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Microsoft Exchange
Cannot Get Mail, The Connection To The Server Failed
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You have setup your account on your iphone or anroid phone and found that it authenticated successfully to your mail server but email is not pulling down and you recieve no error, or ‘can not get email’ or ‘the connection to the server failed’.
Try this, worked for me:
1) Locate the account within AD
2) Right click properties
3) Click the tab ‘Security’
4) Click the button ‘Advanced’
5) Click ‘Include inheritable permissions from this object’s server’
6) Click OK
7) Wait a few minutes
8) Try again
Outlook 2010 Work Offline does not appear or is greyed out
Removing Calendar entries without sending cancellation Outlook 2010
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Those annoying calendar entries you wish to delete but can not because you don’t want to send a cancellation email.
You have visited lots of different sites but there is no real solution to deleting multiple entries.
Microsoft don’t offer a simple solution, such as a simple DELETE button without sending a cancellation request
I will give you two options:
Option 1:
1) Double click on the meeting or appointment entry
2) Click file
3) Click Info
4) Click move item to a different folder
5) Select the deleted items folder
This is one method to use to move an entry without sending out an cancellation message.
Option 2:
If you want to delete in bulk
1) Click Send / Receive located towards the menu bar within Outlook
2) Click Work Offline
3) Now that Outlook is offline, go into your calendar
4) Click View from the top menu bar
5) Click Change View and click list
6) Highlight the emails you wish to delete
7) Delete and send cancellation requests. Because Outlook is offline, all cancellation requests will appear within your Outbox
8) Delete the cancellation request from your Outbox folder
9) Bring Outlook online
10) Done
If the work offline button is not visible or is greyed out see https://cloudbuild.co.uk/?p=2122
OWA Exchange 2003 stuck on loading
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You have setup OWA and accessed the webmail address but find that when you login, icons are not appearing and the page is stuck on loading.
You have been through the various articles and hotfixes but still no luck.
The issue may be related to the anonymous password being used with IIS which is not syncing correctly causing a permissions issues.
Try this:
The below procedure will display the password being used by the IUSR account within IIS.
1) On your Exchange server, browse to C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts
2) Open adsutil.vbs within notepad and locate IsSecureProperty = True. Replace with False. This will allow the password to be visibly shown when you run the command further down.
3) Within the command prompt type cd C:\Inetpub\AdminScripts and press enter
4) Type cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/anonymoususerpass and enter
5) The password being used should display
6) Within Active Directory, locate the IUSR account being used against exchweb within IIS and reset the password to the one which was inputted in step 5 above
7) Restart IIS and OWA should load successfully
Note, for future reference if you want to display the IWAM_account password replace /anonymoususerpass with /wamuserpass See cCommand in step 4).
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