This blog is part two of three of how you can make a back-up and more importantly of how you can recover items from a mailbox. In part one I described which setting to set for a exchange 2010 back-up job.  In this part I will explain how to configure the virtual lab and application group  that are necessary for restoring exchange items from a specific mailbox. I will also show how to make a surebackup verification job. The virtual lab and application group are part of the surebackup option of Veeam.

SureBackup is technology in Veeam Backup & Replication which can  be used to have a automate and simplify backup verification process. Within surebackup the virtual machine  runs directly form the back-up in a isolated environment and I will test if all the depended services are up and running. For exchange it will test if all ports are are up and running like port 25 for example. Within the surebackup section of the software you can make a job to test the back-up automatically. In the picture below you see the the SureBackup section and below this there is a member called Jobs here is where you will make the testing job.

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I am a person that has two phones one for business and one for private. Why? I just want to keep private and working live separated. But this is not always possible. So I got two cell phones one IPhone and one android. And I must say the android is fine but there is a difference. So i like the IPhone more than the android and i don’t want to walk around with two phones all the time so I forwarded the calls that are made to the android phone to the IPhone but I was still missing the SMS that where send! Yeah the old school thing before whatsapp    so I was looking for a app that will forward my SMS including the sender data (name and phone number). There are several free apps that will do this for you but without the senders data and that’s not handy. So I found a paid app for android that works great! And yes it is a paid app! So what did the android community brought us more than the Iphone community? I don’t know! If you want a good app you must paid for it (There are always exceptions). The app is called SMS Forwarder Pro and can be found in the market place for €1,15 ! I think this is the best app ever for an android  

So in the end I think all android phone users dream of apple because why else would this app exist  

Yesterday I needed to set a few registry keys remotely from a 32 bit windows machine to a 64 bit machine.

I used reg.exe to set the key but even though it returned success the key wasn’t altered.

As I suspected the key was written to the Wow6432Node. In the help I couldn’t find any switch to force reg.exe to use the 64-bit view.

On a 64 bit machine this is not a problem since both 32- and 64 bit versions of reg.exe exists. The 32 bit version of reg.exe defaults to the 32 bit view and the 64 bit version defaults to the 64 bit view.

But luckily reg.exe has a switch (that is not listed in the help) to force the View:

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Author : Ingmar Verheij
I’ve built a lab to run some tests on Citrix XenApp. Since this is a lab environment I do not have enough resources to create dedicated machines for each role. Therefore I found it justified to create a virtualized domain controller (dc001.domain.local) with multiple roles and multi-homed (Boooohhh, I know). The machine is not only a domain controller but also has the DNS and DHCP role.

The following network interfaces are present on dc001.domain.local:

• Local Area Connection 1 : 192.168.1.1/24
• Local Area Connection 2:  192.168.2.1/24

The Citrix XenApp server is a dedicated physical machine with a single network interface:

• Local Area Connection 1 : 192.168.1.2/24

After creating a published desktop I’ve tried to connect from a machine in the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet. The session keeps waiting with the message ‘Please wait for the Local Session Manager’.

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Author : Ingmar Verheij

WANem is (as the name implies) a WAN emulator that’s available for free and therefor ideal to use in a lab environment. WANem is built on the Knoppix distribution and supplied as a bootable ISO or a virtual appliance. Unfortunately the virtual appliance is only provided for the VMware hypervisor.

I’ve got a lab built on the Citrix XenServer hypervisor and should therefore use the ISO. Installing (or actually booting) WANem is no rocket science, using it is a bit more complex. A guy named José Luis Gómez Ferrer de Couto has written an easy to understand  tutorial  (in Spanish) how to use WANem in Citrix XenServer.

Unfortunately there is a small pitfall on my Citrix XenServer 5.6 machine, the network is unreachable.

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In Windows 7 and 2008 R2 all IP Addresses are by default registered in DNS.

If you don’t want certain IP addresses to appear in DNS you can alter this behavior with Netsh using the skipassource flag.

Use the following syntax to add an additional IP Address with skipassource flag:

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Author : Ingmar Verheij

Latency is the time required for a package to travel to its destination. Latency arises because the media the packet is travelling on has limits (for instance bandwith) and because the packet has to be processed by systems (like NIC’s, switches, routers, etc.).

The more items in a chain the bigger the latency.

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This blog is going to be be part one of three of how you can make a back-up and more importantly of how you can recover items from a mailbox. Part one will describe how to configure the backup job. Part two will describe how to configure the virtal lab that is necessary for restoring exchange items from a specific mailbox. Part two wil describe how to configure the recover item(s) from a mailbox. In this series I made the assumption that you have Veeam Back-up and replication (enterprise) installed if not you will manage!

The scheme below gives an overview of my Exchange environment

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Okay, a new one in the IOS 5 update soap Now the iPad is causing trouble! The following error occurres:

An error occured while backing up this iPad (-5000).  Would you like to
continue to update this iPad?

Continuing will result in the loss of all contents on this iPad.

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On an Exchange 2010 environment I needed to allow smtp relaying for specified hosts. The procedure for doing this is explained clearly in the Exchange 2010 documentation.

So I created a relay connector on all servers with the HT role and since we are using Virtual Loadbalancing appliances from LoadBalancer.org to loadbalance the HT and CAS roles I wanted the relay connectors to be loadbalanced as well.

So how do we configure this?

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