Archive for July, 2008

07.29.08

Using Exmerge with SBS 2003

Posted in OS, SBS2003, Exchange, sbs2008 at 9:16 pm by webmaster

Sometimes you want to perform a migration where you want to manually migrate the mail - in a semi-automatic fashion.   Exmerge is a tool that can be employed to do just that.

Because the domain administrator has explicit deny permissions set by default which restricts the domain administrator from accessing the users mailboxes to perform either exports or imports, additional steps must be used to perform this taks

Preparing a User Account to use Exmerge

Here is a method that I employed to allow Create a user account

  1. Create a regular user account (exmergeusr)
  2. Create a regular security group (exmergegrp)
  3. Add the exmergeusr to exmergegrp
  4. Add the exmerge user account to the local administrators group

There is also a way to enable the security tab of the exchange system manager so you can disable the explcit deny permissions for the domain administrator (temporarily)  http://www.computerperformance.co.uk/Registry/registry_hacks_exchange.htm

Now you are all ready to start using Exmerge.

Preparing to use Exmerge

  1. download exmerge
  2. unzip
  3. copy C:\Program Files\Exchsrvr\bin\exchmem.dll to exmerge folder http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297362
  4. Check destination disk space (for export) is 1.5 times store size
  5. Create pst folder to hold the pst files you will be exporting
  6. Run Exmerge to export to pst files on the source server
  7. Repeat the above procedure on the destination server to import from pst files on the destination server

Using Exmerge

Running Exmerge goes something like this 

  1. run exmerge
    next
  2. select 2 step
  3. select 1 for export 2 for import
  4. MSE server name  SERVERNAME
  5. dc   SERVERNAME
  6. Options –> Data first 2
  7. Options –> Import Merge (second option)
  8. Select mbox, select English locale
  9. select the destination for pst files if exporting or the source of pst files for importing

For SBS2008 these methods may work  http://www.exchangeinbox.com/article.aspx?i=88

07.22.08

SBS2008 Version

Posted in OS, sbs2008 at 5:11 pm by webmaster

To obtain the version of SBS2008 that you are running perform one of the following:

  1. Look at the properties of the following file on DVD1
    1. Setup.exe
  2. Look at the properties of the following file on an already installed system
    1. c:\program files\windows small business server\bin\sbssetup.exe

07.09.08

Disable Internet Explorer enhanced security configuration in Windows/SBS 2008

Posted in OS at 1:13 am by webmaster

Sometimes in a sandbox environment you want to disable IE’s enhanced security configuration so you can get more work done in a quicker timeframe. 

In Windows 2003/SBS 2003 you used to navigate to add/remove programs and remove the “Internet Explorer enhanced security configuration” entry.

 In Windows 2008 you can accomplish this same feat by:

  1. Start Server Manager  Start –> Server Manager)
  2. Click on Configure IE ESC
  3. Disable for Administrators or all users

07.03.08

KB948496 & Broadcom NICs

Posted in OS at 11:56 am by webmaster

There are some reports out there that KB948496 causes some issues for Broadcom NICs.

See this thread for more information.