Friday, July 29, 2011

Exchange 2003 - ActiveSync Issue

Symptoms - activesync only displays emails when outlook or outlook webaccess is open

http://forums.precentral.net/wm-synchronization/109210-exchange-active-sync-hosed-2.html

To ensure Outlook Mobile works with Active Synch without a front end Server do the following:
1. Start Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Locate the Exchange virtual directory. The default location is as follows:
Web Sites\Default Web Site\Exchange
3. Right-click the Exchange virtual directory, click All Tasks, and then click Save Configuration to a File.
4. In the File name box, type a name. For example, type ExchangeVDir. Click OK.
5. Right-click the root of this Web site. Typically, this is Default Web Site. Click New, and then click Virtual Directory (from file).
6. In the Import Configuration dialog box, click Browse, locate the file that you created in step 4, click Open, and then click Read File.
7. Under Select a configuration to import , click Exchange, and then click OK.

A dialog box will appear that states that the "virtual directory already exists."
8. In the Alias box, type a name for the new virtual directory that you want Exchange ActiveSync and Outlook Mobile Access to use. For example, type exchange-oma. Click OK.
9. Right-click the new virtual directory. In this example, click exchange-oma. Click Properties.
10. Click the Directory Security tab.
11. Under Authentication and access control, click Edit.
12. Make sure that only the following authentication methods are enabled, and then click OK:
• Integrated Windows authentication
• Basic authentication

13. Under IP address and domain name restrictions, click Edit.
14. Click Denied access, click Add, click Single computer, type the IP address of the server that you are configuring, and then click OK. (If server has multiple IP Addresses, you must add all of them)
15. Under Secure communications, click Edit. Make sure that Require secure channel (SSL) is not enabled, and then click OK.
16. Click OK, and then close the IIS Manager.
17. Click Start, click Run, type regedit, and then click OK.
18. Locate the following registry subkey:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MasSync\Parameters
19. Right-click Parameters, click to New, and then click String Value.
20. Type ExchangeVDir, and then press ENTER. Right-click ExchangeVDir, and then click Modify.

NoteExchangeVDir is case-sensitive. If you do not type ExchangeVDir exactly as it appears in this article, ActiveSync does not find the key when it locates the exchange-oma folder.
21. In the Value data box, type the name of the new virtual directory that you created in step 8. For example, type /exchange-oma. Click OK.
22. Quit Registry Editor.
23. Restart the IIS Admin service. To do this, follow these steps:
a. Click Start, click Run, type services.msc, and then click OK.
b. In the list of services, right-click IIS Admin service, and then click Restart.


If you use Symantec Mail Security for Exchange, change the following tweak:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\MSExchangeIS\VirusScan

ProActiveScanning=1
Reference for solution:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817379/
http://discussion.treocentral.com/ar.../t-109210.html
http://kb.palm.com/SRVS/CGI-BIN/WEBC...tKB,CASE=43165
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/e.../bb288524.aspx
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Tuesday, July 19, 2011

VMware Player vmnetcfg

VMware Player vmnetcfg

http://www.sohoadvisers.com/tutorials/32-vmware-player/64-vmware-player-vmnetcfg

Recently I was using VMware Player 3 on my laptop but I was not able to get an IP address with Bridged Networking selected. Being a user of VMware products for many years, I knew there was a quick fix.

I navigated to the VMware Player directory to run vmnetcfg but it was not there. Unfortunately, the new version of VMware Player doesn’t include vmnetcfg in the installer anymore. Lucy for all of us, it is included in the installer.

To extract vmnetcfg.exe from the installer do the following:


1. Run the installer with /e option. For example:
VMware-player-3.0.0-197124.exe /e .\extract
Contents will be extracted to “extract” folder.
2. Open “network.cab” and copy vmnetcfg.exe to your installation folder,
typically “C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Player\”.

Now you can run vmnetcfg to exclude network adapters from binding.

vmnetcfg.exe screen capture