tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38088997600756599482024-03-13T21:09:31.128+05:30Bikram's BlogJust taking time out to share what problems, challenges I faced and how I resolved them. Another day in life of an IT Guy. testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-23101813831230028272024-01-22T14:54:00.004+05:302024-01-22T14:54:31.684+05:30Upgrade Azure ADsync 1.6 to 2.3 After a very long break, posting in new blog on upgrading ADsync to latest version.I was having version 1.6.4 running and doing its job well enough that I didn't brother to upgrade it to Latest version.Today my team notified that ADsync was not working prom past 8 hours, I checked on server and tried to have a manual run of the same but got error "Unable to retrieve the Azure Active testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-56692045226891286042018-06-17T11:37:00.001+05:302018-06-17T11:37:21.677+05:30IMA ADPCM CODEC 80000Khz 4Bit MONO Format for Phone SystemsToday I had a challenging task of setting up Auto Attendant on a Panasonic phone system. We required to record a Greeting message and upload it to the phone system. It seamed that simple.After recording it and while trying to upload it to the Phone system, it rejected the recording stating that it was not in acceptable format. and we were greeted with following popup.Now what’s that? I testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-32864286380293453362018-05-24T19:10:00.001+05:302018-05-24T19:30:41.771+05:30Checking Exchange Mailstore Database Seed Status Percentage completion and Copy SpeedToday one of my DAG database started giving issues, I had to delete and create new DAG DB copy. but I was not able to get what is the status of the Copied data, What is Speed of copying?? So here is the magical command which revealed all that information.Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatusLet us suppose you have a Exchange server named EX02The database here which is seeding is named MailDB01So we testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-78333667216967580892018-05-07T14:27:00.001+05:302018-05-07T20:37:07.078+05:30Outlook SSL Security Alert Certificate Name is Invalid
Our Exchange Certificate expired and we had to renew the SSL. after deploying the new SSL, some users started getting SSL security Alert on their outlook’s
No all users but some, after seeing the screenshot we narrowed it down to that the SSL is ok but the Security alert is about One of the DAG Server Name not included into the SSL. so I knew that this has to do with Autodiscover URL.
I logged testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-32229757367031235722018-05-03T16:33:00.001+05:302018-05-03T16:33:27.662+05:30OWA ERROR Something Went Wrong, Your Account is disabledToday one of our user faced an issue when he was trying to access his account from OWA. he was greeted with Error as shown in above screenshot.His Outlook & Mobile devices were working fine. so I had to do following to clear the Issue from Exchange Management Shell EMSRan the Following command to check if OWA was Disabled for the userGet-CASMailbox affecteduser | fl Name,OWAEnabledand got testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-25083138258067214302018-04-27T16:13:00.001+05:302018-04-27T16:13:20.404+05:30SharePoint 2016 Cross domain and Trusted domain users access & rightsToday, one of my client approached me and requested me to make provision in his SharePoint environment for providing access to the users which are in their trusted domains. so, here is the scenario and the solution…There is a Domain One.Domain.net and a second domain as Two.Domain.com, it has a two-way trust enabled amongst them. SharePoint is in One.Domain.net and the name of server is testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-44062197016417289682018-04-17T23:38:00.001+05:302018-04-17T23:42:00.583+05:30Lenovo Laptop Brightness IssueToday I faced a very peculiar issue, we had a display driver update for our Lenovo Laptops Z500 and suddenly the brightness went to 0 no matter what we did, nor even the reboot resolved the issue.finally this registry setting did the trick.[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Class\{4d36e968-e325-11ce-bfc1-08002be10318}\0000]
"FeatureTestControl"=dword:0000f048Changed the dword from testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-56005617526058605192018-04-16T22:53:00.000+05:302018-04-16T23:14:49.593+05:30Outlook keeps prompting for password Exchange 2013 / 2016Like any Exchange admin I too came accross connectivity issues from Outlook client to ExchangeThe issues which I faced with both Exchange 2013 & 2016, with Outlook 2013 & 2016, it kept on asking the users for password, no matter what I did, the issue could not be resolved. Finally the following steps resolved this issue and all users are now happy.lets us assume we have mail domain as testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-37282512633759719132018-04-16T21:15:00.000+05:302018-04-16T23:15:51.659+05:30FileZilla Error 425 Can't open data connection Failed to retrieve directory listI was configuring a FileZilla FTP server on Azure windows VM, the client was able to connect & authorize but got errorCommand: LIST
Response: 425 Can't open data connection.
