SMS 2003 Remote Assistance Configuration

Microsoft Systems Management Server 2003 enables you to configure the Remote Assistance settings of Windows XP or Windows Server 2003 computers. This article describes the details of how this is done. Remote Assistance is a technology in Windows XP Professional and Windows Server 2003 that enables users to help each other over the network. With …

Exchange 2007: Unable to log on to Outlook Web Access “A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox. Please contact technical support for your organization.”

When you try to log on to Outlook Web Access in Exchange 2007 you can successfully enter you username and password, but when you select your language and time zone and press OK you receive this error: The complete text of the message reads: Request Url: https://<fqdn>:443/OWA/lang.owa User host address: 172.16.1.25 Exception Exception type: Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Storage.StoragePermanentException …

Exchange 2007: Exploring Global message size restrictions

Exchange 2003 In Exchange 2003 you set the global message size restrictions are set with Exchange System Manager under Global Settings, Message Delivery: These settings are written to the Message Delivery object in the configuration partition in Active Directory. The object has the distinguished name (DN): CN=Message Delivery,CN=Global Settings,CN=<org name>,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=<domain>,DC=<domain> The attributes written are …

Nice tricks with the context menu in Windows Vista

For a long time, we have been enjoying a Windows XP Power Tool called “Command prompt here” on our directories’ and drives’ context menus. I recently discovered that Windows Vista has this functionality build in. If you right-click your directory or drive while you press the SHIFT key, you get a few more choices. One …

Zone Information for downloaded files and NTFS Alternate Data streams

Since Windows XP Service Pack 2 was launched, every time you try to run or open a file that has been downloaded from the Internet, or more correctly, from the Internet Zone in Internet Explorer. You are prompted with the following warning message:   What this message does, basically, is to warn you that you …