Exchange 2003

SBS 2003 and OWA

We had another site with OWA having issues and I am wondering if this was a problem with maybe a update that came down or was actually just something that came up. But they was getting the 500 error and Site busy from the outside when OWA was tried to go to. What they ended up doing was running this

We had to sync IUSR and IWAM

Used this piece of flotsam

We used the /inetpub/AdminScripts for this.

The syntax we used:

cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/anonymoususerpass “f00″

cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/anonymoususerpass (reports correct password)

cscript adsutil.vbs set w3svc/wamuserpass “f00″

cscript adsutil.vbs get w3svc/wamuserpass (reports correct password)

To sync the passwords with IIS we used:

cscript.exe synciwam.vbs -v

2^nd time through it worked

Til later just Roger

Exchange 2003 Server SP 2 Install Error

One of our techs had a Exchange 2003 SP2 server that the OWA quit working and I suggested that he do  a Exchange 2003 reinstall. That usually clears up any of these quirky Exchange 2003 problems if you can’t get it correct and of course when he went to install SP2 got the “there is an earlier version of the exchange intelligent message filter installed” So I had this fix for a SBS 2003 Server which it is still Exchange 2003 and this allowed him to get SP 2 installed. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/935916

He got this all done and the OWA would come up but with a 500 error inside and from the outside I would get a “The requested resource is in use.” Error so I did a quick search and found this and this corrected the problem for him regsvr32 %windir%/system32/vbscript.dll life was good and now he has his weekend back.

Til Later just Roger