Error: Failed to retrieve directory listso to resolve this issue I did followingOpen FileZilla settings1) Select Passive mode settings2) Select Use custom ports and enter range of ports what ever you like, I used testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-81408356965772591832016-07-26T11:33:00.001+05:302016-07-26T11:33:40.225+05:30Exchange 2013 DAG Database SEED ERROR / ADD ERROR
Hi,
For some reason My DAG database copies started to FAIL,
Error: Failed to open a log truncation context to source server ‘Ex2013_01.Mail.Com’. Hresult: 0xc7ff1004. Error: Error returned from an ESE function call (-1305).
Resolution:
Source Server : Ex2013_01.Mail.Com
Target/failing server : Ex2013_02.Mail.Com
Database name: DB2
DB location : D:/Database
Logs Location: D:/testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-58000716064572257912014-03-18T19:00:00.004+05:302014-03-18T19:04:50.756+05:30Outlook 2007 keeps on disconnecting from Exchange
One of our user was having issue of frequent disconnection and reconnection to exchange server
Now... the issue is not with Exchange, Internet, VPN tunnel etc. etc.... as suggested all around the internet...
Its with regestry settings on Client side, for connection timeout... Dont know how it got messed up....
Following steps require you to edit registry. PLEASE TAKE A BACKUP BEFORE GOING testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-78869678922037459192014-02-28T16:55:00.002+05:302014-02-28T16:55:26.897+05:30Intel Pro 1000 LAN Drivers for Server 2003/2008/2008 R2
Today I had a wearied problem...
Was installing Server 2008 R2 on Intel 61WW... all got installed well... but was not able to install LAN drivers..
No matter from where ever I download it from... didnt installed.. I tried on different Motherboard suspecting that the NIC might have got faulty... even tried with Intel 61CR motherboard... Nope it refused to install
Tried Windows 7 64 bit testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-77519126883676407222014-02-18T18:50:00.003+05:302019-03-05T23:49:31.799+05:30MySQL error mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
I recently upgraded MySQL 5.1 to 5.5.36 on CENTOS 6.5 64 bit
upgrade went well but MySQL won't start...
only one line logged under /var/log/mysqlerror.log
mysqld_safe mysqld from pid file /var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid ended
hummm.... so PID error
tried many things... Google search for PID issues...but...
boy.... no matter what I tried...... I was not able to make mysql service start... then..testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-15049650136999705982013-06-21T12:50:00.001+05:302013-06-21T12:50:43.420+05:30Upgrade MySQL 5.1 to 5.6 on Centos 6.4
Date: 21 June 2013
Yesterday I had to upgrade MySQL 5.1 on one of my Clients server, its pretty simple.... At least after going through many poets and links.... breaking few things and make them work again... Really after I did it... it was pretty simple.. Ok... so u don't trust me... You be the judge here...
here we go...
First we we need to add EPEL Repos
Then we need to run testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-65139225697970500532013-01-09T17:11:00.000+05:302019-03-05T23:48:05.069+05:30Dlink DCS 930L IP Camera and Recording with ISPY
Everybody now a days are looking forward to cheap surveillance & recording option... Dlink fits the bill
But along comes the pathetic DView recording and viewing software... being proprietary software... if you record with DView you will have to view in DView... and boy.... what a pain is it to view in it and play in it...
So my hunt for a solution which is easy & again... fits the testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com31tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-73719987987747344452012-05-16T20:08:00.004+05:302012-05-23T12:25:30.089+05:30T-Mobile WRTU54G-TM @HOME network Outage
HI,
From
past few days we were having issues with our T-Mobile WRTU54G-TM
routers suddenly they stopped working, SIM was not getting registered,
Opened a ticket with T-Mobile support but they didnt bother to resolve
it, I found that this was occuring accross the world and many many
users were facing issues.
