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Give me 2 minutes and I’ll save you hours of Exchange troubleshooting !

Posted on January 25th, 2008 in Software, Troubleshooting | No Comments »

Disclaimer: Guys if you happen to be suffering from “Event ID: 494” symptoms of you Microsoft Exchange 2003 server do not attempt anything before reading this article, I might save you a lot of time.

Level: I am assuming in the following that you already have good understanding of Microsoft Exchange 2003 operation and terminology, so this is for no newbies.

Symptoms: Typically a storage group will fail to mount and an error will be logged in the Application Log with an event id of 494. The error is the following
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EULAlyzer

Posted on December 14th, 2007 in Software | No Comments »

Do you read the end user license agreement (EULA) every time you sign up for a service or you sign up for an account in some website? I personally rarely do it. Even though it could be dangerous sometimes not to read the license agreement, but it is really boring to read hundreds of lines… to me at least!

Problem here is that it is dangerous sometimes not to read the EULA especially when you’re dealing with an untrusted party. You never to what are you agreeing, you might be giving them the permission to display pop-up ads or even sharing personal information. So how to avoid that?

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