From the monthly archives:

July 2004

NetApp Volume Fails To Mount After Power Outage

July 23, 2004

A power outage (are rolling blackouts back in California??) earlier in the morning, and the resulting mess. The new cluster (Windows 2003/Exchange 2003) with NetApp’s iSCSI filer came up happily. The older one (that uses NetApp’s older VLD protocol) failed. Issues: L: drive (Storage Group 1, Logs) would not connect/map, so Exchange Group in cluster would [...]

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Import user attributes from OpenLDAP

July 21, 2004

Recently I imported the employeeID (and a few other attributes) from an OpenLDAP directory into Active Directory. Problem was different distinguishedName attributes in both directories – the OpenLDAP directory had a different OU structure. So we have a LDIF Dump from OpenLDAP in the format : dn: distinguishedName not consistent with AD uid:  *******  (Active [...]

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Where’s LDIFDE on XP Professional?

July 21, 2004

The Windows XP Professional docs tell you the LDIFDE utility is avaialble on that OS, but I haven’t been able to find it. Simply copy it from a Windows Server 2003 installation – it’s in %Systemroot%\System32.

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Adding IMAP4 Virtual Server to Cluster takes cluster group offline

July 9, 2004

You’ve just built a shiny new Windows Server 2003 cluster, installed Exchange Server 2003, created an Exchange Virtual Server (EVS) and tested MAPI, HTTP, Cluster Failover, et al – things look great! User calls, can’t access mail on new EVS using IMAP4. When you create the Exchange Virtual Server by creating the System Attendant resource [...]

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NetApp SnapManager for Exchange (SME) Restore takes Physical Disk offline

July 7, 2004

I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with NetApp’s SnapManager for Exchange (SME) backup utility. To restore a store, SME needs to take the Physical Disk resource offline. (Actually swaps it with the volume/LUN that has the backup). When this happens, the Exchange System Manager (and thereby the entire Exchange Virtual Server) goes down – because [...]

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