Is enabling SMB Signing on your NetApp a non-disruptive change?

We received the following alert from our ActiveIQ Unified Management Appliance (and a similiar one in ActiveIQ / AutoSupport): Alert from Active IQ Unified Manager: Advisory ID: NTAP-20160412-0001 You can find more details here: https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20160412-0001/ After reviewing it, fixing it seemed like a straight forward change but I wanted to know, is enabling SMB signing … Read more

How to remove the NetApp Host Utilities hotfix check

  Update 2018-10-18 – Check out this comment. Looks like a much easier method than my MSI editing one.   Sick of the hotfix requirements for NetApp Host Utilities? Me to. On a test/dev server I have I’ve been experimenting with Veeam, iSCSI, ReFS and Server 2016. I wanted to run the NetApp Host Utilities … Read more

Single Mailbox Recovery can’t connect to Exchange

Our AD structure contains three domains, one root domain (int.mydom.com) and two sub-domains, one for servers/services (it.int.mydom.com) and one for user accounts (users.int.mydom.com). int.mydom.com users.int.mydom.com (Users live here) it.int.mydom.com (Privileged IT accounts and Exchange live here) We are running into problems with NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery where it is unable to connect to the target … Read more

NetApp SnapManager for Exchange failing with VSS_E_WRITERERROR_RETRYABLE

Running into a problem with Exchange 2010, a FAS2240-4 and SnapManager for Exchange 7.1 where backups would randomly fail every now and then started failing consistently. Our DFM server would send us an e-mail when the failure occurred that looked like this: CLIENT APP ERROR Backup: SME Version 7.1: (111) on dora02 at Sun Sep … Read more

NetApp SnapManager for Exchange – Error Code: 0xc004146f

We use SnapManager for Exchange and NetApp Single Mailbox Recovery to backup our Exchange 2010 environment. We’ve noticed that randomly our backups will fail with a verification error. The backups are still good and the failure usually happens 2-3 times in a row and then doesn’t happen again for a month. NetApp has a KB … Read more