Exchange 2013 powershell issues

newly installed exchange 2013 environment. Clean install. When running exchange-powershell gets error “connecting to remote server : access denied … fully qualified errorid : accessdenied, pssessionopenfailed.

Solution:

One of these…

• Time on DC was off by 7 minutes. Corrected this
• Applied the Cumalative Update 1 for Exchange 2013

Tried quite a few other fixes before this that didn’t work for me.

Among the most popular

• Run "aspnet_regiis -ir" from C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework(64)\v4.0.30319 to register ASP.NET 4.0. – didn’t work for Server 2012
• Added powershell 2.0 and dotnet 3.5 frameowork features
• Activated wsman module from powershell virtuel catalogue in iis
• ran proxy reset > netsh winhttp reset proxy
• ran set-user administrator –remotepowershellenabled

See links below.

References:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=38176 – cumulative update 1 for exchange 2013

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/09def496-1998-4b56-bae4-8d3675d18a30/exchange-2013-powershell-error

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/aa3c936f-bec1-4e24-b38f-81685df718c7/exchange-management-shell-fails-to-connect-to-exchange-server-2013 - .

http://dbanda.blogspot.se/2013/05/problem-with-exchange-2013-management.html

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2010/02/04/3409289.aspx

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351136.aspx - Troubleshooting the Exchange Management Shell

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/exchange/en-US/d50f27d0-9395-40af-94bb-a7320f7e8ef0/unable-to-connect-to-local-exchange-2013-server-when-opening-exchange-management-shell - .

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2013/04/02/released-exchange-server-2013-rtm-cumulative-update-1.aspx - cu1 update.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12411046/error-connecting-to-exchange-server-remotely-via-powershell

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd335083%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx – what needs to run powershell remote.

http://blog.subvertallmedia.com/2013/01/30/cant-open-exchange-shell-or-console-because-of-kerberos-authentication-error/ - very promising solution.

Removing a vm from hyper, forcefully

When moving around vhdx-files for Hyper-V machines the machine might get in a disconnected mode. Words like catastrophic failure and disconnected state where thrown around.

Well, Ive removed the files. I know nothing important is missing and I just want the vm gone from my HyperV Manager Console.

Didn’t work with powershell, remove-vm –name “bloodymachine” , gets error about state. This worked though:

1. Stop Hyper-V services from HyperV Manager
2. Go to : C:\Programdata\microsoft\windows\hyper-v\virtual machines and delete the GUID that is associated with the machine. If you don’t know find the GUID, just check created date. Really only recommended in a lab-environment.
3. Start Hyper-V services and the menacing machine is vanquished

For really finding out GUID check out references

References:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/m2/archive/2008/07/04/how-to-get-the-bios-guid-from-a-hyper-v-vm.aspx?ppud=4&wa=wsignin1.0 – finding out GUID HyperV

http://www.petri.co.il/get-hyper-v-virtual-machine-process-id-and-guid.htm – more GUID exploration guides.

http://ashwaniashwin.wordpress.com/2013/04/17/hyper-v-error-while-deleting-virtual-machine-the-operation-cannot-be-performed-while-the-object-is-in-its-current-state/

Cancel juniper reboot

To remove scheduled reboot from a screenOS Juniper/Netcreen device

/>Get timer (take not of ID of task that is to be cancelled)

/> Unset timer 0 (where 0 is the id from above)

References:

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=KB5750

Refs or no refs

Should we start to use refs on ours filesystems?

Maybe, but not if any of the following true.

• It’s a domain controller – Refs doesn’t support hard links among other things.
• SQL Server – missing features like dbcc checkdb and snapshots.
• HyperV – missing features like integrity streams on vhdx
• It’s a bootpartition

Also there a few posts out there that have experienced problems with not being able to access refs-volumes after sudden power losses.

Why do we event want to use refs then?

• Refs handles corrupted files better
• Doesn’t need to use checkdisk anymore.

