Issue You do not see an option to create a new folder or file or if you try to copy something on a drive, you get “cannot write to disk”. This can happen to one, few, or all drives. I confirmed that the disk status was NOT set to “read only” or permissions issue. Fix... Continue Reading →
Citrix VDA Gets Unregistered As Soon As App Is Launched
Recently, I have experienced an odd issue which took several days to get to the root cause of it and getting it resolved. Issue: Citrix VDA Version 1912 CU2 gets unregistered as soon as an app is launched. End user would get an error “Could not open the app”. They had 2 VDAs and this... Continue Reading →
Adding A Shared Mailbox on Citrix Secure Mail Along with your Primary Mailbox
How To Shared Mailbox in Citrix Secure Mail along with Main Mailbox?
How To Get A list Of All Mounted Databases on Exchange Server
In a DAG Environment, where you have got multiple exchange servers in a DAG it's important to know the exact number of databases on each server to make sure no server has more load than the other and all databases are equally balanced across the servers in DAG. Following command will give you the number... Continue Reading →
Disable Facebook From Tracking Your Activities
Do you know you are getting tracked by Facebook? Have you noticed when you were searching to buy something online and you start getting Ads for that item on Facebook? Facebook keeps track of pretty much everything you do especially the apps you use by using face book account. For e.g. you are trying to... Continue Reading →
Error Adding Android Apps on Citrix Xen Mobile
Recently, I was trying to add Microsoft Teams App on Citrix Xen Mobile. It worked fine with IOS as I was able to search for Microsoft Teams in search and it showed up but for Android I was getting an error instead. I had to search for Microsoft Teams google play store on google and... Continue Reading →
Generating a Report of Mailboxes Who Have Crossed Quota Threshold
Recently, I have got a request to send a copy of all users who are reaching or at or above mailbox quota threshold to one of the Administrators. By default, quota threshold limit notifications are sent to users themselves only. Even if an Exchange Transport rule is set up for this, it won't work. Following... Continue Reading →
Email Forwarding Report
Recently, I worked on getting a report of all users who have Email forwarding enabled. Users can have forwarding enabled at their mailbox level and / or mailbox rules. Forwarding Enabled on Mailbox Level: Get-Mailbox -Organizationalunit "OU Path" | where {$_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null} | ft -wrap -autosize Name, ForwardingAddress, DeliverToMailboxAndForward Forwarding Set up using Mailbox... Continue Reading →
Blocked Active Sync Device
I have recently come across an issue where a device status was Blocked. It was Allowed from Exchange Online portal but after refreshing it, it goes back to the Blocked state. I ran the following command on exchange power shell to find out the device ID of the device that was in Blocked status. Make... Continue Reading →
Mystery Of Some UserA Emails Being Sent to UserB As Well
I have across an issue recently where I spent quite some time to figure out the cause. Few emails destined to UserA were also being delivered to UserB. If it was a forwarding, all emails would get forwarded but in this case it was few emails only and it was random. I made sure that... Continue Reading →
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