RB.'s questions

I have an MSI installer which registers an ActiveX component. The registration info is written to the HKEY_CURRENT_USER hive, and all works fine and dandy.

For one user, however, IE is behaving as though the component is not registered. I've looked in the registry and the registration is there in HKCU. However, it doesn't appear in HKCR, which is really strange as that should be a merged view of HKCU\Software\Classes and HKLM\Software\Classes.

I've also noticed that the registration appears in

HK_USERS\<sid>\Software\Classes\CLSID\

but not in

HK_USERS\<sid>_Classes\CLSID\

The only way I can get it to work for her is to write the registration information to

HK_USERS\<sid>_Classes\CLSID\<GUID>\

at which point everything works perfectly.

Any ideas why this is?

I have an IIS7.5 web-site, on Windows Server 2008, with an ASP.NET MVC2 web-site deployed to it. The website was built in Visual Studio 2008, targeting .NET 3.5, and IIS 5.1 has been successfully configured to run it as well, for local testing.

We've installed the world's simplest MVC application (the one which is created when you create a new MVC2 project in Visual Studio), and we are getting 404s on any page we try and access - e.g. <my_server>/Home/About will generate a 404.

I've asked this question on StackOverflow as well, but that was before I knew it was a server issue.

I have checked the following things:

• There are 404 entries in the IIS log, corresponding to each request.
• The application pool for the web-site is set to use the Integrated pipeline.
• The "customErrors" mode is set to off.
• .NET 3.5 SP1 is installed
• ASP.NET MVC 2 is installed
• I've used MVC Diagnostics to confirm all MVC DLLs are being found.
• ASP.NET is enabled in IIS, which we've demonstrated by running the MVC Diagnostics page.
• KB 2023146 did highlight that HTTP Redirection was off, so we've turned it on, but no joy.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated!

Someone did suggest that there might be problems running it caused by Windows Server 2008 being 64-bit - does anyone know anything about this?

I would like to set up Exchange so that when a user (e.g. [email protected]) sends an email to somedomain.com Exchange makes the email appear to have come from [email protected].

This would have to be done on a per-domain basis, and invisibly to the user. So all emails come from [email protected], except emails to somedomain.com, which appear to come from [email protected].

If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it.

Cheers,

RB.

We have ISA Server 2004 running on Windows Server 2003 SP2.

It has 2 NICs - one internal called LAN on 192.168.16.2, with a subnet of 255.255.255.0, and one external called WAN on 93.x.x.2. The default gateway is 93.x.x.1 (our modem). This machine also accepts VPN connections.

We are having a problem with a scanner, which is trying to save a scan into a network share.

Every time we try to scan, ISA Server logs the following Denied Connection

• Log type: Firewall service
• Status: A packet was dropped because ISA Server determined that the source IP address is spoofed.
• Rule:
• Source: Internal ( 192.168.16.54:1024)
• Destination: Internal ( 192.168.16.255:137)
• Protocol: NetBios Name Service

Pinging 192.168.16.54 from the ISA Server works fine.

In ISA Server, going into Configuration → Networks, there are 5 Networks : - External (inbuilt) - Internal (defined as 192.168.16.0 → 192.168.16.255) - Local Host (inbuilt) - Quarantined VPN Clients (inbuilt) - VPN Clients (inbuilt)

Finally, under Network Connections → Advanced → Advanced Settings..., the connections are in the following order : - LAN - WAN - [Remote Access Connections]

If we try to scan onto a workstation it works fine.

Please let me know if you need any more info - many thanks.

RB.

I'm having a problem replicating public folders between two Exchange 2003 servers.

Server A (our original server) is hosted on Windows Small Business Server 2003.

Server B (our new server) is hosted on Windows Server 2003.

Both systems are fully patched with latest updates and service packs for both Windows and Exchange.

The problem I am having is that the Public Folders won't replicate in either direction. I have configured the replication, and can see the replication messages being transferred between the two servers using the Message Tracking Center. However, I notice that the last line for any replication message reads :

 SMTP: Message Queued for Local Delivery

but the message does not actually get stored, suggesting the problem lies here.

