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Hmmm. That's interesting. The push here, is to have one email address for both and the mailboxes mirrored. Which I think is do-able but probably a lot of work.

Apologies if this has been covered in other posts, it it has please direct me to em! We are testing O365/GaFE. It looks like the word from on high will be that we have to have both. Some teachers love GaFE. Some love Microsoft. That's just the way it is. From what I understand, creating users in both sysytems by syncing to AD isn't an issue. Students and staff will have one username / password for both. Managing documents across the two systems will be up to individuals but I presume most tutors will specify whether they want students to use one or the other for their lesson. Email is where I start to scratch my head. Currently we have an onsite Exchange server. We want to ditch this and migrate all mailboxes to the cloud. In an ideal world the O365 & GAfE mail accounts would mirror each other, so you could use either or both. I've seen a video about a school who did this but they paid an IT company to set it up for them. One of My concerns (other than 'how do I do this!') would be : if I can send an email from two different accounts, but it always looks like it originated from the same address, would it trigger some spam filters to block emails from my domain address. Right now I'm just gathering info. If anyone is using O365 & GAfE in a single school I'd be reallt interested to know how you are set up.

OK, for anyone following this : our network is all virtual except for a couple of servers. This was all set up a third party. The 2008 DC with the issue is NOT a VM. I didn't realise that this was the FSMO server... but I guess it makes sense in terms of our VM cluster going bellyup. The other tin server is a 2012 box. I've promoted this to a DC and it doesn't have the GPM problem because, as said in previous post, the issue is with server 2008 / 2008r2 being able to have non compatible ADMX templates. I don't know why this has happened. The only thing I can think of is I updated our Exchange 2010 server to the latest service pack / rollups and that might have done it. In fact I'm sure that that's the case. Now I just need to shift the FSMO role over to the Server 2012 box... also all the VM's are pointing at the 2008 to sync their clocks...

OK... On closer investigation I think I'm seeing the problem. The main DC is a 2008 R2 machine. The second DC (with the group policy issues) is a server 2008 machine According to this article ( Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 and the Group Policy Central Store - Ask the Directory Services Team - Site Home - TechNet Blogs ) There could be an ADMX compatibility issue... I've had these two servers set up like this for years (they were set up by a third party) I don't understand why I'm only starting to see issues now...

Recently I have noticed some strange behaviour on the network that seems to be group policy related. I have two domain controllers. I've checked the GPO's on the main DC and they appear to be fine. On the second DC, when I look the settings of a GPO all the administrative template settings are in an error state: "An error has occurred while collecting data for an administrative template" Expected one of the following possible element(s), , , , , , , , but found instead. File \\myDC.domain.internal\sysvol\cloughhall.internal\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\en-US\terminalserver-Server.adml, line 198, column 60 Encountered an unknown error while parsing (error = 0x87400001): -2025848831 (0x87400001) File \\myDC.domain.internal.internal\sysvol\cloughhall.internal\Policies\PolicyDefinitions\terminalserver-Server.admx, line 9, column 41 I can create a new group policy but if I try and edit it I get the same error message.... Does anyone have any ideas of how to resole this?

I think we may go down that path as well. How hard is it to manage the two systems, side by side? Have you had many issues/hickups? I'm anticipating that we will move our email to one or the other & get rid of our Exchange server If we move our email to O365, staff and students would have two email addresses - the school email address @ourschool.co.uk and the Google address... they both can't use the same address? Can we use the AD sync tools for both products at the same time?

Ha! I don't know why I didn't think of that. Renamed the bundle.crt file that I had made for the Ubuntu box & uploaded to cPanel - SUCCESS! Cheers

Hi, I've already tried it (converted the PFX to a PEM) , either way (using the website converter or OpenSSL on the Ubuntu box) I still get the same error message. Like I say, pretty sure the PFX isn't corrupted, I installed it on my Exchange server without issue & I think I had to use OpenSSL to extract bits from it initially so that I could install the cert on Ubuntu Would the fact that it's a SAN complicate matters?

Our website sits on an in house Ubuntu box. We are in the process of moving it off site. We have an SSL (SAN) cert that we paid for & I want to see if I can migrate it to the new off site server. The new server gives me a cPanel frontend. My SSL cert was originally issued as a PFX file. If I use OpenSSl to produce a CRT file or a PEM file & try to upload to the new server I get this error message "ERROR: The system could not save certificate #1 because of an error: The ASN.1 data is corrupt. Its header indicates a length of 67 bytes, but its content is 1,334 bytes long. No valid certificate provided" I doubt that the PFX is corrupted... Am I trying to do the impossible?

Ha! I can't believe how dense I've been. This isn't an issue. It's just the way the clipboard works. What a dummy!

Thanks for the reply, after some investigation it turns out that the behaviour exists in the source files! I can do everything else (create files , edit , move files etc) I just cant copy/delete/paste back into the original location .... it's not the kind of thing you do a lot of so it's probably been like this for years and no one has noticed!! The source machines are Server 2003 & this behaviour exists on ALL files , even those in non shared / networked areas... Oh well, it's not an xcopy / robocopy issue anyway!

