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Propagate mailbox folder permissions

I recently had the requirement where somebody required another person to access a specific folder in their mailbox. We didn’t want to grant full mailbox access. This normally isn’t a problem as we’d just set the permissions on the individual … Continue reading

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Determine which DFS target a client is connected to

If you want to figure out which servers your DFS client is connected to, just run the following command from the command prompt: dfsutil /pktinfo To quote the inbuilt usage information: Dfsutil /PktInfo is a special problem diagnosis command that … Continue reading

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Gotcha: HP Teaming and Hyper-V

A point to be aware of when setting up a new Hyper-V host on a HP server that’s going to have the Network Configuration Utility (NCU) installed; You must install the Hyper-V role before installing the NCU. This is as … Continue reading

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Delete emails from Journal mailbox before they’re journaled

Setting up a new journal mailbox that has Enterprise Vault Journal Archiving turned on, and I don’t want emails from our monitoring system to go into the journal archive. When I tried logging onto the ECP as that user I’d … Continue reading

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Enterprise Vault – Error: 0×80070780 “The file cannot be accessed by the system”

I experienced this error when trying to delete or overwrite placeholders left by Symantec Enterprise Vault. The scenario was that we’d migrated our shared data drive from one VM to another by means of copying/attaching the VHD to a new … Continue reading

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