T-Mobile reply was that we are having Outage with @HOME network&testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-81804776811640222352012-01-02T18:26:00.001+05:302012-01-02T18:27:23.369+05:30Nokia N72 OFFLINE ModeToday my Sony cell battery died therefore for emergency usage I had top revert back to my OLD Nokia N72, So I inserted the SIM and switched on the phone only to get another annoyance from the Dumb software makers...
No matter what I do, change profile, change SIM, restart many times but always greeted with "Insert SIM" can not change from Offline mode to Normal mode....
So I came to Google testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-64678812873200270242011-08-09T20:39:00.000+05:302011-08-09T20:39:12.538+05:30Failed to switch Terminal Server to INSTALL mode while installing Peachtree via Remote desktop<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-38923832513137320292010-09-10T17:09:00.002+05:302010-09-14T15:39:50.285+05:30Windows 2008 Storage Server Defalut PasswordBoy.......
I installed windows 2008 storage server for testing... like all installations... there were no errors or issues.. hummm... uummmm till the time it rebooted after finishing the setup.
Bang came the screen where it was asking the password to logon...?????
I started to remember whether I had configured one during the install or not... typed in few of my default password but none worked...testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-65899755810846352292010-08-11T13:09:00.001+05:302010-08-11T13:09:49.944+05:30Event ID 4163 Source MSDTCToday I received the following error in event viewer in one of my developers machine
Event ID 4163 Source MSDTC
MS DTC log file not found. After ensuring that all Resource Managers coordinated by MS DTC have no indoubt transactions, please run msdtc -resetlog to create the log file.
As usual there was no proper solution...
so after doing some searching, following steps resolved our testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-58981942549009280652009-10-01T15:33:00.000+05:302009-10-01T15:53:42.177+05:30Can Not Activate Windows "Error Code 0x8007232B"I was trying to Activate Windows 2008 R2 the Auto update feature was reporting errorCan Not Activate Windows Error Code 0x8007232BDNS errortried searching net but couldn't get any solution the Serial number was MSDN Subscription one, then I found a very easy solutionClick >> Start >> Control Panel >> System >> Click Change Product Link and past the same serial again click activateVoila!! aftertestbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-7480330516209603092009-03-18T18:29:00.000+05:302009-03-18T18:48:17.475+05:30NO Send Button in Outlook and no mails showing in InboxToday I faced rather strange issue One of the user reported that there is no Send button on any new mail he composes.Outlook 2007 and Exchange 2003 account.I checked everything nothing seemed to be wrong. i tried resetting the toolbars ( View >> Toolbars >> customize) etc. etc. but nothing helped.there were no events registered in the event viewer.then i search for the solution on net got all testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-88669086595309654722009-03-02T16:56:00.000+05:302009-03-02T17:01:13.900+05:30Dotnet 3.5 SP1 Full Package (Redistributable)Today after Googling lot of pages finally I got the Link for dotnet 3.5 SP1 Full package download linkhttp://download.microsoft.com/download/2/0/e/20e90413-712f-438c-988e-fdaa79a8ac3d/dotnetfx35.exe It is a mammoth size download 231 MB.testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-62435778394429711782009-02-16T16:45:00.000+05:302009-02-16T17:20:30.135+05:30EVENT ID 1309 Source ASP.NET 2.0.50727.0Today i shifted one dotnet 2.0 site from One server to anotherbut when i tried to browse it generated following Event ID in Event viewerIE gave following errorUnhandled Exception: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'missing, Version=2.0.50727.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.File name: 'testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3808899760075659948.post-68895075529294760972009-01-27T19:17:00.000+05:302009-01-27T19:53:17.777+05:30Net User Command for Unlocking the Disabled AD Domain accountsit has been 6 day since our network was hit by W32.Downadup.Bthis is a very NASTY virus it disables all the accounts in Active directory (AD)It was becoming pain in the neck enablink all 70 accounts one by one from console. the accounts gets disabled even before I reached the halfway mark. it was frustrating. then i remembered that there is a command to handel AD related tasks, and with the testbloghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18425607925645709276noreply@blogger.com0