"The name could not be resolved. The connection to MS Exchange server is unavailable, outlook must be online or connected to complete this action"

I experienced this issue when setting up new email account in Outlook 2007 with MS Exchange 2007. I've been searching from the internet for quite some time to solve this issue. I tried many recommended solutions from IT experts but those solutions didn't work. So isolate the issue and finally solved it.
Here's how I solved it.

Firstly,I tried to new "New Mailbox" for another user for the sake of testing. But when I'm done creating this new mailbox, there is an error message saying:

Summary: 1 items. 0 succeeded, 1 failed.

Elapsed time: 00:00:01


Administrator
Failed

Error:


An Exchange 2007 server on which an address list service is active cannot be found.

Management Shell command attempted:


Enable-Mailbox -Identity:'TEST.dk/Users/Administrator' -Alias:'Administrator' -Database:'CN=Mailbox Database,CN=First Storage Group,CN=InformationStore,CN=TEST-NT-EXC2007,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=Demo,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=TEST,DC=dk'

Elapsed Time: 00:00:01

Checking the server's "Services", I found out that Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service is not started maybe due to unexpected shutdown of the server.

Here are the steps I went through:
1. In MS Exchange server, go to START-> RUN, then type services.msc.
2. Look for Microsoft Exchange System Attendant service then start it.
3. After that, I was able to create user account and finally connected to the Exchange server.

This solution worked for me, and I hope it will work for you as well, if not let me know.

Cheers!

How to Configure Cisco Router?

I've received  a lot of emails requesting me to show how to configure Cisco router. I will show here the steps on how to configure 3 routers connected to each other. There are so many simulators available in internet like Packet Tracer by Cisco, GNS3, Boson, etc. Now I will be using Packet Tracer from Cisco. This is a user friendly simulator. I have been using this since 2005 when I first started studying CCNA, and also used it during my CCNA certification review, it helps me a lot. Then when I took CCNP exam, I both used GNS3 and Cisco Packet Tracer.


From the diagram, our goal is for PC0 to access or have connection to PC2 using ip route.

 
Here we go:

@ Philippines

Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Router(config)#hostname Philippines
Philippines(config)#interface f0/0
Philippines(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Philippines(config-if)#no shutdown
Philippines(config-if)#interface s0/1/1
Philippines(config-if)#ip address 192.168.3.1 255.255.255.252
Philippines(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Philippines(config-if)#no shutdown
Philippines(config-if)#exit
Philippines(config)#ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.2
Philippines(config)#ip route 192.168.9.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.2
Philippines#copy running-config startup-config


@USA
Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Router(config)#hostname USA
USA(config)#interface f0/0
USA(config-if)#ip address 192.168.5.1 255.255.255.0
USA(config-if)#no shutdown
USA(config-if)#interface s0/1/0
USA(config-if)#ip address 192.168.3.2 255.255.255.252
USA(config-if)#no shutdown
USA(config-if)#interface s0/1/1
USA(config-if)#ip address 192.168.7.1 255.255.255.252
USA(config-if)#no shutdown
USA(config-if)#exit
USA(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.3.1
USA(config)#ip route 192.168.9.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.7.2
USA#copy running-config startup-config


@Singapore
Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Router(config)#hostname Singapore
Singapore(config)#interface f0/0
Singapore(config-if)#ip address 192.168.9.1 255.255.255.0
Singapore(config-if)#no shutdown
Singapore(config-if)#interface s0/1/1
Singapore(config-if)#ip address 192.168.7.2 255.255.255.252
Singapore(config-if)#clock rate 64000
Singapore(config-if)#no shutdown
Singapore(config-if)#exit
Singapore(config)#ip route 192.168.5.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.7.1
Singapore(config)#ip route 192.168.1.0 255.255.255.0 192.168.7.1
Singapore#copy running-config startup-config