Installing the rollup update 5 on a machine running Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1 might cause your Outlook Web Access, OWA, to fail with error Outlook Web Access did not initialize
I have already experienced this error at 2 of my customers on fresh installations and I am surprised I didn’t find this error documented at Microsoft (Maybe I didn’t look hard enough)
The problem is that, for some weird reason, the installation of the rollup update 5 is removing the Exchange server from the Exchange Domain Servers group !
So if you are facing this issue simply find that group, add your exchange server account to it and restart your server. That should do it!
If you are familiar with Microsoft Exchange 2007 you already know about the AddReplicaToPFRecursive.ps1 script that can be found in the “X:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\Scripts”, however this script has a bug it doesn’t look to support public folders which names contains spaces.
It is quite common to enclose parameters that contains spaces with “quotations” but that doesn’t work here.
If you simply try to use the following it will fail.
AddReplicatoPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder “\PublicFolder with space” -ServerToAdd “servername”
The solution turned out to be to use single quotes inside the double quotes so it should be something like
AddReplicatoPFRecursive.ps1 -TopPublicFolder “’\PublicFolder with space’” -ServerToAdd “servername”
That’s really weird and not standard but it works !
Windows Vista and Windows 7 will loose they ability to hibernate after you run a disk clean up, this is due to the fact that you have selected “Hibernation File Cleaner” while performing the disk cleanup
To restore Hibernate functionality you have to run the following command
Powercfg /hibernate on
Alternatively you could decide to remove the “Hibernation File Cleanup” option from Disk cleanup, to do so simply use your favorite registry editing tool to delete the following key
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\VolumeCaches\Hibernation File
When installing Exchange 2007 SP1 in Cluster Continuous Replication (CCR) configuration. The setup of the passive node fails with the following error:
“This is not a passive node. A clustered mailbox server represented by the cluster resource group [clustername] was found on this node.”
I’ve found out that the reason for the problem is that upon finishing the Exchange Cluster installation on the active node the setup will ask you for a restart. Restarting the machine will cause the Windows cluster to failover to the passive node to be and thus causing the Exchange installation to fail on that node.
To solve this problem use the cluster manager to move back the cluster resources to the active node or simply restart the passive node to be and re-run the Exchange 2007 SP1 installation on failing node.
This solution was tested on Microsoft Windows 2008 and Microsoft Exchange 2007 SP1
I’ve recently told you that I have installed Windows 7 on my MacBook and giving it a serious try so here is a nice feature I found about 2 days ago.
If you shake an open window slowly all other windows will get minimized shake again to restore them all.
However this looks more like an application feature than a windows feature to me since it only works with the applications that ship with Windows 7. For example it doesn’t work with Windows Live Messenger nor with Firefox but does with Internet Explorer 8 or the new version of Paint.
Although this feature is not the most useful I sure think it is cool, what do you think?
After updating my other blog adidap to wordpress 2.7 I have noticed that the Lightbox 2 plugin stopped working on my older posts but was working well on any new post I created.
After a few hours of research I found the answer in the comments of the plugin it self, so the credits of this finding goes to Mymoto I am just documenting it, and applies of version 2.02 of the plugin.
- Open the Lightbox.php file in the plugin editor
- Find function lightbox_wp_head() {
- Now find if ($lightboxoffmeta == “false”) { (should be on line 48)
- Comment out this line
- Add directly beneath it if ($lightboxoffmeta == “false” || $lightboxoffmeta == ”) {
- Save lightbox.php
You’re function should now look like
function lightbox_wp_head() {
global $lightboxpluginpath, $post;
$lightboxcolor1 = get_option("lightbox_color1");
$lightboxlb_opacity = get_option("lightbox_lb_opacity");
$lightboxlb_resize = get_option("lightbox_lb_resize");
$lightboxoff = false;
$lightboxoffmeta = get_post_meta($post->ID,'lightboxoff',false);
// if ($lightboxoffmeta == "false") {
if ($lightboxoffmeta == "false" || $lightboxoffmeta == '') {
Today I’ve installed Windows 7 on my MacBook to give it a spin and, overall, it was a nice experience I understand now why they call it “Vista done right”!
What immediately bothered me was the fact that I couldn’t get Windows Live Messenger 9 to minimize to the system tray! No matter what I did it was stuck to the taskbar whereas I never had that problem on Windows Vista and it was quite annoying.
Luckily it didn’t take me long to figure out that running Windows Live Messenger in Windows Vista compatibility mode would solve the problem to do so
- Navigate to %ProgramFiles%\Windows Live\Messenger\ and find msnmgsr.exe
- Right Click properties on that file and go to the “Compatibility” tab
- Select “Windows Vista” from the drop down menu
- Click ok
- Exit and run Windows Live Messenger again
That’s it!
Work does stand in the way of blogging sometimes, but believe it or not… we’re back! We don’t promise to be updating the blog on a daily basis, but we’ll do our best to update it several times a week.
Today we will be sharing with you how to add subtitles to movies you download from the internet. Most of the movies we download don’t usually have any subtitles, and the reason is that you can simply choose any subtitles language you want and add it to your movie in few easy steps. Here’s how to do it.
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So Windows downloaded an installed a new set of updates on your computer! Everything worked perfectly and right after everything is done, Windows prompted your to restart the computer and you chose to restart later probably because you have tons of opened windows and you prefer to restart later.
Few minutes later you received that prompt again, and you kept on receiving it every few minutes… It’s annoying we know! But guess what, we’ll provide you with a way to disable it and continue working normally on your computer.
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Due to the large amount of e-mails we receive everyday on our Gmail, sometimes we feel like drowning in e-mails!
We have already made use of the filtering functionality in Gmail, so most of the emails we receive usually go under some certain label, according to the rules we have set, while the rest simply goes to the inbox. However, keeping track of what we have not read yet became quite irritating lately due to the fact that Gmail doesn’t sort emails according to the reading status, so we end up hunting the unread emails…
BUT, we have finally found a simple trick that will display to you all your unread emails from your inbox or any other label.
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