Mac Outlook 2011 clients getting bad password prompt in every 15 to 20 minutes

I worked with one of the client last week, they had one strange issue with all of there Mac 2011 outlook clients.

As per the client Outlook 2011 started getting the prompt since last few days and prior to this they were working fine.

They had only three Mac Clients and the same mailbox was working fine when using Outlook 2007 and OWA without any issues.

Environment:
Windows Server 2008 SP2
Exchange Server 2007 SP2 with latest Rollup Updates.

We recreated the profile and it worked for around 30 minutes and failed again with the error above error message.
As Outlook and OWA was working fine correctly i didn't thought of that it could be anything else. Moved the mailbox into another Mailbox Database and checked the issue, and guess what it worked fine for another 30 minute and got the same popup again.
If i click on No and reopen the client than it works fine for sometime and give the same error message.
We had total three outlook 2011 clients on Mac and rest of them were using Outlook 2007.

Removed the EWS VirtualDirectory and recreated the EWS VirtualDirectory New-WebServicesVirtualDirectory and the issue got resolved.

Cheers,
-Gulab

Exchange 2007: Setup.com /PrepareSchema failing with error Code 8245: 'Schema update failed: An attribute with the same link identifier already exists'



In Adsiedit.msc follow the below mentioned path and provide the values as defined:

Schema Container -> CN= Schema ->Right Click -> New Object -> attributeschema -> Next
# For 'CN=ms-Exch-Mobile-Mailbox-Policy-Link'

Attribute Value:
cn 'CN=ms-Exch-Mobile-Mailbox-Policy-Link'
oMSyntax 127
lDAPDisplayName msExchMobileMailboxPolicyLink
isSingleValued TRUE
attributeSyntax 2.5.5.1
attributeID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.102.50668

# Finish

# for 'CN=ms-Exch-Mobile-Mailbox-Policy-BL'

Attribute Value
cn 'CN=ms-Exch-Mobile-Mailbox-Policy-BL'
oMSyntax 127
lDAPDisplayName msExchMobileMailboxPolicyBL
isSingleValued FALSE
attributeSyntax 2.5.5.1
attributeID 1.2.840.113556.1.4.7000.102.50726

# Finish
# After this run the Setup.com /PrepareSchema and it will complete successfully.

Cheers....

How to move mailboxes in bulk in Exchange 2010

First you need to create the .csv file having the alias or Displayname in the format and save it as batch2.csv

Alias
hman
gmal
iqbo

Then we need to run the command from the Exchange Management Shell.

"Import-CSV "D:\Batch2.csv" | foreach {New-MoveRequest -Identity $_.alias -TargetDatabase DB01}"

Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011

I woke up this morning after working with client almost till 3.30 AM. Logged in to my Skype to see if there is any message left by clients, didn't got any that means everything is going great.

Checked my email and got one email from Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011. Guess what, I Just got awarded by Microsoft Community Contributor Award 2011.

Now i feel one step closer to become MVP, 6  month from now, i would like to see "MVP" tag after my name :)



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