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Applying bulk calendar permissions Exchange 2010

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You have multiple mailboxes and need to make a bulk change to all calendars, for example you would like for one user to be able to access all user calendars.

Microsoft have released a new tool called exfolders.exe. The download also includes a read me file with clear instructions on how to get started.

If you’re using Exchange 2007, download PFDAVADMIN. PFDAVADMIN was replacd by exfolders.exe for Exchange 2010.

DOwnload exfolders here

BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool requirements

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If you’re trying to start the above service on a bes server and experiencing issues starting with the below errors, the below info may be helpful to you.

1) Could not connect to Service Control Manager at
2) Windows could not start the BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool on Local Computer
3) The BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool service terminated with service-specific error 0 (0×0).

BlackBerry® Enterprise Server
 You must run the BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool on a computer that is separate from the BlackBerry Enterprise Server components.
 
BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool service and client
 You must run the BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool service (messageconfirmservice.exe) and the BlackBerry Message Receipt Confirmation Tool client (messageconfirmconfig.exe) on the same computer.

Windows Media Videos buffer and timeout

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You launch a Windows media video via a website. The video buffers for a couple of minutes or more and then stops. You use a proxy server.

Firstly, Window Media Player does not support proxy addresses with fully qualified domain names. This may change with newer versions. If you use a

proxy server and is set to something like ‘server.domain.com’ within Internet Explorer, amend this so it’s just server (without the domain.com)

 Try again. If issue still exists follow the instructions below:

1) Launch Window Media Player on your machine
2) Click Tools
3) Click Options
4) Click the network tab
5) Under Streaming proxy Settings, by default you should have http set to browser and MMS, RTSP set to none.
6) Click on http and click the button configure
7) Click use the following proxy server and type your proxy server name (just the servername) and the port.
8.) Click OK and OK again
9) Close and reopen Internet Explorer and try again

If the issue still exists, try the below

1) Launch Window Media Player on your machine
2) Click Tools
3) Click Options
4) Click the network tab
5) Under Streaming proxy Settings, click http and click the configure button.
6) Select Do not use a proxy and click OK
7) Click MMS and click the configure button
8.) select Use the following proxy server and enter your proxy details
9) Click OK
10) Click RTSP and click the configure button
11) Select Use the following Proxy server and enter your proxy details.
12) Click OK and OK again
13) Close and reopen Internet Explorer and try again

If the issue still exists setup monitoring on your firewall to monitor what’s going on whilst you play videos. You may also want to run tools such as wire shark on the machine you are attempting to run the video from.

 If the issue still exists, and if you have a third party such as Websense filtering your Internet traffic, give them a call.

Installing Windows Vista/Windows 7 driver on Windows 2003/2008 server

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You’re trying to install a 32 bit driver for Windows 7/Vista onto a 32/64 Windows 2003/2008 server.

When you try to install the driver, you receive errors such as:

“The specified location does not contain the driver for the requested processor architecture”

To get around this:

1) Open the Print Management console located under administrative tools on your Vista/Windows 7 machine
2) Right click Print Server and click Add/Remove Servers
3) Add your print server and click OK
4) Expand your printer in the left hand pane
5) Right click drivers and click on ‘add print driver’
6) Click Next
7) Select x86 and unselect the others
8.) Click next
9) This will display the drivers on the current Vista/Windows 7 machine
10) Select the driver on your Windows Vista/7 machine you wish to install on the print server
11) Click Next
12) The print driver will now install to the print server

Done. Not a great way of getting around this issue, but does the trick.