SCOM: “Critical hotfixes required for reliable operation of the Exchange Server 2010”–alerts on wrong servers

Whenever I install SCOM agent on new server, I get this alert. Alert description: Critical hotfixes required for reliable operation of the Exchange Server 2010 and other management packs are not installed on this server. Please see the appropriate KB article for more information, and to download the required hotfix Why would SCOM barking on … Continue reading SCOM: “Critical hotfixes required for reliable operation of the Exchange Server 2010”–alerts on wrong servers →

Awesome Text/ASCII Signatures for Emails

I am using one of the signature generated from this site: http://www.kammerl.de/ascii/AsciiSignature.php Those dudes did fantastic job on creating pretty awesome ASCII fonts. See some samples below. Generate one for your name and use it on your Outlook and other places.

Windows 7: Change to some cool Start Orbs

With this program (http://www.door2windows.com/windows-7-start-button-changer-change-your-windows-7-start-button-with-one-click/) you can change the Windows 7 Start Orb or button something cool. 1. Download the program from above link and save the program to known location. 2. Download some cool Start Orbs from here: http://browse.deviantart.com/customization/skins/windows7/startorbs/ 3. Right click on the downloaded file named “Windows 7 Start Orb Changer.exe” & run as … Continue reading Windows 7: Change to some cool Start Orbs →

SCOM 2007: The Scheduled Reports has no graphs, pretty pictures.

I am running SCOM 2007 R2 with CU4 and ‘frigging’ reports doesn’t show pretty pictures. Well it does show on ad-hot reports, but not in scheduled reports. After bitching for minute or two, I found the solution from blog from Taiwan CSS Platform Team (Here). Solution is simple enough. Follow the instructions below to fix … Continue reading SCOM 2007: The Scheduled Reports has no graphs, pretty pictures. →

Exchange 2010: List Database Size in Exchange Management Shell

Get-MailboxDatabase cmdlet comes in handy to check all mailbox database size quickly. Help for this cmdlet is available here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124924.aspx Here is the command and run it in Exchange Management Shell. Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | select ServerName,Name,DatabaseSize I am trying to write a script to gather database size every week and save it in one CSV … Continue reading Exchange 2010: List Database Size in Exchange Management Shell →

Windows Live Mesh: “Sorry, there was a problem allowing remote connections”

Are you trying to enable Remote Connections in Live Mesh settings and getting this generic error repeatedly? I know you tried everything, like Running Live Mesh with elevated privileges (run as admin), etc., Nothing worked, huh! You did search the internet and end up no where. Simple solution is uninstall the Windows Live Mesh completely … Continue reading Windows Live Mesh: “Sorry, there was a problem allowing remote connections” →

VBScript: Find Hostname from a IP Address

I had a requirement to find computer name from a list of IP addersses. I wrote the following vb script function for my requirement. I made it more generic function so any one can use it. Here it is. 'Function to find Hostname from IP address. To run this function, 'you have to be administrator … Continue reading VBScript: Find Hostname from a IP Address →

SCCM Reporting: "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator."

I installed Windows Update Services feature on my SCCM R2 server. WSUS site certainly screwed the reporting site settings. If you get the following messages, you are in right place. "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator." “You do not have permission to view this directory or … Continue reading SCCM Reporting: "An error occurred on the server when processing the URL. Please contact the system administrator." →

Exchange 2010: Unable to mount or switch over the database – Solution is here

If you getting the following frigging dialog box during activating a Database Copy or switching over the DAG server, no worries. There is a simple solution. To verify the content index catalog files are really failed or not, run the following command in Exchange 2010 Management Shell. Note: the server name would be mailbox server … Continue reading Exchange 2010: Unable to mount or switch over the database – Solution is here →

SCCM: How to verify “Distribution Point” available or not?

How would you check if software or OS deployment distribution point is available or not? May be you encountered distribution point errors during software or OS deployment. Follow the steps below: (this to check OSD distribution point) Open Configuration Manager Console Expand to System Center Configuration Manager / Site Database / Computer Management / Operating … Continue reading SCCM: How to verify “Distribution Point” available or not? →