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Understanding Exchange Server 2007 Server Roles

Exchange 2007 introduces a new Exchange term: “Server Role”. Server role is a logical concept used to organize Exchange 2007 services and features across one or more servers. While Exchange 2003 provided primitive server roles called BackEnd server and FrontEnd server, Exchange 2007 has more granular divisions.

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Windows Software Probe on Virtual Machines

N-Able does not support the Windows Software Probe in a virutal machine.  This is due to potential problems in writing/reading to the virtual disk.

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Misconfigured Status for WMI Services

If N-Able is reporting Misconfigured for WMI services (Active Directory, Exchange Services, etc.) with a similar error message to:

201 NAWMIConnection::QueryMethod: Invalid class name. Machine name: 172.17.232.10. Namespace: root\cimv2. WQL string: Select LDAPBindTime, LDAPSuccessfulBindsPersec, LDAPWritesPersec, LDAPUDPoperationsPersec, LDAPActiveThreads, LDAPClientSessions, DRAInboundObjectUpdatesRemaininginPacket, DRAPendingReplicationSynchronizations from Win32_PerfRawData_NTDS_NTDS. Error code = 0×80041010.

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Probe Reports Log Analysis (Appended) Failure

For the nagent.log and the first netdisco.log files, If you click on the status details you can see that the file size is the part of the service that is failing. The failure threshold is 20KB. Since the logs are stored until they reach 5MB, and then rotated, this threshold should be changed to 6-7MB.

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Password Recovery on Cisco VPN 3000 Concentrator

This document describes the password recovery procedure for the following Cisco Virtual Private Network (VPN) products running version 2.5.1 or later.

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