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Blackberry Enterprise Server router must start as besadmin

When you run the setup as a different user then “besadmin” or the equivalent you created, the router service is not correctly set to run as “besadmin” and communication with the mobile devices fails.

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Blackberry Enterprise Server Express MAPI client error

When running Exchange 2010 (my case SP3) make sure you install the “MAPI CDO 1.2.1 package”.
If you install this while setup was checking prerequisites, you might get an error later on while on the MAPI settings screen. Check Now resolves the besadmin account fine and changes the name to the SMTP address. But when clicking Next, you get an error.

The setup application could not initialize the Microsoft Exchange Server MAPI Client. Make sure that MAPI is installed and configured correctly and the Microsoft Exchange Server and mailbox that you specified are correct.

1) Make sure the User account is not hidden from the GAL, open the mailbox in exchange console and check on general tab.

2) Press cancel and rerun setup, it resumes from where you left off, and now it proceeds.

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Blackberry Enterprise Express 5.0.4 setup error after splash screen

After extracting you launch setup.exe from the bundle directory, you view the splash screen and immediately after the setup crashes. See screenshot below.
bb-error1

Change your language settings for “date, time and number formats” to english (US).
Rerun setup.Exe

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SERVER SIDE SOLUTION: Outlook Web Access 2003 does not work in Internet Explorer 10

When you want to view your Exchange 2003 e-mail via Outlook Web Access on Internet Explorer 10 you don’t see your e-mails but a black text instead:

exchweb/img/tf_Messages.xsltable-layout:fixed;width:100%;MessagesBKBMBfalseNonepercentImportancei4http://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/x-priority-long1101width:13px;cursor:hand;text-align: center; Item Typestringhttp://schemas.microsoft.com/exchange/outlookmessageclass1101width:20px;cursor:hand;text-align: center; FlagStatusi4http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/x109000031101width:20px;cursor:hand;text-align: center; Attachmentbooleanurn:schemas:httpmail:hasattachment1101width:15px;cursor:hand;text-align: center; Fromstringhttp://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/sent_representing_name1001width:23%;cursor:hand;text-align: ;padding-right:3px;padding-left:3px; Subjectstringhttp://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/subject1001width:40%;cursor:hand;text-align: ;padding-right:3px;padding-left:3px; Receiveddateurn:schemas:httpmail:datereceived1001width:26%;cursor:hand;text-align: ;padding-right:3px;padding-left:3px; ddd M/d/yyyyh:mm ttSizei4http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/x0e0800031001width:11%;cursor:hand;text-align: right;padding-right:3px;padding-left:3px;padding-right:3px “http://schemas.microsoft.com/mapi/proptag/0x67aa000b” = false AND “DAV:isfolder” = falseurn:schemas:httpmail:datereceivedDESCdatebackground-color:buttonface

The solution is simple. Enable compatibility mode for the webpage (press alt to show the menu, look under tools).

If you want this done automatically for all your visitors you can also add a header on your IIS6 so that every viewer gets forced in Internet Explorer 8 compatibility mode. On your server open IIS manager, click the plus sign under default website and then select “Exchange” and right click and choose properties. Go to the TAB HTTP-HEADERS and add a customer header X-UA-Compatible with value IE=EmulateIE8.
IIS6-http-header

Now the browser receives this header and automatically uses compatibility mode.

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Exchange 2010: moved mailbox to new database Blackberry Enterprise won’t sync

When you create a new Database in Exchange 2010 you also need to add special rights to this database for the Blackberry Enterprise service account (standard: BESAdmin) to this database.

