Month: February 2013

Setup cannot continue with the upgrade because the “beremote()” process has open files: The error listed above is not something to really stress about. If you running Symantec Backup Exec you will need to stop the services and then retry the checks, they should all pass and allow you to carry on with your installation. […]

Today I encountered another error whilst doing an upgrade from Exchange 2010 SP2 to SP3. This was an error on my part as I will explain shortly. The error you can get when updating the UM Role is as follows: “There are no more endpoints available from the endpoint mapper. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800706D9)”. There are […]

Today whilst busy updating one of my other sites I encountered the following error: Some controls aren’t valid. Setup previously failed while performing the action “Install”. You can’t resume setup by performaing the action “BuildToBuildUpgrade”. For some reason Exchange thinks it did not install correctly when the previous installation was done. To fix this you […]

Today I started with upgrades to Service Pack 3 for Exchange 2010. The download is around 549MB. Because all my sites run DAG’s I started with the smallest one. Starting with the Passive server I ran the upgrade, the install runs through a list of checks. A new feature that needs to be installed is […]

Today I got round to setting up a Federation Trust in Exchange 2010. The steps are pretty straight forward but you need to make sure of the following: Autodiscover for your organization resolves externally, you can test this via the following link: https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ Autodiscover External URL is setup in Exchange. TXT records. If you open up […]

Today I decided that our environment needs to be cleaned up and PST files that are a major headache are the first things that need to be looked at. To start off with, MS say that Office 2010 Standard does not support Personal Archives, however I enabled it on my account and it shows, however […]