Unable to access OWA

I had a user call a while back and say they were unable to login to OWA. They could get to the login screen, and would type their username and password, but when they clicked login they would get the following error:

“A problem occurred while trying to use your mailbox. Please contact technical support for your organization.”

If they clicked the Show Details button, this is what was displayed:…

iOS 4 upgrade – Slow Exchange sync

We haven’t run into this problem yet, but I don’t know how many of our users have iPhones and sync with Exchange. This will just be nice to have listed.

Symptoms

Immediately after updating to iOS 4, some users may notice that Exchange ActiveSync Mail, Contacts, or Calendars do not sync, or sync very slowly. In addition, some Exchange Server administrators may notice their servers running slowly.…

Sophos PureMessage for Exchange 3.1.0 Install

Yesterday and today I worked on getting a new server setup running Sophos PureMessage 3.1.0. We have used PureMessage for several years and have had pretty good luck with it when it comes to blocking spam. The interface hasn’t changed much since the last upgrade.

We run PureMessage on a seperate box and don’t run it on our Exchnage server. This way it helps keep the spam load isolated and doesn’t hurt performance on our Exchange server.…

Web Platform Installer

I installed a Windows Server 2008 R2 box awhile back to test IIS 7.0. I was wanting something that I could load PHP on and work with WordPress. I was hoping to use the box as a small Intranet site. I’ve tried installing PHP on a Windows box with IIS in the past and there were several things to do. While I was searching for the documents online again, I came across the Web Platform Installer from Microsoft. I thought I would give it a shot. It’s great for a helping get a IIS server up and running with PHP and even mySQL. It’s just a matter of selecting a few options in the GUI and following the prompts. I suggest you give it a try if you need IIS running with PHP.…

Upgrade Active/Failover ASA Pair

Cisco LogoAt work we have two ASA 5520’s that are configured as an active/failover pair. Here are the steps that we use to upgrade them.

  1. Download the ASA software image and the ASDM image from Cisco
  2. TFTP both files to both of the ASA’s
  3. Console directly to the Primary ASA and type the following commands:
        1. Config t
        2. Boot system disk0:/NewASAimage.bin
        3. Asdm image disk0:/NewASDMimage.bin

New Site!

Welcome to Tech-Corner.org!

I’m Eric and I would like to thank you for stopping by my technology site. At the moment I’m trying to get things up and running. I’m putting this site up so that I can post information that I use at work or have come across that might be useful in the future. I hope that the information that I post will be helpful to you as well.…