Watch Guard RDP Rule

Login to watched guard. Open policy manager

Save and exit

How do I move System Reserve partition to system partiton C:

If C is a primary partition - mark it active. (Disk management )

Mark sys reserved inactive ( elevated command :

diskpart

sel vol G: ( use E if E is sys resd drive letter )

inact

exi 

bcdboot c:\windows /s c:

Reboot.

BackupAssist - Volume Shadow Copy Error 0x8004230f - unexpected provider error

Solution 1

HDD sector size must be 512K

Not 4096K

Find the suitable HDD

Solution 2

Upgrade the BackupAssist software

The error basically means that the system doesn't have enough of a buffer to hold all write operations occurring during a backup.
You need to increase the area allowed to VSS to buffer such write operations.

Please follow the steps below to check and if need to, adjust the shadow copy space allocated for a particular volume.

To check the current limit set: vssadmin list shadowstorage

To change the limit: vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=X: /On=X: /Maxsize=XX%

or

vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=X: /On=X: /Maxsize=XXGB

This will resize the limit to XX size for the X: drive.

Windows 7 Does not assign a Drive Letter automatically

Open command prompt

type in

diskpart

automount enable

Import a WAB file into Outlook Contacts

Step 1: Import to Windows Contacts

Double click on the .wab file and click Import. (This step is so easy and so fast you might not realize what happened.)

If you don't have the .wab file and still have access to the old computer, look for it at C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Address Book. It may be named username.wab. Copy it to the new computer.

Step 2: Using Outlook 2010 and older

If you use Outlook 2010 or older, you can import the Windows Contacts.

1. Open the Import/Export wizard. In Outlook 2010/2013, it's at File, Open, Import; in older versions, it's on the File menu.
2. Choose Import Internet Mail and Addresses. Click Next.
3. Choose Outlook Express.

4. Deselect Import Mail.
5. Choose whether to allow duplicates to be created.
6. Click Finish.

Depending on how many contacts you have, it can take from a few seconds to a few minutes to import the contacts.

Step 2: Using Outlook 2013

Outlook 2013 has limited import options. Your choices are Comma Separated Values (CSV) or vCards so you'll need to export the contacts from Windows Contacts in either CSV or as vCards. Because it's annoying to import a large number of vcards unless you use a macro, I recommend exporting in CSV format.

1. Open Windows contacts. In Windows 7, type Contacts in the Start search field; in Windows 8, type Contacts on the Start screen. Press Enter to open Contacts.
   Click Export. If you don't see Export to the far right of Organize, expand the bar or maximize the window.

2. Choose CSV (Comma Separated Values) from the Export Windows Contacts dialog.
3. Click Export.

4. Click Browse and type in a name for your CSV file.
5. Click Save, then click Next.
6. Select the fields to include in the Export. I recommend select all fields. (You need to click in each box.)
7. Click Finish the Export.
8. Close the Export dialog.

Now switch to Outlook 2013.

1. Open File, Open & Export.
2. Select Import/Export to open the Import/Export wizard .
3. Choose Import from another program or file. Click Next.

4. Choose Comma Separated Values.
5. Browse to the file you exported earlier
6. Choose whether to allow duplicates to be created.
7. Select your Contacts folder.
8. Click Finish.

Exchange forward email to external address

There are many reasons to need to forward on email collected by Microsoft Exchange, such as vacation planning, change of domains or migration to a new system using dual delivery. This is how you set up Exchange forward email to external address.

Its done in two steps because you need to create a contact for Exchange to send too. If you were forwarding internally you only need the first step as the mailbox exists in Exchange already. 

Create a MailContact

Create a MailContact using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mail Contact

2. In the Action pane, click New Mail Contact

3. To create a new Contact object, leave the default (New Contact) selected | click Next

Leaving New Contact selected to move to the extended settings

4. Type First name, Last name

Adding detail to the new user

5. Click Edit to add the external email address

6. Click New to complete creation of new MailContact

Showing new user created in Mail Contact’s

Forward the Email

Now that we have a MailContact created for the external recipient’s email address, we can forward mail for the Exchange recipient to the MailContact. To configure mail forwarding using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mailbox | select mailbox | properties | Mail Flow Settings tab | Delivery Options

Finding delivery options for a microsoft exchange mailbox

2. Under Forwarding address, select Forward to
3. Click Browse to select the MailContact

Browse to select the mail contact

4. Optional: If a copy of the message needs to be delivered to both the external recipient and the original recipient’s mailbox, select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox

Opting to send the email to both internal and external addresses

OWA Forms Based Authentication Failing

Unable to logon to OWA using forms-based authentication

When a user enters valid credentials, they are taken to a blank page https://ExchCASServerName.domain.com/owa/auth.owa.  But if they enter bad credentials, it just redirects to the logon page and asked them to logon again.

"Microsoft Exchange Forms-Based Authentication service." need to be started.

This service was not running and it was set to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" changing it to just "Automatic" allowed it to start properly.