I turned on various logging options, and I get the following error in my Application log (1 for each PF which is replicating)

Event Type: Error
Event Source:   MSExchangeTransport
Event Category: SMTP Protocol 
Event ID:   7010
Date:       06/01/2010
Time:       15:47:13
User:       N/A
Computer:   MAIL
Description:
This is an SMTP protocol log for virtual server ID 1, connection #5. 
The client at "192.168.16.2" sent a "xexch50" command, and the SMTP 
server responded with "504 Need to authenticate first  ". The full 
command sent was "xexch50 2904 2".  This will probably cause the 
connection to fail. 

Note that 192.168.16.2 is Server A, and that this message was received on Server B's event log.

I've also received this error (again, 1 error for each PF being replicated)

Event Type: Information
Event Source:   MSExchangeTransport
Event Category: Categorizer 
Event ID:   9013
Date:       06/01/2010
Time:       16:57:56
User:       N/A
Computer:   MAIL
Description:
A message from 'smtp:[email protected]' could not be delivered 
because the sender does not have permission to send to recipient 
'smtp:[email protected]'. This is due to a delivery restriction 
configured on the recipient. (Message-ID: [REMOVED]). A DSN will be generated.

I've had a look at KB843106 and verified that Integrated Windows Authentication is enabled on both SMTP virtual servers, but don't really know where to go from here. Any ideas?

Things I've Verified

• Both servers are members of the Exchange Domain Servers group.
• Server A (the SBS server) is a member of : Domain Controllers; Exchange Domain Servers; RAS and IAS servers.
• Server B (the 2003 server) is a member of : Cert Publishers; Domain Computers; Exchange Domain Servers.

Default SMTP Virtual Server settings

Server A (internet facing machine)

• Postini's IP address has been added as an IP which can relay.
• Authentication Methods :
• Anonymous Access : Ticked
• Basic authentication : Ticked
• Integrated Windows Authentication : Ticked
• Delivery -> Advanced Delivery -> FQDN = servera.domain.local
• Delivery -> Advanced Delivery -> Smart Host = [blank]
• Delivery -> Outbound Security -> Anonymous Access is selected.

Server B

As above, except - Delivery -> Advanced Delivery -> FQDN = serverb.domain.local

We have 2 Exchange 2003 mail servers (mail_old and mail_new) in the same administrative group. mail_new has one user on it, while mail_old has all our other users on it and is internet facing. We use Google's Postini service to send emails out.

The problem we are having is that emails to the user on mail_new are sitting in a queue called mail_new.domain.local, rather than being sent for local delivery.

Using the message tracking center, the following events are noted :

SMTP: Message Submitted to Advanced Queuing
SMTP: Started Message Submission to Advanced Queue
SMTP: Message Submitted to Categorizer
SMTP: Message Routed and Queued for Remote Delivery
STMP: Started Outbound Transfer of Message 

Therefore, I think that the problem is that the email should be being queued for Local Delivery, but it's not. Any ideas on how to fix this?

A bit more information. Our SMTP virtual server on both mail-servers use Postini's server as a smart-host. We have 1 SMTP connector with the following settings :

Address Spaces
  domain.co.uk
  domain.local
Connector scope : Entire Organization
Allow messages to be relayed to these domains : unchecked

Use DNS to route to each address space on this connector : checked
Local Bridgeheads
     mail_old "Default SMTP Virtual Server"

Any ideas anyone?

I recently had to restore our primary domain controller from a backup, but the backup was taken before a mailbox was moved (from mail1 to mail2). The user now has the problem that they cannot access their email. This appears to be because Outlook is looking for the emails on mail1.domain.com, whereas the actual emails are on mail2.domain.com.

In AD, the users "Mailbox Store" attribute is set to "MAIL1/First Storage Group/Mailbox Store (MAIL1)".

In event viewer on MAIl1 (which is also our PDC), the following event is logged :

Event Type: Error
Event Source:   MSExchangeIS Mailbox Store
Event Category: General 
Event ID:   1205
Date:       26/10/2009
Time:       09:30:49
User:       N/A
Computer:   MAIL1
Description:
Failed to create the mailbox of 
/o=DOMAIN/ou=first administrative group/cn=Recipients/cn=<user> with error 0x50c. 

How can I tell AD where the mailbox is correctly located?

I want to edit a user's "personalTitle" field in Active Directory, but cannot find where it is stored in "Active Directory Users and Computers".

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thanks,

RB.