Hmmmm.... If I select one file from the target & copy it using xcopy with no switches I still have the same issue : * copy thefile * delete it * attempt to paste it back, I get this message "ITEM NOT FOUND : Could not find this item, This is no longer located in \\server\path , verify the items location and try again" The path it references is the correct one... Note : I can paste it anywhere outside of the destination folder. without any problems Also... If I open the properties of the file, disable inheritance, set myself as the owner & user with full control, I STILL have the behaviour above but now I see a padlock on the file icon... I need to sort this out because I've got 400GB+ of files spread over two servers that need migrating!

I need to migrate large amounts of data from a Server 2003 box to a Server 2012 box. The data is mainly student areas, so I need to migrate the data with ACL's intact. I'm having a number of issues: If I run : robocopy \\source\ C:\DEST\ *.* /mir /sec It wont copy certain folders (my music, my pictures, my videos) - Access denied (we have hundreds of users so any fix can't be manual - I'm pretty sure it's to do with ownsership) If I run : robocopy \\source\ C:\DEST\ /E /V /ZB /MT:128 /R:1 /W:1 /LOG:"C:\BKUP2\THE LOG FILE.log" /NP /TEE It copies all the files without ACL's And then I run : robocopy \\source\ C:\DEST\ *.* /mir /secfix /sec It adds the ACL's back in ... it doesn't add the original ACL 's to the problem folders but I think it 'fixes' them, the ownership changes but users should still be able to access them What's more perturbing is; however I migrate the data. Once it's done If I : * copy a random file * delete it * attempt to paste it ANYWHERE within the migrated folders, I get this message "ITEM NOT FOUND : Could not find this item, This is no longer located in \\server\path , verify the items location and try again" The path it references is the correct one...

Oh, that's interesting... how are you O365/GaFE users organising your user data? What about backups etc?

Just started having a play. Set up GaFE and O365 E1 sites & have started to add test users. Hit my first snag with GaFE, verified my domain (myschool.sch.uk) & initially had trouble because the test users were given a @myschool.sch.uk email address - EEK! Put in a support request and was quite surprized when a Google tech person rang me and talked me through setting up an alias for emails / testing. Must have been on the phone for thirty minutes, quality tech support. Looking at O365, first problem is syncing OneDrive with staff / student areas... dunno if the same issue exists for GaFe but this is (on first glance) a biggie - we don't really want all our data to be only in the cloud. Networked home drives mean people can keep working if the internet falls over & we have total control over backups/restoring files and archiving data... Anyone managed to work round this? Am I being too 'old school'?

This might sound like a really daft question but... what email spam /malware protection does GAFe have? One of the things about O365 E1 (Free version) is that Exchange Online Protection is bundled with it

Hi, The error was: "Couldn't remove product with code 6574fdc2-40fc-405a-9554-22d1ce15686b. Fatal error during installation. Error code is 1603" To fix it I ran : MsiExec.exe /X {6574fdc2-40fc-405a-9554-22d1ce15686b} (to remove the Search Indexer) Rebooted the machine & installed the SP , then installed the latest roll up. All went surprisingly well!

Thanks . I managed to sort it in the end, took me slightly longer than expected but wasn't that big a headache.

Eek. And then two minutes later I find this suggestion: 1. Run this from a command prompt: MsiExec.exe /X {6574fdc2-40fc-405a-9554-22d1ce15686b} to remove the Search Indexer 2. Reboot 3. Try running the Service pack again I had actually run MsiExec.exe /X {6574fdc2-40fc-405a-9554-22d1ce15686b} but I hadn't rebooted the machine...

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade Exchange 2010 SP1 to SP3, it fails throwing this error: "Couldn't remove product with code 6574fdc2-40fc-405a-9554-22d1ce15686b. Fatal error during installation. Error code is 1603" I've had a look on the web and not read anything conclusive... Anyone else experienced this? It's nothing to do with SP3 specifically... some people got the same error installing SP1

We currently don't use any Google apps. How easy is it to set up a trial group and what might the pitfalls be? We have an ICT teacher who would like to start using Classroom with one class - I know I can sync AD/Google, but can I restrict google login to a certain OU/Users? Anyone started off in in similar fashion? what were the problems you encountered?

We are also looking into Google Apps / Classroom... how did people manage their roll outs? Did you start with a target / test group first? Did you buy in training? what 'humps' did you have to overcome?

Just to finish things off, if anyone has been following this: In Exchange I deleted the proxy SMTP addresses on Brian's account & added them to Carol's account & made [email protected] the primary address This enabled her to receive / send emails sent using the [email protected] address - from external email accounts only I deleted Brian's account in AD and added his x500 / LegacyExchangeDN address a custom proxy address on Carol's account I can now send an email an internal account to [email protected] and it goes through to Carol... except where the old account info is cached in OWA/Outlook! We use Exchange 2010 , OWA (99% of our users use OWA) & Outlook 2007... looks like the way to clear the cache in OWA for all users is to download Exchange Web Services Managed API 1.2 & run a script Anyway - it's all looking good, thanks everyone for help and suggestions

Ah... It seems to be working for external addresses... I probably can disable the [email protected] mailbox now...

OK, I've looked Brian's mailbox and deleted his [email protected] address I've gone into Carol's mailbox properties and added the [email protected] and made it the primary address Exchange accepts this and doesn't throw any errors - however, emails sent to [email protected] don't arrive & when Carol sends an email it originates from Carol ... Is this because Exchange doesn't update straight away? I've run the Exchange maintenance cycle and this hasn't affected it. Brian's email box hasn't been disabled because people still send emails to it... In effect Carol is now doing two jobs.