 19, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

Sometimes users may face problems logging in to new mailboxes created or moved in to Exchange Server 2007 when they use Outlook Web Access. Users may get error messages like the one below (abridged): Request Url: https://webmail.company.com:443/owa/lang.owa User host address: … Continue reading →

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Increasing the number of objects returned in a single LDAP query

Posted on October 9, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

By default, windows returns only a maximum of 1000 objects in response to a single LDAP query. This can be a limitation when you have more than 1000 objects in your Active Directory and you are running some kind of … Continue reading →

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Creating Exchange 2007 mailboxes through AD attributes

Posted on July 30, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

If you are using a third-party/home-grown application or script to provision user accounts and mailboxes, you can still create mailboxes by populating Active Directory attributes. The recommended way would be to use PowerShell aka Exchange Management Shell or the Exchange … Continue reading →

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Managing changes to legacyExchangeDN

Posted on July 24, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

If you had to change the legacyExchangeDN for your users as part of a migration or other manual process, or even an error in your automated user provisioning software, there are certain things that you need to be aware of. … Continue reading →

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Comparing attributes of objects in Active Directory

Posted on July 13, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

This is more a Microsoft Word tip rather than an Active Directory tip. In essence, it shows one of the many methods to compare values of all attributes of two different objects in Active Directory, or of the same object … Continue reading →

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"Failure [0xC3EC7814] Pool is not ready" while adding OCS Server to Pool

Posted on May 19, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

I was trying to get Office Communications Server 2007 (OCS) to work on our environment for the past few days and ran into some challenging issues. OCS 2007 is being installed on Windows Server 2003 x64 R2 with SP2, and … Continue reading →

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