Author Archives: Jonathan

Binary Royale offers services to its clients which include IT Consultancy Skills in HA, DR and Fault tolerance – implement these technologies into your systems Monitoring – SNMP monitoring of your systems – txt and email alerts Desktop and Server Hosting Hosted Exchange Services AV and AS Scanning for email Reliable Website Hosting – 15 … Read more

Binary Royale offers mail services to its clients which include hosted MS Exchange 2010 services IMAP/POP Outlook Anywhere iPhone / activeSync conenctivity or plain simple webmail To add to this offering, we have now integrated Anti Virus and Anti Spamming Scanning Services into our inbound and outbound flow of mail See http://cronlab.com/ for details This … Read more

Adding Windows Backup Component – Windows Server Core

June 9th, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in Server Core - (Comments Off)

In order to backup your Windows Server Core you will need to install Windows Backup via a command line. To Install Windows Backup use the following command: CODE ocsetup WindowsServerBackup This command IS case sensitive. Once run, you will be able to connect remotely via Windows Server Backup to setup your backup schedule.

iphone connection problems for some users with Exchange 2010

May 23rd, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in MS Exchange 2010 - (Comments Off)

Hi All I had an issue this week where I had installed Exchange 2010, standard setup, onto a server and I was having issues with iphone connectivity. The thing that really saved me was the use of https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com/ I don’t own an iPhone myself and using the above online tool helped me to test the … Read more

Windows Search not available in Outlook 2010

May 20th, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in Windows - (Comments Off)

This post relates to Windows Server 2008 R2 and Outlook 2010 My setup is that I have a terminal server running Office 2010, hence why it’s installed on a Windows Server. During use of Outlook a “Windows Search” is not installed message was showing in the bottom pane, within the client. This is how to … Read more

This applies to those who have installed a standard SSL external certificate onto their Exchange server Hi All As you’re all probably aware, Exchange 2010 likes to have a certificate installed, under the “Server Configuration” node, to apply to SMTP, IIS, POP, UM, IMAP etc Out of the box, you can create a self signed … Read more

Opening the Control Panel via Command Line / Run – Win 2008

May 5th, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in Windows - (Comments Off)

Hi All I have a Windows Server which is tied down, so that the control panel is not visible. I therefore needed to work out how to open it up, via a command. It was dead simple, after doing some digging around. CODE Goto start and then run – alternatively hit “Windows Key” + R … Read more

setting up remote access to mysql on Ubuntu

May 4th, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in Ubuntu - (Comments Off)

Hi All Today I also had to setup mysql on Ubuntu and allow for remote connections to it. There are a few things that need to be done, to get this working, after you have installed mysql-server 1. Edit my.cnf to bind to the servers REAL IP address sudo vi /etc/mysql/my.cnf edit the line which … Read more

Installing Ubuntu 11.04 Server on Microsoft Hyper-V

May 4th, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in Ubuntu - (Comments Off)

Hi All I had to install Ubuntu Server onto a Hyper-V virtual machine today. I started off with version 10.04 using the instructions detailed here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/10/21/installing-ubuntu-server-10-10-on-hyper-v.aspx and it worked OK, other than the fact that it crashed at one point, it was hard to restart and gave a few storage errors on boot up. It … Read more

Clearing down Queues on Exchange 2010 – SPAM attack

May 3rd, 2011 | Posted by Jonathan in MS Exchange 2010 - (Comments Off)

Hi All   I had an issue this weekend where I realised one of the Exchange mail servers, I manage, was getting used as an “Open Relay”. My fault entirely for not understanding how to secure the “receive connectors” properly. Anyway I deleted the SMTP receive connector, which accepted external connections. I’ll deal with the … Read more