By default, Microsoft Exchange Server will place the MailStore database in the installation folder as followed : C:\Program Files\Micros oft\Exchange Server\V15\Mailbox\Mailbox Database 0000000000\Mailbox Database 0000000000.edb It may be suitable for small scale setup, however you may want to change it to a different path for various reasons when come to medium or large scale setup…… Read More »
If you are running mission critical VMs under VMware, that even doing a planned maintenance for reboot to increase disk space isn’t a proper justification to achieve this task, you have to find a way to to it on the fly! Fortunately, there is ways around to make it happen. 1. You will first do… Read More »
You may end up at some point where you need detailed statistics about time synchronization on your Linux machine. To achieve that, simply do the following : 1. Edit your NTP configuration file : /etc/ntpd.conf 2. Append the following parameters : statistics loopstats statsdir /var/log/ntpstats/ filegen peerstats file peers type day link enable filegen loopstats… Read More »
Having repeated NTFS warning entries in EventViewer as the one below? Log Name: System Source: Ntfs Event ID: 57 Task Category: (2) Level: Warning Description: The system failed to flush data to the transaction log. Corruption may occur. This indicate an issue with the filesystem recovery mechanism and the filesystem might not be fault tolerant… Read More »
Have you noticed the following on the console output of SAP Solution Manager? WARNING: wildcard character used in route target This is because you have a wildcard “*” set in the target host <dest-host> and/or the target port <dest-serv>. SAP do not recommend this practice for security reason and output this warning on purpose. However, this… Read More »
Have you forgotten you Avast Enterprise Administration console password? Fortunately, there is a way to reset it using the “AmsTool.exe” utility, provided with the software. 1. Open the Command Prompt with administrative rights. 2. Enter the following command : “C:\Program Files\AVAST Software\Enterprise Administration\AmsTool.exe” /pwdreset NOTE : If for any reason the command does not complete,… Read More »
Have you experienced the following random error while printing with CUPS? Unable to send trailing nul to printer: Broken pipe printer PRLAX05 disabled since Wed 11 Nov 2015 02:53:29 PM PST – Unable to write print data: Broken pipe There could be multiple reasons for this issue to happen. Have a look at the following : 1. Make… Read More »
Since the latest major version release of CentOS/RHEL 7, it seem that we wen’t a bit crazy about the whole systemd thing… Seriously, having a network interface named “eno16780032” isn’t that great! Fortunately, there is a a way of getting back the old naming convention by following these steps : 1. Edit the Grub configuration… Read More »
If you had installed your RHEL/CentOS 5 system using LSILogic Parallel controller, you may have noticed the horrible I/O performance… You unfortunately cannot just change the controller type and expect your VM to boot. There is a few easy steps to ensure that the OS can boot with the new controller. FIRST thing FIRST :… Read More »
You have noticed such behaviour in the system logs (/var/log/messages)? kernel: httpd invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x201d2, order=0, oomkilladj=0 kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [<ffffffff800cb67d>] out_of_memory+0x8e/0x2f3 kernel: [<ffffffff8002e493>] __wake_up+0x38/0x4f kernel: [<ffffffff8000a7ea>] get_page_from_freelist+0x2/0x442 kernel: [<ffffffff8000f6a2>] __alloc_pages+0x27f/0x308 kernel: [<ffffffff8001308d>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x96/0x17b kernel: [<ffffffff800139d6>] filemap_nopage+0x14c/0x360 kernel: [<ffffffff80008972>] __handle_mm_fault+0x1fd/0x103b kernel: [<ffffffff8000c795>] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x57 kernel: [<ffffffff800671ae>] do_page_fault+0x499/0x842 kernel: [<ffffffff8005ddf9>] error_exit+0x0/0x84 Additionally, the system was hanging/very… Read More »