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New in our Tools section: Dirty Port Testing Tool, a tiny utility to open a TCP listener and connect to it from the same UI, simple and fast. Developed in about one hour after being increasingly frustrated with having to test dozens of ports and hosts in multiple firewall setups in a lab environment…

Out of the ashes of our pitiful online version of the WinUAE help file rises a new version, courtesy of HelpNDoc. You will have to bear the advertisement at the bottom of each page, but you’ll get a fully functional index and a search function. Well worth the trade, so go and check it out!

All WinUAE fans know the drill by now: the new version is now out, tailored towards WinUAE 2.4, thanks to Peter yet again! Feel free to grab the file in the downloads section or access the online version.

Miracles do happen. No, really. After almost 4 years, a new major release of NetInventory is now available! And it has been an eventful time: 160000 lines of code have been changed. 2 new tools have joined the package to round out the functionality. Dozens of bugs have been fixed along with a almost complete rewrite in C#. The suite is now licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY-ND license.
Some of the previously unreleased work has been on and off development since as far back as 2006. As always, we are open to comments and suggestions for improvement!

Find further details and the download link at the NetInventory page. We hope you find these tools useful, as we do in our company network.

This release is in memory of a man, without whom none of this would exist and the world does not seem the same anymore.

Time for a fresh version of your favorite help file! Quite a few pages have been updated to meet today’s requirements, and outdated or irrelevant information has been removed, courtesy of Aleksander Chyliński. As always, the help also includes information about the latest WinUAE. Download the file for on-line help in the emulator itself or check out the online version in your browser!

The latest help file is available for download, and the online version is up to date as well.

Sporting only minor changes this time around, the latest help file is up for grabs in the downloads section.

Peter has been working on updating the WinUAE Help File – feel free to download the result of his work at our WinUAE section or check the online version.

Our first release to be built with the newly released Visual Studio 2010, this version fixes an annoying bug: searching several times and using the clear button to empty the resulting list caused the same files to be found multiple times. On a more technical side, WiX is now used as installer toolkit, replacing VDProject. In addition, some cosmetic changes have been made. The file is available in the Misc section.

Another Exchange specific issue: we had a problem after migrating to Exchange 2010 and then uninstalling Exchange 2003, eventhough replicas of public folders were moved to the new server. Errors would show in the Exchange System Manager, and the following message would occur:
MapiExceptionADPropertyError: Unable to mount database. (hr=0×80004005, ec=2418)

There is a excellent post on TechNet Forums about this topic. However, it does not include information for Exchange 2010, and mentions to restart the Information Store, when restarting the System Attendant is sufficient. Corrected instructions below.

Open ADSI Edit, connect to a Domain Controller, change the context to Configuration.

Create the Folder Hierarchies under the Exchange Administrative Group

1. Navigate to Configuration ⇒ Services ⇒ Microsoft Exchange ⇒ <Exchange Organization> ⇒ Administrative Groups
2. Right click on <Exchange Administrative Group> and select New Object
3. Select msExchPublicFolderTreeContainer as class and click Next
4. Enter the following as value: Folder Hierarchies, click Next, Finish

Create the Public Folders Tree Object

1. Right click Folder Hierarchies and select New Object
2. Select msExchPFTree as class, click Next
3. Enter the following as value: Public Folders, click Next
4. Click on More Attributes button, select msExchPFTreeType and set the value to 1
5. Click OK, Finish

Populate the msExchOwningPFTreeBL attribute object of the PF Store

1. Double click the newly created “Public Folders” object
2. Double click distinguishedName, copy the value to the clipboard, click Cancel
3. Exchange 2007: open properties of Configuration ⇒ Services ⇒ Microsoft Exchange ⇒ <Exchange Organization> ⇒ Administrative Groups ⇒ <Exchange 2007 Administrative Group> ⇒ Servers ⇒ <Affected Exchange Server> ⇒ Information Store ⇒ <Storage Group> ⇒ <Public Folder Database>
4. Exchange 2010: open properties of Configuration ⇒ Services ⇒ Microsoft Exchange ⇒ <Exchange Organization> ⇒ Administrative Groups ⇒ <Exchange 2010 Administrative Group> ⇒ Databases ⇒ <Public Folder Database>
5. Double click the msExchOwningPFTree attribute, paste the value that was copied to the clipboard in step 2
6. Click OK twice

Try to mount the Store

1. Restart the Microsoft Exchange System Attendant Service
2. Open Exchange System Manager and try to mount the PF store