One of those D'OH! moments

Sometime last night (or more accurately in the early hours of the morning) my Server 2003 box decided it wasn't going to have a default gateway anymore. The problem first made itself known when we started getting "Mail Delayed" messages back from Exchange. On investigating the problem using Remote Desktop I found that even though a default gateway was set in the LAN properties, "ipconfig /all" and "route print" showed that the box wasn't honouring it. I then made the brilliant decision to disable and re-enable the LAN card.

D'OH! Remember, I was using Remote Desktop to do this! Luckily I had an EMS connection to the Server so I was able to re-enable the connection from there. I'm lucky that 2003 supports this, unlike 2000, else I would have to crawl around attaching cables to my headless server.
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One of those D'OH! moments

Sometime last night (or more accurately in the early hours of the morning) my Server 2003 box decided it wasn't going to have a default gateway anymore. The problem first made itself known when we started getting "Mail Delayed" messages back from Exchange. On investigating the problem using Remote Desktop I found that even though a default gateway was set in the LAN properties, "ipconfig /all" and "route print" showed that the box wasn't honouring it. I then made the brilliant decision to disable and re-enable the LAN card.

D'OH! Remember, I was using Remote Desktop to do this! Luckily I had an EMS connection to the Server so I was able to re-enable the connection from there. I'm lucky that 2003 supports this, unlike 2000, else I would have to crawl around attaching cables to my headless server.
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Exchange 2003 OWA displays FTP style directory

If this happens to you the simplest answer is to recreate the web access directories. You can't just delete them and restart the SA service as you did in Exchange 2000!


1. Backup the IIS metabase
2. Delete the Exchange virtual directories in IIS Manager
3. Delete the /AD2MB path using ADSUTIL.VBS
4. Restart Exchange 2003 SA
5. Restore permissions to virtual directories

Microsoft has it covered here.

JRNL_WRAP_ERROR

Windows 2000 domain with a single domain controller was suffering the following error message in NTFRS Log in event viewer. After advice from Microsoft we set the following registry entry:

HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\NtFrs\Parameters\Backup/Restore\Process at Startup
BurFlags REG_DWORD 0xD2

This forces a non-authorative restore for SysVol and allows the message to disappear - Setting it to 0xd4 would have forced an Authoratative restore.

Thursday Evening

Left at 19:00 to arrive at Ipswich at 20:11 but arrived at 20:17. Not bad, only 6 minutes late. We've gone ober the 3 hour barrier - Now we have it at 3:03 for the week so far but there is still Friday to go.

Thursday Morning

Caught the 06:53 to arrive at 08:09. Not bad as we arrived at 08:10 - Just a minute late. So that's now 2:57 late for the week.

Wednesday evenings...

Caught the 19:00 (had some work to catch up with) expecting to get into Ipswich at 20:11 but we eventually rolled in at 20:42. Some 33 minutes late. That brings the total lateness up to 2:56 for the week so far.

Wednesdays....

 I planned to catch the 6:23 again this morning as I needed to do some work on the way in but due to my bloody printer deciding it wasn't going to squirt ink out of the inkjets I ended up on the 06:38 again.

Due to a "delayed preceding freight train" we didn't arrive until 08:13 instead of 07:57. That's another 16 minutes making the total for the week 2:21 wasted.
Wednesdays!!

Tuesdays

After the problems with travel yesterday I decided to catch the 06:23 (couldn't face the 05:53) only to find it was canceled! Had to catch the 06:38 which arrived a minute early at 07:56. Still I calculate I had to waste 14 minutes because of the cancelation.

I caught the 18:30 back again (due 19:38) but it didn't arrive until 19:49. The reason give for my wasted 11 minutes was that there was a suspect package on the earlier train (18:20) that had to be dealt with by police.

Mon Out 00:26
Mon In 01:14
Tue Out 00:14
Tue In 00:11

Total late (So far) 02:05

TUESDAYS!!!

Converted to CS v1.0

CSVerter (Build 50301) finally worked for me. I think it was a combination of the new build and me using SQL authentication rather than Windows integrated that did it. This time the DTS packages were created and the blog content migrated.

Cheers Robert!