recover an office 365 mailbox

recover an office 365 mailbox

this user accountant's mailbox got deleted online after a SBS2003 server migration

After two weeks of their MS office 365 online, Andy wants to see the deleted mailbox.

reover a deleted mailbox is easy on Office 365 as long as it has not been purged. so be quick.

to do that, login to portal.microsoftonline.com as admin
click on admin
exhange - manage
click on deleted mailboxes icon
select the mailbox you want to recover, click on recover
a form will pop out , fill out the form,
notice: you dont have to use the same username as the previous one
you dont have to pre-create a user on office 365

just fill out the form, give it a username/password, new email address, then you should have access to the deleted mailbox via portal.microsoftonline.com

I am quite lucky on this, as I just migrated their SBS 2003 server onto O365. I deleted this mailbox at the request of the customer both online and locally on the doomed sbs 2003 server. then the customer wanted to access this deleted mailbox. lucily the local box is already migrated online. it is much easier to re-attach the mailbox online

after a frastrating Friday, the one before the last one, I sorta figured out why I got cut-off by the PDC I was building

after a frastrating Friday, the one before the last one, I sorta figured out why I got cut-off by the PDC I was building

when I configure NAP - RAS , I clicked all the way to finish, by examing carefully while building server for another customer, Windows 2008 R2 with SP1 standard , in one of the wizard pages, there is a security settings pre-ticked which reads , only allow VPN packets on this interface, there is only 1 interface I am using, it is better to un-tick that.

it is interesting to note, if I tick the security settings , it will cut off ip connection after about 1 minute.

the filter rules may still be in effective even after I remove the NAP-RAS roles / features.

what a mine-trap microsoft has got for me....

paying the high emotional / physical prices for using microsoft

configure mobile devices for office 365

configure mobile devices for office 365

for the iphones, the mail server is

m.outlook.com

then the i-device will auto-detect which CAS server it will be using

for sumsung galaxy android phones the mail server is m.outlook.com

for the username it can be micheal@myboomer.com, if this doesnn't work try myboomer.com\michael@myboomer.com

patiecence is virtual ....

it may take a while before the phone cofigure itself....

change Sara's inbox rules, so her email wont be forwarded to another user. Office 365

change Sara's inbox rules, so her email wont be forwarded to another user. Office 365

after office 365 migration, inbox rules are migrated as well.

But the user wanted to stop that...

login to portal.microsoftonline.com as Sara (not admin)

organize email - inbox rules ... tick off the forwarding rule

of course you can also do that in outlook

btw outlook 2003 wont work with office 365

Installing an SMTP Relay on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Office 365

Installing an SMTP Relay on Windows Server 2008 R2 for Office 365

http://www.prescriptiveit.com/installing-smtp-relay-windows-server-2008-r2-office-365/

comment:

in IIS 6 smtp manager

in remote domain, you will need manually type in
*.com
*.com.au
*.co.nz

also check the relay settings

fig ... what is it?

fig ... what is it?

n. 无花果；无花果树；少许，一些；无价值的东西；服装 vt. 打扮；使马跑快 

what a day, finish someone's office 365 ....

what a day, finish someone's office 365 ....

this customer got migrated to MS Office 365 for a couple of week now.

after talking to the managers, I clicked the MS online ECP  - finish migration - ignore errors ....

hark .... hark ... hark....

then we got phone calls from the customer that their email disappeared ,  oh dear //// what a bad click make all this happen,

then TMR called his contact at Microsoft , ah... the contact at MS said their system is down.

well, it is not all that bad for a day .... dont blame myself too quick

what a day : two thing happened today ,,,, what in a day's work drama stressful drama

" Naming information cannot be located for the following reason: The server is not operational
If you are typing to connect to a domain controller running windows 2000, verify that windows 2000 SP3
or later is installed on the DC, or use the windows 2000 administration tools. For more information about
connecting to DCs running windows 2000, see help and support "
I just setup a brand new windows 2008 R2 on a brand new Intel board based server.  It went well for a few day, I add AD DS and dcpromo, this is supposed to be a customer's new server .

3 hours before delivery, I got above error. there are two Nics on the mainboard. 

NIC1 is active and configured .

It was all good until I configured NAP after install AD. I got some VNC disconnects, I thought just some routing change after NAP-RAS,

until this morning , I found how serious this problem is ... I cannot do dsa.msc and dssite.msc ...

shiiiiitt... it cannot find the global catalogure

then configured the 2nd NIC, get the whole thing working on the second NIC.

shark.... I stiill can't the thing working at the first NIC, called the vendor, upgrade the NIC driver. still no luck.... the first NIC will work for 1 minutes , then ping will fail with general failure. dcdiag will show cannot ping the ip addresses listed in DNS.

I removed the NAP, still the same problem

the TMR is not impressed, he wanted to bring it back to the hardware vendor to double check, or get them to pre-load

the BDM is not impressed either, he wanted a report on this.

in despair , I set both NIC to dhcp client, initially , the first NIC is not behave properly. then after 1 or 2 reboot, saddenly everthing is alright.

sigh,,,,,  then I set static ip on the first NIC, it just wont fail this time

oh, dear .... the TMR will take this back to the h/w vendor

there is no in-place upgrade of exchange 2007 to exchange 2010

there is no in-place upgrade of exchange 2007 to exchange 2010

what's the default password for Toshiba e-studio MFC

what's the default password for Toshiba e-studio MFC

username / password

admin / 123456

nice and easy

first impression with office 365 - the migration

first impression with office 365 - the migration

eventually I am involved with the sbs 2003 migration  process. it is a mess and quite time consuming.

it is all about getting auto-discovery right. the commercial cert is needed for mailbox migration.

