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Problem: When Veeam backup job is running for a SQL server VM and the "application aware processing" is activated on the job Veeam is not capable of using the VSS Writers to backup the databases. Instead, Veeam will proceed with a full backup. The disadvantage is when you need to restore backups in crash-consistent state, you won't be able to recover just the application items (databases, mailboxes, AD objects, etc...), you'll have to do a full restore or just OS files but no application objects recovers. Notes: Veeam even has a KB article for the issue. https://www.veeam.com/kb2095 Most of the time, it looks like it's a database naming issue. If your database names contains spaces in them, Veeam is not able to use the SQL VSS Writers. I strongly suggest that you go trough that article before trying the solution found here. However, in my case, none of the solutions worked from veeam's article. Solution: I had to login to my SQL server and under...

Recently, one of my users lost all his auto-complete list from his mailbox! For me, this is no big deal as I barely send emails but for our employees who sends / receives hundreds of emails per day, it's a pretty big deal and a very practical feature to have. Outlook will create a little database of the email addresses that you send or receive emails from into a file generically called "Auto-Complete". In the previous versions of the Microsoft Office suite, this file was the famous "NK2" file.

To get access to a specific mailbox with all permissions use the following command in “Exchange Management Shell” Get-Mailbox username | Add-ADPermission –user username –AccessRights GenericAll To get access to a specific Exchange Mailbox database and all of the mailboxes that this database contains, use the following command in “Exchange Management Shell” Get-MailboxDatabase –identity “ mailbox database name ” | Add-Permission –user username –AccessRights GenericAll Done!