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Monday, May 4, 2009

Cannot Upgrade from Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 to Windows 2003 Service Pack 2

Description:
You are having an issue when trying to upgrade your Windows 2003 Service Pack 1 server to Windows 2003 Service Pack 2. The upgrade process runs for a while and stops in the middle because of WMI error. You cannot do the upgrade from Add/Remove program too.

Resolution:
The issue cause by some corrupt files inside %windir%\system32\wbem\repository. Files in this folder is the database of WMI, if the files in this folder are corrupt, the WMI service will not work correctly. Delete the files in the folder %windir%\system32\wbem\repository. After restart the WMI service again, the files in this folder will be rebuilt again.
Below is the script to do it automatically:
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sc config winmgmt start= disabled
net stop winmgmt /y
%systemdrive%
cd %windir%\system32\wbem
if exist repository.old rmdir /s/q repository.old
rename repository repository.old
for /f %%s in ('dir /b /s %windir%\system32\wbem\*.dll') do regsvr32 /s %%s
regsvr32 /s %windir%\system32\tscfgwmi.dll
wmiprvse /regserver
winmgmt /regserver
sc config winmgmt start= auto
net start winmgmt
for /f %%s in ('dir /b *.mof') do mofcomp %%s
for /f %%s in ('dir /b *.mfl') do mofcomp %%s

Invalid FSMO Role Owner for Application Partition

Description:
When running the ADRAP program you found the following warning/error.
The following application partition contains an invalid FSMO role owner:
Partition: cn=infrastructure,dc=forestdnszones,dc=corp,dc=com
FSMO:CN=NTDS Settings\0ADEL:97d…,CN=Server01\0ADEL:67…,CN=Servers,CN=SITEA,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=corp,DC=com

Resolution:
Use adsiedit.msc and reset the fSMORoleOwner attribute on the infrastructure master of your root domain. Use the value from Distinguished Name (DN) attribute of the corresponding application partition as the new value. You may need to use an account which has Enterprise Admin permission.

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Exchange 2007 High Level Sample Design

Design I:
· Role separation
· No redundancy

Design II:
· Local Continuous Replication (LCR)


Design III:
· Single Copy Cluster (SCC)
Design IV:
· Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR)

Monday, April 27, 2009

Group Policy for safe sender lists in Outlook 2007 does not work

Description:
You have set Outlook 2007 safe sender list through GPO however it isn’t applying to users. You’ve check that the GPO was applied successfully.

Resolution:
Change the safe sender list path to
\\servername\sharefolder\filename. It cannot use the %logonserver%\sharefolder syntax.

Proxy Exception at Internet Explorer does not work

Description:
You have set proxy exception for IE through Group Policy (GPO). For some reason the setting won’t apply to user’s computer. You verified that the GPO has the right setting and has no conflict with other GPO. You also confirmed that the GPO was applied to user’s computer, but the computer registry contains different data.

Resolution:
Please check the exception list content. Make sure there’s no invalid character or value. If the http address in Proxy Exception list contains more than two “/” characters, the IE Branding extension would accept this setting. You should remove the rest of the “/” from the http address in proxy exception list.

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