Author Archives: Idit Bnaya

Office365 – Enable or disable IMAP, POP, OWA, MAPI, or Exchange ActiveSync for a mailbox

Posted on December 24, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

Enable or disable IMAP, POP, OWA, MAPI, or Exchange ActiveSync for a mailbox in Exchange Server in office365 1. Connect to office365 PowerShell  – https://www.itblog.co.il/how-to-connect-remote-powershell-to-the-office365s-cloud-based-organization/ 2. To see the current state for the mailbox – type : Get-CASMailbox -Identity “Mailbox … Continue reading →

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System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager Toolkit – is now available for Download

Posted on December 8, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

This toolkit should help ConfigMgr Admins troubleshoot and manage their environments more effectively Server Based Tools DP Job Manager – A tool that helps troubleshoot and manage ongoing content distribution jobs to Configuration Manager distribution points. Collection Evaluation Viewer – … Continue reading →

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Enable-MSOnlinePasswordSync failed. Error: The pipeline has been stopped, the service is not operational

Posted on December 1, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

I ran into this error While installing Dirsync on a DC server The error shown “The Server is not operational” Event log: “Enable-MSOnlinePasswordSync failed. Error: The pipeline has been stopped.” The solution was simply to log off and log on … Continue reading →

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Netapp – Create new LUN for exchange DB Using Netapp 2020

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

  This guide provide the steps to take in order to create new Database in Exchange using Netapp storage and snap drive In this case , I’m using Netapp 2020   1. Check Space Availability Available storage in NetApp filers … Continue reading →

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Office 365 – Assigning Volume license to existing office365 tenant

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

In order to import an Microsoft volume license to Office365 tenant , take the following steps :   1. Go to – http://office.microsoft.com/setup365 2. under "Already an Office 365 customer?" click "Sign in" Enter your Office 365 account Enter your … Continue reading →

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Use PowerCLI to Backup and Restore ESXi Host Configuration

Posted on October 8, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

The following post will guide you through the steps necessary to backup Esxi host configuration with PowerCLI Steps : 1. first you need to download the vSphere PowerCLI – installer 2. Open Powershell and Type: Add-PSSnapin VMware.VimAutomation.Core Or, for all … Continue reading →

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Exchange 2003 – SMTP error 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for user@domain.com

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

One of my customer got this error after adding a new SMTP domain to mailboxes. In his case he add the email address directly from the AD to some mailboxes and then got this error when trying to send them … Continue reading →

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Error when trying to add members to distribution group in Exchange 2010

Posted on September 30, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

“Changes to the distribution list membership cannot be saved. You do not have sufficient permission to perform this operation on this object.” In Exchange 2010  you need to enable the ability to manage distribution groups Logon to ECP –> under … Continue reading →

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Failed to Add a Subdomain to Office 365

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Idit Bnaya

When you try to add a sub domain to office365 via the Office365 portal  , you get this error: Can’t add domain “Sub.Mydomain.com is a subdomain of a domain which was added by using the Microsoft Online Services Module for … Continue reading →

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