Source: http://btsc.webapps.blackberry.com/btsc/viewdocument.do?externalId=KB02276&sliceId=2&cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&noCount=true&ViewedDocsListHelper=com.kanisa.apps.common.BaseViewedDocsListHelperImpl

Click Start > Programs > Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 > Exchange Management Shell
Execute the following command:
Get-MailboxDatabase | Add-ADPermission -User "BESAdmin" -AccessRights ExtendedRight -ExtendedRights Receive-As, ms-Exch-Store-Admin, ms-Exch-Store-Visible

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Exchange: Name Could Not be Matched to a Name in the Address List

English: “Name Could Not be Matched to a Name in the Address List”
Dutch: “Naam niet gevonden in de adreslijst”

Outlook showed this error while setting up the mailbox profile.
The user could login in to OWA without issues. In my case it had nothing to do with the Global Address List or Offline Address book.
Seems some attributes on the user in Active Directory were missing. In Exchange console i disabled the mailbox and thus removing exchange attributes from the user. The mailbox them became disconnected, and next I connected the mailbox again to the same user.

After that everything worked! If you have multiple AD sites remember that the Domain Controllers need time to sync.

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6to4 isatp tunnel problem windows VISTA & 7

The PC or laptop may appear to be very slow and CPU is at 100% most of the time. When you check in taskmanager (after selecting show processes from all users) 1 or more svchost.exe processes are hogging CPU. When you right click the svchost.exe and choose “go to service” you find oud that it is 1 of the following services:
– wudfsvc
– DcomLaunch
– PlugPLay

Open up a Command prompt (type cmd in the start – search field) and type in ipconfig to see if there a lot of tunnel adapters present. Normally you see only 1 or maximum 4 and then a local area network and perhaps a wireless adapter. If you have dozens of tunnel adapters, then this bug is effecting you.

Too many tunnel adapters in IPCONFIG
Too many tunnel adapters in IPCONFIG

To solve this execute the following:
Open up a Command prompt (CMD) but right click to run as administrator.
Type (without the quotes): netsh int isa set state disabled
Leave the command prompt open.
Now open up device manager, go to view and select “show hidden devices”.
In the device list, go to network adapters and disable the “Toredo tunneling interface” and the “6to4 adapter”.
To remove the large amount of tunnel adapters you can use this batch file, thanks to: Ryan Victory.
Remove tunnel adapters Batch file download link
You extract the content and run as administrator (right click) the 6to4remover.bat file from the folder that corresponds to you OS architecture (32 or 64 bit).
If you get a popup asking to accept license terms for devcon.exe, accept it. Maybe you then have to run as administrator it again to start. When it’s started it will remove all excess adapters.

Removing tunnels
Removing tunnels

After these actions are complete reboot your system. It should be back to normal.

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XFIRE: run game without UAC elevation

Xfire would launch the Call of Duty 2 with UAC elevation and then the game would error with “INVALID CD KEY”.
This is because Xfire would launch the game with UAC elevation. Some games need UAC elevation, but Call of Duty 2 not.
You can change this setting per game by opening:
C:\ProgramData\Xfire\xfire_games.ini

In this list search the specific game and change RunElevated=1 to RunElevated=0.

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Delete or show hidden no longer active or present network adapters Device Manager

Open a command prompt. Start: RUN -> CMD (OK)
At the prompt type:
set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1
At the prompt type:
start devmgmt.msc
In the menu view, click on “Show hidden devices”.
Now go to network adapters and uninstall the ones that you were looking to uninstall, it will be greyed out.

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VPN tunnel between Netscreen and Cisco

Recently I had some troubles setting up a VPN between a Netscreen and a Cisco device from the remote party.

We had agreed upon a Preshared Key and 3DES/SHA1 encryption/hash algorithms using main mode and DH group 2. The Cisco side had added group 2 to their isamkp setting but they could not add the same group command to the transform command so my Phase2 had NOPFS set while my Phase1 was DH group 2.

The tunnel still did not come up, debugging was not useful as it was the Netscreen that initiated the tunnel every time and the log just showed an answer from the Cisco with “no proposal chosen”. After looking into their config and a hint on the internet, I configured the proxyID on the tunnel with local address = my WAN IP and remote address = their WAN IP. And that did the trick, tunnel was up.