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{ Monthly Archives } September 2009

Creating user home directories – Windows version

I last blogged about provisioning home directories such a long time ago that I talked about Netware. I also used a SQL table alongside to keep track of a status field as I was doing some end-of-life management – zipping up the folder and stowing it in an archive location.
But we don’t need to be [...]

ExternalEmailAddress is mandatory on MailUser

I just got this error while attempting to provision Exchange 2007 users with ILM 2007 FP1:

Event Type:    Error
Event Source:    MIIServer
Event Category:    Server
Event ID:    6801
Date:        15.09.2009
Time:        10:14:02
User:        N/A
Computer:    ILMSERVER
Description:
The extensible extension returned an unsupported error in MIIS.
The stack trace is:

“Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ExtensionException:
**** ERROR ****

ExternalEmailAddress is mandatory on MailUser.

**** END ERROR ****

**** ERROR ****

The mail [...]

WordPress Worm

There’s a worm about that attacks blogs via subscriber accounts. I’ve noticed a few recent registrations without any subsequent comment – and really the only reason to register on my blog is to comment – so I did think this odd. For security I have deleted all recent accounts that registered and did not comment. [...]