How To Hide/Remove the Windows Search Toolbar From the XP Taskbar

As a part of our late rollout of windows search 4.0 to our windows xp clients it was necessary to
remove the search toolbar from taskbar. Below you will find my results and hope that it helps
anyone in the same boat.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Desktop Search\DS] "ShowStartSearchBand"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Policies\Microsoft\DesktopSearch]
"DB"=dword:00000001

I found the above in a post on this fourm.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/windowsdesktopsearchdevelopment/thread/2a0e1cd0-4a0f-4fb0-a819-9e57c8e905e9

Stop Outlook 2010 from moving emails to junk

Looking for a way to stop emails that are securely relayed anonymously off your internal receive connector from being caught by outlook 2010 junk filter?

The MS Exchange Team sheds some light on the issue here.

So a little history on my issue. I currently have a receive connector configured to allow anonymous email to be relayed with in our organization, to allow servers and such to send out notifications.  we have had speratic issue with emails from our onbase servers being caught by outlook 2010's junk mail filters.
My first attempt to correct this issue as to add our domain to Outlooks safe sender list, but that had no effect as exchange would remove the entry after applying it. next I added the ms-exch-bypass-anti-spam permission to the anonymous user on for my receive connector and for awhile that worked. Recently though, we have started to have the issue resurface. After reading this post by the Exchange team I have learned that ms-exch-bypass-anti-spam only bypasses exchanges spam filters not Outlooks. At the recomendation of Microsoft I will be installing the anti-spam filters on our hub transport servers and add the IP's of our internal server to the safe list to have the actual spam score set to -1 to prevent the message from going into Outlooks junk filter.

-Till Next Time

A Great Exchange Enviroment Report Script

While looking for a PS script today to report what there installed verison including any Update Rollups I found this PS Script that gives and exchange admin a good look in to what is going on with there exchange enviroment. Check it out for your self http://www.stevieg.org/2011/06/exchange-environment-report/  Thanks Steve Goodman for the great script.

Another GroupWise to Exchange Migration

Well, I am at it again, migrating a recent acquisition from GroupWise to Exchange 2010. I hope to later in December post the scripts that I used to take our Quest exports to Mail-Enable all the users and configure the mailbox settings.



Well back to the Migration

MFCMAPI

Today I learned the power of MFCMAPI!

While troubleshooting an issue for a user I used MFCMAPI to view the MailStore for the user allowing me to view all folders in her mailbox including the hidden ones. Once I was able to locate the "missing" folder I was able to copy/move the folder back to the root of the mailbox.

Download MFCMAPI here: http://mfcmapi.codeplex.com/

Rebuilding theWMI Repository Rebuild

Here is  a nice little batch file that I found to rebuild your WMI repository.


If you see the following error code in your C:\windows\system32\wbem\logs\wbemcore.log you are seeing
0x80041002 errors then it would be a good idea to have that repository rebuilt. This also resolves issues with the the error code -2147217406 Not able to connect to WMI namespace "root\CIMV2"
Once the batch file below is run you will need to restart the device. Please note that if you have SCCM installed you will need to reinstall the client as all the WMI Namespaces are removed.

net stop winmgmt /y
c: 
cd %systemroot%\system32\wbem 
rd /S /Q repository 

regsvr32 /s %systemroot%\system32\scecli.dll 
regsvr32 /s %systemroot%\system32\userenv.dll 

mofcomp cimwin32.mof 
mofcomp cimwin32.mfl 
mofcomp rsop.mof 
mofcomp rsop.mfl 
for /f %%s in ('dir /b /s *.dll') do regsvr32 /s %%s 
for /f %%s in ('dir /b *.mof') do mofcomp %%s 
for /f %%s in ('dir /b *.mfl') do mofcomp %%s 

Thanks http://msmvps.com/blogs/lduncan/pages/20217.aspx for putting this together .

Let me start by saying this is the weirdest issue I have ran into that I have not been able to resolve without taking drastic measures.

Synopsis of the issue:

A single user calls stating that the mailboxes that she has full access to are no longer showing up and free/busy searches are no longer working and in testing OOF is not working either. As a part of troubleshooting the issue I delete and attempt to recreate the users mail profile (No Dice acts like auto discover fails or the mailbox cannot be found) , run a test of autodiscover from the Outlook client it failes with the error code of 0x800C8203. Additionally I test Autodiscover via the test-outlookwebservices cmdlet it test fine but when the cmdlet is run adding the -Identity option with the users email address I get the following error Autodiscover returned the error: 603:The Active Directory user wasn't found. After a quick google search I was able to find a somewhat simple yet painful fix of deleting the AD account and reconnecting the mailbox, at this point I was willing to try anything. So I disconnected the mailbox from the user, deleted the AD account then recreate the AD and reconnect the mailbox and like magic everything was working as it should.

Should any one reading this post know of a better solution the killing the AD account please feel free to leave a comment below with the fix.

-Till next time