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Problem:  When trying to backup my exchange 2010 server using Roxio Retrospect 7.7 I got the following error:   “Sorry, can’t list volumes on Exchange mailboxes on exchangeserver. Error 3420 Uknown”.   When I would look at the volumes in the client portion of Retrospect, I got an “Can’t track volumes, error –3420(Unknown).   All of this had to relate to me not being able to browse my Exchange mailboxes.

Solution:  Found a document on Roxio’s site that let me know what needed to be done to backup Exchange 2010.  Looks like the MAPI client libraries weren’t installed on my server.  I had to go to download the the MAPI files and install then onto my server.   I then removed the client and re-authorized/licensed it in the Retrospect program.  Problem Solved.

Roxio’s knowledgebase article on how to setup Retrospect for Exchange 2010.

http://kb.roxio.com/search.aspx?URL=/content/000042RT&PARAMS=set-locale=en

Problem:  Installing Exchange 2010 standard on a Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and get the following error during the readiness check: 

Unable to read data from the Metabase. Ensure that Microsoft Internet Information Services is installed.

Unable to to access ‘Default Web Site’ on this computer…

IIS is installed and the default web site is accessible.

Solution:  Open a Windows PowerShell session by using the “run as administrator” option and run the following commands.  Was able to move past the readiness check after this.

• Import-Module ServerManager
• Add-WindowsFeature NET-Framework,RSAT-ADDS,Web-Server,Web-Basic-Auth,Web-Windows-Auth,Web-Metabase,Web-Net-Ext,Web-Lgcy-Mgmt-Console,WAS-Process-Model,RSAT-Web-Server,Web-ISAPI-Ext,Web-Digest-Auth,Web-Dyn-Compression,NET-HTTP-Activation,RPC-Over-HTTP-Proxy –Restart
• Set-Services NetTcpPortSharing –StartupType Automatic

Links:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691354(EXCHG.140).aspx

Problem:  My Mail Foundry server was having some issues and I couldn’t get into it via the web access…  I would receive the error: ‘unable to load data’ or something close to that.  Either way I wasn’t able to get into the system to allow tech support in.

Solution:  There is a way to enable remote admin with the following URL:

http(s)://(YourMailFoundryAddress)/enable_remote_admin.phtml

Problem:  When trying to run Microsoft Windows updates on my Windows Server 2008 machine, I would get the following error:  “ Windows could not search for new updates”  No matter what I tried, it would not connect to Windows update….  I was able to update in the past but it all of a sudden started to fail…

Solution:  My time zone was wrong.  Got switched to Pacific instead of Mountain… once I changed it back, I was able to connect and update.

Problem:  I constantly get requests from customers to convert PDFs to word format.  There are many programs out there but they are either terrible with the conversion or expensive…

Solution:  Found a website, pdftoword.com and it has an online app that will convert your PDF to a .DOC or .RTF file.  It’s as simple as uploading the file, selecting the file type and adding your email for the new converted doc to be sent.  Best of all, it’s free.  They do have a desktop version but it’s not free. 

Note:  I did run into some problems with this app and that was that it won’t convert any PDF that is deemed protected.  When it does, I get an error saying the conversion failed and that it was because the PDF was protected.