I got the error message says “The Folder is Full” while trying to move, delete, or even save a draft.

Out of the sudden I cannot do any actions on any object inside Outlook. Initially, I thought it’s related to the Outlook itself and start to look here and there, google it, but all resolutions suggested were useless. The size of the PST file itself wasn’t an issue, it was less than 800MB, so the message must have another meaning (or at least that what I thought).

Later as a test, I created additional PST file and start an export process to the new one, noticing the process was doing fine, I stopped the exporting and get back to the file trying to do any action, again nothing.

Even worse, the Outlook shows it’s downloading messages but nothing appears in the inbox!! Okay, now this is really annoying, but at least I know it’s a PST issue.

Got a command line prompt (CMD) and go to C:Program FilesMicrosoft OfficeOffice12 and run the scanpst.exe file, select the file I’m using and after the scanning is finished, I asked it to keep a backup copy and repair the original file.

Yep, now I’m working happily again 🙂

When publishing Exchange 2007 with multiple web sites (under IIS) you may end up with the external published URL doesn’t authenticate well. In my case I had ISA 2006 publishing the Exchange 2007 SP1, and suddenly the OWA stopped working and I got the URL https://mail.domain.com/owa/auth/owaauth.dll and the error message was (as usual) totaly unusable saying the page cannot be displayed, blah, blah, blah.

However, looking into IIS logs, and checking here and there, do some search on the internet finally figured out it might be an issue with the IIS itself with that dll file.

Just went to the IIS manager, right-click on the “Default Web Site” and select properties.

Under the “ISAPI Filters” I checked the Exchange OWA Cookie….” filter, and clicked Edit

Copy and paste both values into a text file and make sure I have it saved on the disk.

Removed the filter, restarted the IIS, then add it back using the same values and restart the IIS again.

IT WORKS 🙂

When getting problems having an IP address assigned to one Windows machine but not another one, you start to check the one that is not getting it. Thinking it’s machine specific. However, when you find that particular version of Windows doesn’t get an IP address, you start to think of the DHCP server. I was running into the following situation:
Client with CISCO router 1800 series, another router 3500 series, switch 3500 series, and a call manager with IP telephone. The 1800 router was running the DHCP for computers, on separate VLAN. For some reason all windows VISTA computers doesn’t acquire an IP address from that router.
After running a network sniffing tool, I found the request/response going just fine, so the machine should have an IP. In fact, the DHCP server already assigned that IP in the table for the MAC address and set a lease time for it. Okay, what’s wrong then? Checking the event log of VISTA found the following information:

Log Name:      System
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Dhcp-Client
Date:          9/20/2008 5:04:40 PM
Event ID:      1001
Task Category: None
Level:         Error
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      MachineName
Description:
Your computer was not assigned an address from the network (by the DHCP Server) for the Network Card with network address xxxxxxxxxxxx.  The following error occurred:
The parameter is incorrect.. Your computer will continue to try and obtain an address on its own from the network address (DHCP) server.
Event Xml:
<Event xmlns=”http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event“>
  <System>
    <Provider Name=”Microsoft-Windows-Dhcp-Client” Guid=”{xxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx}” EventSourceName=”Dhcp” />
    <EventID Qualifiers=”0″>1001</EventID>
    <Version>0</Version>
    <Level>2</Level>
    <Task>0</Task>
    <Opcode>0</Opcode>
    <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
    <TimeCreated SystemTime=”2008-09-20T14:04:40.000Z” />
    <EventRecordID>121276</EventRecordID>
    <Correlation />
    <Execution ProcessID=”0″ ThreadID=”0″ />
    <Channel>System</Channel>
    <Computer>MachineName</Computer>
    <Security />
  </System>
  <EventData>
    <Data>xxxxxxxxxxxx</Data>
    <Data>%%87</Data>
  </EventData>
</Event>

This wasn’t clear enough, so back to the sniffing tool, I found one of the options passed along with the IP address (003 router) was passing two values, 192.168.xx.x and 255.255.255.0 and when checking the router DHCP configuration, found this:
default-router 192.168.xx.x 255.255.255.0
My guess that the CISCO guy who configured this missed the command syntax thinking he/she should add a subnet mask to it, which for some reason doesn’t affect any OS except the VISTA!!!
I tried my Linux version, and other XP systems in the office and all were running just fine with that ignoring the bad parameter!

I was in a situation where I need to allow users to access shares on “server1” after moving the data to new machine with referent name. My client’s administrator refused to use any scripts or even to do the job manually be passing to all clients and modify the shortcuts on their desktops.Therefore, I was looking to setup two machine names that can be accessed as (SAMBA) servers on the same box. And I was very sure it’s doable cause I’ve done it on the windows cluster.

Few search on the net and got the following registry values to be manually modified, and the machine (MUST) be restarted after that.

HKLMSystemCurrent Control SetServiceslanmanserverparameters

Value1 name: OptionalNames

Value1 type:  String (or multi line string if you wanna add more than one additional name)

Value1 data: the additional server name “serveroldname”

After restarting, you may face some name resolution issues, check this link (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281308) or simply add the following value at the same above key:

Value2 Name: DisableStrictNameChecking

Value2 type: Decimal

Value2 Data: 1

أول ما تلحظه هوالسهولة الشديدة في تركيبه، وبعد ذلك سرعته الرائعة في التشغيل وفتح علامات تبيوب جديدة (Tabs).
أما عن الدعم للغة العربية فلا بأس به، فيمكن قلب الواجهة إلى اللغة المفضلة بتعديل الخيار وإعادة تشغليه تماماً مثل جووجل إيرث (Google Earth)، هذه المدونة كتبتها من داخله لكني لم أستطع إقناعه بعد بأن يحرك مؤشر الكتابة في الاتجاه الصحيح عند الضغط على الأسهم في لوحة المفاتيح.
المتصفح هو (Google Chrome) ويمكن تحميله من www.google.com/chrome كما هي عادة جووجل بإضافة اسم البرنامج بعد اسم النطاق.
من المشاكل التي واجهتها حتى الآن، أن الكثير من الإضافات (Add Ons) مثل شريط تعديل النص وتحريره داخل ووردبريس على سبيل المثال لا تظهر، كما أن الكثير من أكواد جافا لا تعمل داخله. لكن بشكل عام، هو المتصفح الأسرع على الإطلاق الذي استخدمته إلى الآن، وجميل من مطوريه أن يضعو بعين الاعتبار عدم تكرار الإعدادات فهو يأخذ الإعدادات من متصفح مايكروسوفت (بالنسبة للبروكسي) ويتذكر آخر المواقع التي زرتها على الإنترنت إكسبلورر.
تجربة ممتعة، وخيار جيد لمن يريد البحث عن موضوع بسرعة كبيرة، وهو بالتأكيد خيار ممتاز لمن يعشق جووجل لأنهم (بكل تأكيد) سيربطونه بجميع منتجاتهم الأخرى قريباً.

تحديث: حركة جميلة جداً أن تتمكن من سحب علامة التبويب (TAB)  لتجعلها نافذة مستقلة بذاتها، أو إضافتها لنافذة أخرى.