Entries by Mike Khzouz

PowerShell failed to invoke ‘New-FederationTrust’: Unable to access the Federation Metadata document from the federation partner

We were in the process of migrating mailboxes on-premise Exchange 2013 running on Windows Server 2012 to office 365  and while installing the Hybrid Configuration Wizard we were getting the following error. PowerShell failed to invoke ‘New-FederationTrust’: Unable to access the Federation Metadata document from the federation partner. Detailed information: “The underlying connection was closed: […]

Exchange mailbox move – Unable to open message store. hr=0x80040111, ec=-2147221231

When trying to move a mailbox from one Exchange server 2008/2010/2013 to another or from Database to another you get the error message below.  Fixing it is easy if you have used ASDIEdit before.  Basically you are going to reset the Exchange Mailbox Move Values… Sample Error: Data migrated: Migration rate: Error: MigrationTransientException: Failed to […]

There are blocking issues for the physical-to-virtual conversion, there is no BCD boot…

There are two traditional ways to move physical machines to Hyper-V virtual machine using Microsoft Tools. 1- Microsoft Virtual Machine Converter When you try to convert a Windows server 2012 for example from physical to a VM, you might get the following error: Microsoft Virtual machine Converter encountered an error while attempting to convert the […]

The ACE doesn’t exist on the object

When attempting to remove permissions from Exchange server mailbox using Exchange Management Shell… Powershell Remove-MailboxPermission -identity…. You get the following error WARNING: Can’t remove the access control entry on the object… because the ACE doesn’t exist on the object. There is abundance of articles on the Internet on to deal with this… mostly confusing and […]

SonicWALL – Can not access the appliance for Security. Please contact administrator

When you try to access SonicWALL SMA (Secure Mobile Appliance) using NetExtender you get “SonicWALL – Can not access the appliance for Security. Please contact administrator” Resolution: Make sure you type the domain correctly in the NetExtender and with the right case. The domain is Case Sensitive.  So if your domain on the SMA is configured […]

httpCookies httpOnlyCookies=”true” requireSSL=”true” – PCI vulnerability

If you have a Microsoft Exchange Server running OWA that failed a PCI vulnerability scan because of the following: <httpCookies httpOnlyCookies=”true” requireSSL=”true”/> Here what we can do to remediate it on the Windows server. Schedule a brief downtime for the Exchange Server while IIS restarts below. Launch IIS on the Exchange server, go to Default Web […]