Check if activation is blocked on that server for the DB

Check if activation is blocked on that server for the DB. The error indicates that

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus  MBX-DB1\EMAIL2 |FL activationsuspended

or for the entire server

Get-MailboxServer  EMAIL2 | FL DatabaseCopyAutoActivationPolicy

If you want to remove that block:

Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus  MBX-DB1\EMAIL2 |  Resume-MailboxDatabaseCopy

Database Unable to Mount while Restoring the Microsoft Exchange Database

Symptom

When I restore a Microsoft Exchange database, the database is unable to mount. The required logs are missing or the transaction logs are not contiguous. There are event errors such as 454, 455, and 2006 in the event log.

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HOW TO: DELETE AND RE-CREATE THE EXCHANGE ECP VIRTUAL DIRECTORY

To delete the ECP virtual directory of your Exchange server and re-create it from scratch, you can use the below to get the identity of the virtual directory.

get-EcpVirtualDirectory |fl

Use this to remove the virtual directory in question

Remove-EcpVirtualDirectory -identity "MYSERVER\ecp (Exchange Back End)"

Create the new virtual directory use the below

New-EcpVirtualDirectory -externalurl "https://outlook.mydomain.com/ecp" -internalurl "https://myserver/ecp" -Server "myserver.mydomain.local"

HOW TO: REMOVE EXCHANGE MAILBOX EXPORT REQUESTS

HOW TO: REMOVE EXCHANGE MAILBOX EXPORT REQUESTS

After a number of exports or imports, you might need to clean up the failed, completed or other status when running the get-mailboxexportrequest report in PowerShell. To clean these open the Exchange PowerShell and run the below.

Clean Export requests

Get-MailboxExportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

Get-MailboxExportRequest -Status Failed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

Clean Import requests

Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Completed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

Get-MailboxImportRequest -Status Failed | Remove-MailboxExportRequest

VCenter 6.7: Resizing disk fails with error message

VCenter 6.7: Resizing disk fails with error message

My VCenter recently failed to resize a disk with error “Invalid operation for device ‘0’”. Here’s how I solved it.

VEEAM failed recently to backup one of your servers. The error message was “Error: Virtual disk size is not a multiple of 1KB.”.

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