I think I’ll stick to ntfs for a little while longer…

References:

http://www.unitrends.com/hyper-v-backup/refs-generation-file-system-part-1/

http://www.petri.co.il/4-reasons-refs-is-better-than-ntfs.htm

http://windowsitpro.com/hyper-v/dont-use-refs-hyper-v

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserver8gen/thread/b14ddfe9-c31b-4dd8-a459-b177e355bdb1

http://www.aidanfinn.com/?p=13245

Performance Point Services from scratch

Symptoms:
When trying to access sharepoint from Dashboard Designer error is thrown.
or

Solution:
Make sure these are installed:
From SQL Server 2012 Feature pack:
 -  Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012 ADOMD.NET and
 -  Microsoft® Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2012
From SQL Server 2008 R2:
 -  Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2 ADOMD.NET and
 -  Microsoft® Analysis Services OLE DB Provider for Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 R2

Make sure all these things are configured.
1. Start Secure Store Service

a. Central Administration> Application Management> Manage Services on Server> Secure Store Service > Start

2. Run iisreset

a. Cmd > iisreset

3. Create new Secure Store Service

a. Central Administration>Application Management> Manage Service Applications > New Secure Store Service (default settings)

4. Generate Key for Secure Store Service.

a. Central Administration>Application Management>Manage Service Applications> Secure Store Service (created above) Generate New Key

i. Use passphrase: P@ssw0rd! (optional)

5. Refresh Key for Secure Store Service.
a. Central Administration>Application Management>Manage Service Applications> Secure Store Service (created above)>Refresh Key
6. Create domain user :adventureworks\sp_unattend
a. Using Active Directory Users and Computers>New User sp_unattend with password: P@ssw0rd!
7. Create SQL Login, add db_datareader perm for sp_unattend

a. Using SQL Management Studio >Security>Logins>New Login> Loginname: Sp_unattend (or search for it)

b. User Mapping> db_datareader for all databases needed

8. Create new Performance Point Service

a. Central Administration>Application Management>Manage Service Application>New Performance Point Service Application

i. Add this service applications proxy to farm default

ii. Other Default or new application pool if needed.

9. Configure Performance Point Service, add Unattended Account.

a. Central Administration>Application Management>Manage Service Application>Performance Point Services(created above)>PerformancePoint Service Application Settings> Add adventureworks\sp_unattend as unattended service account

10. Optional Restart Server or IISReset again if any problems.
Note that if server has less than 4GB available this might not work and result in eventid3 >WebhostFailedToProcessARequest
References:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee748643.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/performancepoint/archive/2009/11/24/deploying-performancepoint-2010-soup-to-nuts.aspx - good site for config .secure services

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=1697 - SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature pack

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=29065  - SQL Server 2012 Feature pack

http://bhavikmerchant.wordpress.com/2012/12/08/setting-up-a-sharepoint-2013-bi-demo-vm/ - more detailed guide

Deploy printer through GPO

So I recently acquired an old printer for my home network. It’s a usb-only device so I need to connect it to my Server 2012 Essentials Server. Printers didn’t automatically work like they did on my W8 computer. Apparently a security feature that stops Server 2008+ from looking at Windows Update for printer drivers.

Anyways I now need to deploy this printer to all my home computers. Now I can just go around and connect manually from all machines but how fun is that. So, I’ll deploy it from a group policy. Easy and done right? So using GPO preference I add the printer and deploy it to my user OU. Hmm, nothing happens. Instead I receive an Event 4098 : Specified printer driver was not found.

After a bit of trial and error I found the solution. Creating a different GPO like on picture below and deploying it on the root gpo node makes it work.

Not really good security practice but it’ll work for my home network.

References:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverGP/thread/8c7f439c-be8c-4511-99fd-566985522673

Open with explorer causes IE10 to crash

This started happening a while ago, so don’t really know which update that caused this.

Symptom:

From a Sharepoint 2013 Document library a user tries the feature “Open With Explorer” only to be presented with error Page not responding or IE10 simply crashes. Users with IE10+W8 and IE10+W7 and S2008R2 is reporting error.

Solution:

When changing browsing mode to IE8 in the  Developer Tools in the function starts to work again. (Hit F12)

If this is true, install KB2600100 and reboot sharepoint server. Worked for me.

Se GigaJim post below for more details as exactly what the Kb does.

References:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2600100/en-us

http://gigajim.com/blog/2012/12/11/sharepoint-2010-and-ie10-incompatibility