I had a requirement to delete directories by wildcard. Unfortunately RMDIR  User* will not work in command prompt. I found the answer in PowerShell. The following command delete a bunch of folders by wildcard selection.   The following command deletes all folders starting with "2008*" under C:program FilesDBappLogs.   get-childitem -path 'C:Program FilesDBappLogs' -filter 2008* | … Continue reading How to Delete folders by wildcard search? Answer: use PowerShell →

WScript provides a function called Sleep. You can use sleep function to pause the script for specified milliseconds. Yeah! all good. But I wanted to pause the script for few minutes (sometimes more than 30 minutes). Specifing 15 minutes in milliseconds means 900000, 30 minutes means 1800000 milliseconds. I didn't wan to deal with bigger … Continue reading VBScript: Sleep function (or Wait for few minutes) →

A user was complaining he can’t send meeting request or some emails to specific users. The user gets bounced mail (NDR) and NDR has the following error message. This message could not be sent. Try sending the message again later, or contact your network administrator. The client operation failed. Error is [0x80004005-0x0004b9-0x000501]. I do realize … Continue reading The client operation failed. Error is [0x80004005-0x0004b9-0x000501] (Tip: You moved some mailboxes lately) →

You will see Event ID 3055 and 10006 on your Exchange cluster node. In Event Id 10006, you will also see this error message: 80070002 - The system cannot find the file specified.. When this occurred to me I simply restored the search service files to the original location and that resolved my issue. I … Continue reading MS Search Service Instance refused to come online in Clustered Exchange Server →

If you are trying to P2V a server and VMWare converter fails with this error messge "Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.", you came to right place.Answer … Continue reading VMWare Converter fails with the error message “Multiple connections to a server or shared resource by the same user, using more than one user name, are not allowed. Disconnect all previous connections to the server or shared resource and try again.” →

It’s bit old tip. But if you still run Exchange Server 2003, you can use this to tweak your security settings very easily. By default the security tab is disabled for most objects, e.g., Organization.  The following steps to add a registry entry to enable the security tab for the Exchange System Manager. 1. Run … Continue reading Exchange Server 2003: Enable Security Tab for all objects including Organization →

I got this error message ("The directory property cannot be found in the cache")in ADAM when I try to open ADSIEdit.msc.  I try to troubleshoot by restarting the ADAM service and few other things with no success. I found the this MSKB 958973 and the resolution in this KB resolved my issue. Link: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/958973

After you moved bunch of mailboxes between servers or databases, you may find users can’t logon to their mailboxes. You will see the Event ID 1022 logged in Application Logs. Event Type:     ErrorEvent Source:   MSExchangeIS Mailbox StoreEvent Category: LogonsEvent ID:       1022Date:           5/6/2009Time:           10:50:10 AMUser:           N/AComputer:   ExchangeServer    Description:Logon Failure on database "StorageGroupDatabase" - Windows 2000 account … Continue reading Exchange 2003: Logon Failure after Mailbox Move →

After you added a physical disk resource to the SQL cluster group, if you don’t see your drive in SQL management studio (console), you should know that you need to add the new physical disk as dependency to the SQL service. When you get this error message upon adding the disk as dependency, this blog … Continue reading How to add a Physical Disk Resource to the SQL Cluster Group? →

On my Windows 2008 (AD) Certificate services console I get this error message when I try to add a Web Server Certificate Request file. 0x80094801 - the request contains no certificate template information The solution is to import the Certificate Request in command line with CertReq tool.  Use the following command to import your Certificate … Continue reading 0x80094801 – the request contains no certificate template information →