the problem I had is the outlook 2007 on w-xp keeps asking for passwords.  and initial outlook auto-discovery setup can be very hard.  the support guy removed apple mobileme.  and removed lots of attributes from a certain sbs 2003 mailbox.

need change dns settings pointing autodiscovery.mydoomer.com to audtodiscover.outlook.com

mailbox migration can be tricky, you can manually start a new migration

the tech support for this region is from Shanghai, China

Machine Account Password Process

Machine Account Password Process

http://blogs.technet.com/b/askds/archive/2009/02/15/test2.aspx

Connection Manager Administration Kit

Connection Manager Administration Kit

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753977(v=ws.10).aspx

WPA2 - enterprise , username password involved to connect

http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1576225

quote here

Enterprise (EAP/RADIUS) Mode: This mode provides the security needed for wireless networks in business environments. Though more complicated to set up, it offers individualized and centralized control over access to your Wi-Fi network. Users are assigned login credentials they must present when connecting to the network, which can be modified or revoked by administrators at anytime.

Users never deal with the actual encryption keys. They are securely created and assigned per user session in the background after a user presents their login credentials.

Dect 6 , 802.11 b/g frequencies

Dect 6 , 802.11 b/g frequencies

DECT 6 - 1.9GHZ

802.11 b/g 2.4GHZ

Design Your Intranet for Corporate Connectivity Detection , IPV6 , directaccess

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee382273(v=ws.10).aspx


design considerations for DirectAccess in Windows Server 2008 R2. For the design considerations of DirectAccess in Microsoft

Password Reset Using Active Directory Users & Computers Fails with Error "The System cannot find the path specified"

Password Reset Using Active Directory Users & Computers Fails with Error "The System cannot find the path specified"

sbs 2003, a badly corrupted server

I tried a method on the net, but wont work, that post is about using adsiedit,msc to edit user's usrparamenter by clearing it. that didn't work for me.

I tried dsmod , no luck

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2001522/en-us

eventtually tried ldifde cmd
http://oreilly.com/pub/a/windows/2004/03/30/serverhacks_passwords.html?page=last&x-maxdepth=0

ldifde -i -f ChangePwd.ldif -t 636 -s dcname

the trick is to convert the password to some based-unicode, so there is a stringconverter to convert you fav password

dn: CN=Jane Doe,OU=Boston,DC=testdomain,DC=local
changetype: modify
replace: unicodePwd
unicodePwd::IgBwAGEAcwBzAHcAbwByAGQAIgA=
-

notice the - at the end of file is required

finally I changed someone's password at the end of the day

Branchcache - FIREWALl rules

Branchcache - FIREWALl rules

http://www.trainsignal.com/blog/server-2008-branchcache-configuration

excerpt

Distributed cache mode – Requires the configuration of the Peer-Discovery (Uses WSD) predefined rule which opens up UDP port 3702 both inbound and outbound.

Hosted cache mode – Requires the configuration of the Hosted Cache Client predefined rule which opens up TCP port 443 outbound.

IKEv2

IKEv2
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff687723(v=ws.10).aspx

IKEv2 allows multiprotocol traffic to be encrypted and then encapsulated in an IPsec header to be sent across a private IP network or a public IP network, such as the Internet. IKEv2 can be used for remote access VPN connections. IKEv2 supports automatic VPN reconnect that allows the security association to survive changes in the underlying connection. This enables a VPN connection to continue working with no user interaction when the network connection changes from wired to wireless, or if the IP address changes. When using the Internet as the public network for VPN, the IKEv2 server is an IKEv2-enabled VPN server with one interface on the Internet and a second interface on the intranet.

Both IKEv2 and IPsec must be supported by both the VPN client and the VPN server. IKEv2 is supported by remote access clients running Windows 7, and by VPN servers running Windows Server 2008 R2.

ummm..... w-xp not supported?

w7 WWAN autoconfig

This service manages mobile broadband (GSM & CDMA) data card/embedded module adapters and connections by auto-configuring the networks. It is strongly recommended that this service be kept running for best user experience of mobile broadband devices.

some exchange 2010 pwershell scripts

Set-OrganizationConfig -MailTipsExternalRecipientsTipsEnabled $true
Set-OrganizationConfig -MailTipsLargeAudienceThreshold 6

Restart-Service MSExchangeServiceHost
Restart-Service MSExchangeFDS
Set-Mailbox Peter -UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults $true $true
Restart-Service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants
Set-Mailbox John -MailTip "This user is restricted."
Get-Mailbox John | FL MailTip
Set-DistributionGroup "Contoso IT" -MailTip "The IT group will be at a conference next week."
New-MailboxDatabase -Name ArchiveMDB01 -Server EX01-
Mount-Database -Identity ArchiveMDB01
Get-MailboxStatistics -Identity Holly | FL TotalItemSize
Set-Mailbox -Identity Holly -UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults $False -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 7850075
Set-Mailbox -Identity Holly -UseDatabaseQuotaDefaults $False -ProhibitSendReceiveQuota 7850075
Restart-Service MSExchangeMailboxAssistants
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory | Set-OwaVirtualDirectory -ExternalUrl "https://mail.contoso.com/owa" -CalendarPublishingEnabled $true

outlook 2007 : Can't open any hyperlinks. (This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.)

outlook 2007 : Can't open any hyperlinks. (This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer.)

the anwser is here

fking googlers

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/office/forum/office_2007-outlook/cant-open-any-hyperlinks-this-operation-has-been/8815ad6c-0f44-477a-9ffa-beb98109b5a6

and I quote
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.htm /ve /d htmlfile /f
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.html /ve /d htmlfile /f
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.shtml /ve /d htmlfile /f
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xht /ve /d htmlfile /f
REG ADD HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.xhtml /ve /d htmlfile /f

After this just make your Internet Explorer the Default browser.