Mike F Robbins

Open Exchange Management Shell and execute the New-Mailbox cmdlet using the following example as a template:

New-Mailbox -Alias "MySharedMailbox" -Name "My Shared Mailbox" -Database "MAIL1\First Storage Group\Mailbox Database" -OrganizationalUnit "mikefrobbins.demo/My OU/Users/Mailbox" -Shared -UserPrincipalName "mysharedmailbox@mikefrobbins.demo"

The following cmdlet assigns full access for the mailbox to a group in Active Directory named “My Shared Mailbox Admins” which needs to exist in AD prior to executing this command:

Get-Mailbox -Identity "My Shared Mailbox" | Add-MailboxPermission -User "My Shared Mailbox Admins" -AccessRights "FullAccess"

This cmdlet allows members of the “My Shared Mailbox Admins” group in Active Directory to be able to send email from the “mysharedmailbox@mikefrobbins.demo” email account:

Get-Mailbox -Identity "My Shared Mailbox" | Add-ADPermission -User "My Shared Mailbox Admins" -AccessRights: ReadProperty, WriteProperty -Properties "Personal Information" -ExtendedRights "Send-As"

Once these steps are completed, any AD user who is added to the “My Shared Mailbox Admins” group in AD will be able to open the “mysharedmailbox” and send email from this account.

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Problem:
You receive an error Virtual Disk Manager “The RPC server is unavailable” when attempting to remotely manage Hyper-V Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 Core Installation:

Solution:
Run the following command on the client and on the server:

netsh advfirewall firewall set rule group="Remote Volume Management" new enable=yes

You have the option of using the Server Configuration menu on the server side if your using Hyper-V Server 2008. Select option 4, Configure Remote Management:

Select option 1, Allow MMC Remote Management:

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Problem:
You’ve closed the Hyper-V Server 2008 R2 Server Configuration menu and need to re-open it:

Solution:
The command to re-open this window has changed with the R2 release. The new command is sconfig.cmd, with the non-R2 version, the command was hvconfig.cmd. Start Windows Task Manager by pressing Ctrl & Shift & Esc. Click File>New Task:

Type cmd.exe /k C:\Windows\system32\sconfig.cmd and click ok:

You now have a new Server Configuration window:

Simply entering sconfig.cmd in the command prompt window will work, but you’ll lose your command prompt window so it is a less than desirable solution.

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