Tuesday, November 30, 2010

The Case of the Unexplained, 2010: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich

The Case of the Unexplained, 2010: Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich

I need to use the sysinternals suite of tools tomorrow and I thought I would refresh my knowledge on the suite by reviewing mark's video online in the excellent case of the unexplained 2010. Really interesting video and can give an administrator the edge in identifying exactly what the problem was.

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Test your internet connection

Test your internet connection via google mlab. Its a cool site to keep in your favorites as it can tell you if isp's are throttling torrents etc..

Wednesday, November 17, 2010

MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit

MOSDAL (Microsoft Online Services Diagnostics and Logging) Support Toolkit

Great tool for troubleshooting Microsoft Online Services a bit like OCS and Exchange Remote Connectivity Analyzer

How to remove Trend Micro Client/Server Security Agent without password

Simply change this key to 1

HKLM\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\Misc.\Allow Uninstall = 0 original key

HKLM\SOFTWARE\TrendMicro\PC-cillinNTCorp\CurrentVersion\Misc.\Allow Uninstall = 1
new key

Thursday, November 4, 2010

Exchange 07/10 Connectiontimeout Interval

When email is being protected by an external cloud based solution the default connectiontimeout interval for exchange 07/10 is 10 minutes. And normally this is not enough for eg. Forefront Online , Postini, Messagelabs.

So here is some powershell commands to resolve the issue.

Firstly Get-ReceiveConnector | fl Id*,*connectiontime*

Change the ConnectionTimeOut value

Set-Receiveconnector -ConnectionTimeOut 00:20:00

Name of connector is specified by ServerName\receive connector name