Are you trying export mailbox into a PST (or import PST into mailbox)? And you are stuck here with this message. Unable to open PST file '\\FileServer\Share\JohnDoe.pst'. Error details: Access to the path '\\FileServer\Share\JohnDoe.pst' is denied.; Microsoft.Exchange.MailboxReplicationService.RemotePermanentException: Access to the path '\\FileServer\Share\JohnDoe.pst' is denied. There is a simple explanation and solution. Mailbox Import and Export … Continue reading Exchange 2010: New-MailboxExportRequest–“Access to the path is denied” →

Windows 7 collects all the crashes, driver issues and other problems. It also sends those information to Microsoft servers, if you are OK with it. You can check reliability of your computer using Reliability Monitor program. To to get this report, Click Windows button and type Reliability. Select View Reliability History from the search results … Continue reading Windows 7: How reliable is your computer? →

What’s great about PNotes? It’s portable. You can format the text anyway you want. You can have Pictures. You can have bullet points, numbered lists. You can even password protect the notes. It has some pretty good skins at developer’s website. Here is how I use it. I store the portal Pnotes program at my … Continue reading PNotes: Free Wonderful Sticky Notes Program →

I couldn’t find a why to add all employees who works under an VP to an Active Directory group. I end up writing my own script and scheduled it to update it every week. If you are interested, copy/paste the following script into notepad and save it as PopulateGroupByManager.ps1. Run with Manager/Director/VP’s username or distinguished … Continue reading PowerShell: Add all users who works for a manager/director/VP to a group →

So you created an static DNS entry (or dynamically created) for new host/server. Now if we try to ping using the host name, ping throws an nasty error. Ping request could not find host “HostName”. Please check the name and try again Funny thing is you can ping by IP Address. You may ping using … Continue reading Fix: Ping request could not find host “FQDN of Host Name”. Please check the name and try again. →

Is your Citrix/RDS sessions constantly opens sneaky Java Update popup box? I know you tried log on as Administrator and disable the Java updates (Control Panal/Java settings). It didn’t help, isn’t? Well it supposed to disable the updates permanently. But it doesn’t. What’s up with million update every month, Oracle??? I wish developer don’t develop … Continue reading Stop/Kill/Destroy the frigging Java Update popup forever →

If you get the following error message, it means that Internet Explorer cannot display Data Sheet View of the Access database from the SharePoint site. It also means you have install Microsoft Office Standard version on your computer. Office Standard doesn’t come with Access software, thus this error. There is a easy fix. Download and … Continue reading SharePoint Data Sheet View: “The list cannot be disabled in DataSheet view for one or more of the…” →

It turn out to be exporting message tracking results to a CSV file is not THAT easy. To get the message tracking log, Exchange shell has Get-MesssageTrackingLog cmdlet. Say we run the following command and export the results to CSV. get-messagetrackinglog -Sender "SuperMan@DailyMail.com" -Server "DMMail2Server" -Start "6/13/2012 12:45:00 PM" -End "6/13/2012 1:35:00 PM" | Export-CSV … Continue reading Exchange 2010: How to export Message Tracking results to Excel Sheet? →

If you want a quick Org Chart extract from Active Directory, you have come to right place. I wrote a script just for that. Obviously the requirement for this script are “manager” field in every user properties has to be populated Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell has to be installed on your computer Download … Continue reading Crawl and Display Organization Chart using Manager and directReports field in Active Directory →

I had a special need to disable Outlook Anywhere for few mailboxes.  Outlook profile created automatically with help from Auto Discover feature. It also enables Outlook Anywhere automatically. You may go into Outlook profile and disable the Proxy settings (Outlook Anywhere). Believe me, it will be enabled again when next time Outlook is started. To … Continue reading Exchange 2010: Disable Outlook Anywhere feature for specific Mailboxes →