Exchange 2010 Won’t Sync Mobile Device Mailbox For One User

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Today I stumbled across some weird stuff where one individual account wasn’t able to synchronize on their iPhone/Droid. They would sign in and get an error saying the “Connection to the server was unavailable.”

To fix this, simply follow the steps below! 🙂
Open Active Directory Users and Computers -> View > Advanced Features.
Find the user with the problems connecting, Right-Click -> Properties.
Click the Security tab -> Advanced and make sure that the check box for “Include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent” is checked.

PowerShell Script To Create Folders From CSV

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This script will read in a csv named users.csv and create a bunch of directories from it. A log file will be written named logfile.log

###########################################################
# MODIFIED: Jack Stromberg
# DATE : 7/19/2012
# COMMENTS: $_.FirstName and $_.LastName are the column names in the csv file
###########################################################
# Get current directory and set import file in variable
$path = Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$newpath = $path + "\users.csv"
# Define variables
$log = $path + "\logfile.log"
$date = Get-Date
# FUNCTIONS
Function createDirs
{
"Created following directories (on " + $date + ") " | Out-File $log -append
"--------------------------------------------" | Out-File $log -append
Import-CSV $newpath | ForEach-Object {
$dir = $path + "\" + $_.FirstName + "." + $_.LastName + "\"
$dir = $dir.ToLower()
New-Item $dir -type directory
}
}
# RUN SCRIPT
createDirs
#Finished

How to power off a hanging VM in ESXi

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So to do this in ESXi, see this tutorial: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1014165

I found out that the commands from ESX are completely different, so if you are receiving the “vmware-cmd” not recognized, you are probably running ESXi and need to use the commands from the KB article above.

VMWare Lockdown Mode

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Here is how to enable it:

To enable Lockdown mode via console:
Log in directly to the ESXi host.
Open DCUI on the host.
Press F2 for Initial Setup.
Toggle the Configure Lockdown Mode setting.

To enable Lockdown mode via vSphere:
Log in to vSphere
Click on the Home->Inventory->Hosts and Clusters
Click on the host you want to manage
Click on the Configuration manager
Click on “Security Profile” on the left side
Click the Edit… link next to Lockdown Mode
Enable it!

Preparing Server 2008 R2 for vCenter Server 5

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If you are installing VMware vCenter5 and you notice that their are no connectors for connecting to a remote msSQL database, here is how to add a new ODBC connector to get things up and running.

  1. 1. Install .NET framework tools 3.5 (Can be done by adding a Feature and in the Server Manager of Server 2008 R2)
  2. Download and install the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client for Server 2008
    1. http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=123718&clcid=0x409
  3. Create a new ODBC connection
    1. To do this, try installing the ODBC connection through the control panel by going to: Control Panel ->Administrative Tools -> Data Sources (ODBC)
      1. NOTE: If you notice later on that vServer doesn’t find an ODBC source, try opening the configuration manager with an elevated command prompt and type in
        1. c:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe
  4. Click on the System DSN tab
  5. Click Add
  6. Click on SQL Server Native Client 10.0
  7. Click Finish
  8. Type in the name, description, and server to connect to.
  9. Click Next
  10. Fill out how you want to authenticate
  11. Click Next
  12. Change the default database to whateveryourdatabaseiscalled
  13. Click Next
  14. Click Next
  15. Finish
  16. Test Data Source…

–You should see “TESTS COMPLETED SUCCESSFULLY!”