December 2008 - Posts

iPhone users can see entire Public folder hierarchy on Exchange 2003
22 December 08 10:37 AM | andym | 0 Comments   

Interesting one this, and sounds odd initially but upon some further reading is an issue that is known around the iPhone. http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6689175 It seems over IMAP the iPhone (perhaps through iTunes?) pulls down the Read More...

How to tell what policy is applying a setting on a machine...
12 December 08 10:13 AM | andym | 0 Comments   

So, you go to change a setting in a policy on a machine, but its greyed out. This is essentially because this is being pushed down from some other policy. Be it Domain, OU, site etc. You will also note the icon is different for that element of the policy. Read More...

AD Replication stops after changing the motherboard of a DC
10 December 08 10:32 AM | andym | 0 Comments   

Ususally an Exchange man but currently working to expand cross platform knowledge I came accross this.... When the motheboard of a DC is replaced (in a simple power down, swap, power up scenarie ie no backups/restores of AD) we can hit an issue where Read More...

Powerpath 5.2 and MPIO causing NPP leak
04 December 08 11:39 AM | andym | 0 Comments   

Ive seen a couple of cases now where Non paged pool memory is leaking and causing HTTP resourses to fail, machines to become unresponsive - the usual high NPP fun! When looking at a poolmon of tags over time we see that the MPIO tag is leaking, this is Read More...