on the job

When users were sending emails to a contact group, it would bounce immediately with the following error message:

From: System Administrator
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2017 3:14 PM
Subject: Undeliverable: Email subject

'Recipient 2' on 8/14/2017 3:14 PM
This message could not be sent. Try sending the message again later, or contact your network administrator. The client operation failed. Error is [0x80004005-0x80004005-0x000501].

The issue was the related to throttling settings, and the distribution list was over the 24-hour limit.

To fix the issue, you can create and apply a new throttling policy to the affected mailboxes:


New-ThrottlingPolicy -Name policyname -RecipientRateLimit Unlimited
Set-Mailbox -Identity username -ThrottlingPolicy policyname

Replace ‘username’, ‘policyname’, and ‘Unlimited’ with the desired names and values.

I needed to grant permissions to a non-administrative domain user to be able to start and stop services. The subinacl command can be used to grant these permissions:

subinacl /service \\ComputerName\ServiceName /grant=[Domain\]Username[=Access]

Here are the available ‘Access’ parameters:


F : Full Control
R : Generic Read
W : Generic Write
X : Generic eXecute
L : Read controL
Q : Query Service Configuration
S : Query Service Status
E : Enumerate Dependent Services
C : Service Change Configuration
T : Start Service
O : Stop Service
P : Pause/Continue Service
I : Interrogate Service
U : Service User-Defined Control Comma

If you want to filter by computer model, first you’ll need to get the computer model name by running the ‘wmic‘ command in a DOS prompt, and then typing: ‘CSProduct Get Name‘. That should return something similar to this:


C:\Users\seppler>wmic
wmic:root\cli>CSProduct Get Name
Name
HP EliteDesk 800 G1 USDT


Then, you’ll want to add a conditional Inject Drivers command, with the condition being a WMI query for:

SELECT * FROM Win32_ComputerSystem WHERE Model LIKE "%EliteDesk 800 G1%"

Replace the “EliteDesk 800 G1” string with whatever model you want to match. The percents on each side are a typical SQL wildcard, which is why I don’t have to include ‘HP’ or ‘USDT’.

When deploying a Windows 7 64-bit image from our deployment server (using Microsoft Deployment Toolkit, or MDT), we would run into an error message after the image had been applied to a workstation:

Windows could not parse or process the unattend answer file [C:\windows\Panther\unattend.xml] for pass [specialize]. A component or setting specified in the answer file does not exist

It turned out that Internet Explorer 10 had been installed. To fix the issue, you need to remove the IEWelcomeMsg entry from the answer file (either by editing unattend.xml manually on the server for the task sequence, or using Windows System Image Manager (WSIM).

This post clued me into the issue.