Tag Archives: ADSIEDIT

"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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OWA calendaring issue "This action cannot be performed"

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

This post discusses a common Outlook Web Access (OWA) calendaring issue reported at most forums. I could not find a satisfactory answer posted anywhere, including eventID.net, so I thought I’d share the knowledge. A description of the problem: When a … Continue reading →

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How to specify the default Address List in OWA

Posted on January 31, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

By default, Microsoft Outlook Web Access shows all address lists in Active Directory, regardless of the permissions that are set on the address list. To restrict access so that users can only view the address lists that are contained in … Continue reading →

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How to bulk edit an Active Directory attribute

Posted on January 29, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

Everybody knows that if you want to manually edit the value for an attribute in Active Directory, you ought to be using ADSIEDIT. But what if you just realized that you have to modify a particular attribute for a large … Continue reading →

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When Setup fails: Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Role

Posted on January 28, 2008 by Shijaz Abdulla

I went ahead to install the mailbox server role on one of the brand new servers commissioned for Exchange Server 2007. The prerequisite checks went OK, and setup began doing the ‘real stuff’. Happiness was shortlived, because, towards the end … Continue reading →

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