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In Windows 7 it’s possible to create an Access Point without any additional hardware.

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I will explain the use of apctray in the apcupsd windows package. As this wasn’t very clear for me on the first time I saw it.

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In combination with my previous post (APC UPS Management on XenServer), I also installed apcupsd on my Windows Server.
This is a less important server, so by shutting it down automaticly after 5 minutes, I will save power for the important XenServer.

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Couple of days ago there where a couple pc’s that wouldn’t start anymore.
They would boot and then stop just before the logon screen (Ctrl+Alt+Del Login).
Booting to Safe Mode resulted in the same stop.

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Here is a quick explanation of how to create a bootable Windows Vista or Windows 7 USB Flash Drive.

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After moving the Favorites folder to a second hard drive (together with the other profile folders), I got an “Unspecified Error” while trying to add a favorite.

I already suspected some permission problems but couldn’t solve it immediately, instructions after the break.

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When I first tried to install Forefront TMG on a test XenServer, there was no way to get any network traffic flowing.
By looking at the logs I could see that the rules where fine, but that every packet was dropped because a wrong TCP Checksum.

To solve this I had to disable the generation of TCP Checksums on each virtual network interface.

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When trying to install Windows Small Business Server 2008 on a XenServer System, i encountered several errors.

The first ones I don’t really remember, but they where fixed by installing the XS-Tools before starting the SBS configuration wizard.

• Install SBS 2008
• On first boot (when the Configuration Wizard shows up), press Ctrl+Shift+Esc
• Choose xs-tools.iso in the DVD Drive dropdown list
• Go back to the Task Manager, click on “File”, “New Task”.
• Browse to the cd and run the setup.
• After this reboot the server (once or twice).
• Continue with normal installation

Then there was another problem when trying to install on XenServer 5.5. At some point in the installation the server rebooted and then stated that you should retry the setup.
The only fix for this problem that I found was to choose  ”Other install media” as the Template, and not “Windows Server 2008 x64″

Here are the steps you need to take, and some things to keep in mind

• Open Exchange Management Shell (as Administrator)
• New-EdgeSubscription -file C:\EdgeSubscription.xml
• Answer “Y”
• Transfer EdgeSubscription.xml to the Exchange Server
• Open Exchange Management Console
• In the left tree choose “Organization Configuration” and then “Hub Transport”
• In the Actions pane click “New Edge Subscription”

Check if everything is working:

• In the Exchange Management Console, Organization Configuration, Hub Transport, Edge Subscriptions.
  Your Edge Server should be listed
• Open Exchange Management Shell and run Start-EdgeSynchronization

Problems:

• “New-EdgeSubscription : The task couldn’t add the certificate to the ADAM directory service store. Error: access is denied.”
  Open Exchange Management Console as Administrator
• “Start-EdgeSynchronization : unable to contact EdgeSync service”
  Go to Services, search for “Microsoft Exchange EdgeSync”, and click Properties
  Change Startup type to Automatic and Start the service.
• Firewall Issues:
  I’ve installed EdgeServer together with Forefront TMG. You have to allow port 50636 from Exchange to EdgeServer
• Also bare in mind that the EdgeSubscription.xml file is only valid for 24 hours or so

Hi,

I’m here with a new problem that I solved a while ago, but I do think lots of people will benefit from this.
Outlook Web Access 2007 has a new feature “Documents”. It can be used to access your documents through owa from anywhere.

The problem is, that even when you configure everything, it still doesn’t work. You can only access the local exchange server, but no other computer or server. Because you always get the following error:

Authentication Failure:
Outlook Web Access was unable to retrieve the requested SharePoint document or folder. This may have occured because of the way your Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint servers are configured. You can try going directly to the resource by copying the link you typed and pasting it into Internet Explorer. For more information, contact technical support for your organization.

The error states an error with a SharePoint document, but we do want to access a File Share.

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