Those Little Everyday IT Issues

The windows servers (vm) has gone so slow and were stuck at "Please wait for the user profile service" for few minutes whenever a user logs in. After logging in the response time for any execution is very slow. Then I tried to find out the root cause for this issue. Few scenarios were possible that could have caused the issue at that time. i) Introduction of NAP recently for the Wireless Project ii) A hardisk failure of the Sun Storage 7310 hosting the virtual machines (still working on ..) When I check the event viewers of those affected servers, I could see a lot of Errors in it (especially event id 10016). Because of the introduction of NAP for the wireless authentication, this error has been thrown in those servers whose "Network Access Protection Agent" services has not been started. I changed them to Automatic startup type and started the services in all the servers. I recollect seeing those error events still which was only solved once I started the ...

Click Start , type regedit in the Start Search box, and then click regedit in the Programs list. If you are prompted for an administrator password or for confirmation, type your password, or click Continue .Locate and then click the following registry subkey: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Parameters\Interfaces\{GUID} In this registry path, click the (GUID) subkey that corresponds to the network adapter that is connected to the network. On the Edit menu, point to New , and then click DWORD (32-bit) Value . In the New Value #1 box, type DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle , and then press ENTER.Right-click DhcpConnEnableBcastFlagToggle , and then click Modify . In the Value data box, type 1 , and then click OK . Close Registry Editor. Disable The Internet Protocol Version 6 (TCP/IPv6)  by unchecking it from the network properties if it is checked. Restart the system and that did the trick for me.

It is recommended that the ad and exchange account must be disabled only after disabling the mailbox in Enterprise Vault. Once the user is disabled, delete it from the "Provisional Group" as shown in the picture below. And run the "Provisioning Task" After the Account has been disabled and deleted, in order for Enterprise Vault to access archives correctly, it needs a mailbox to bill the usage to. When adding permissions to an archive, EV checks the user accounts against Active Directory (AD). If the AD account used for billing is no longer active, EV return the error "Please enter an existing Windows NT account name." Hence we bill it to the common user "evbilling" We need to change the automatically set permission and hence we follow the step in this link After the automatically set permission has been removed, we granted "evadmin" user full permission to control the archived items. Delete the user fro...