Windows

After completing a VMWare ESXi 4 restore of an SBS 2003 server I discovered that one user could not receive any emails from internally or externally. They all backed up in the 'Local delivery' queue that you can see in the Exchange System Manager. The user could however send mails and receive junk oddly.

I read that this was down to the Mailbox Store being corrupted which I really did not want to have to restore. It turns out just that mailbox was corrupted in some way so that would have been a lot of extra work for one mailbox.

You're not really supposed to be able to delete mailboxes and re-create them in SBS as its tightly woven into creating new users but this was my only option. Here's how to delete the users mailbox, recreate it and hopefully get mails flowing again as it worked for me!

I had a lot of trouble trying to browse UDF 2.5 when archiving documents off to Blu-ray discs. I was using the UDF 2.5 driver from Toshiba which everyone seemed to be using but if I tried to run an .exe off a BD-R it would instantly BSOD!

I've since found out that the free Nero InCD driver supports UDF 2.5 and also doesn't seem to cause a BSOD everytime I need to run a setup off BD-R!

Download it here...

http://www.nero.com/eng/tools-utilities.html

I was having some dreaded BSOD problems recently and managed to narrow my problem down to my USB device by doing the following so hopefully this will be useful for you too!

I didn't want to bother with using the command line so this method gives you a quick idea of the problem and you only need to install one tool.