If you have read my earlier blogs about the RNS 510 then you may know I have been working on creating custom startup logo’s for some time.

For some time now I know how the images are encoded and decoded between Windows bitmap and the native RNS 510 image format.

Recently I identified the checksums in the image data, and the differing parameters for the Seat, Skoda and VW versions of the RNS 510 firmware.

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In part 1 we saw that a corrupted rule made the Mailbox Move fail.

I wanted to know if I had really a corrupted mailbox or maybe even corruption in the store or another problem.

So in this part I will describe how to break down the Mailbox Move Log.

First go to the Failed Move Request and select Properties:

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I am currently working on a migration project from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.

Most Exchange migration projects use Mailbox Moves to move the mailbox data to the new Exchange environment.

But there are some things I observed during Mailbox Moves (from Exchange 2003 to 2010) that are worth mentioning.

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Work is in progress.

Today I was asked to assist in troubleshooting an Oracle Client (10g) installation. The installation halted very quickly with a java.lang.NullPointerException:

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I didn’t notice it before but the new RNS 510 firmware (3810/3814/3816/3818) has a new startup logo for the Volkswagen firmwares:

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I am currently creating a PowerShell script that creates a user with all needed Active Directory attributes, Exchange mailbox, (TS) Home- and Profile directories and so on.

In such a script you can easily get failures because of Active Directory replication.

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Function below can be used to check if a given Username exists in Active Directory:

I wrote earlier about the startup logo’s on the Volkswagen RNS 510 navigation.

Today I can finally tell you that I succeeded!
I changed the startup logo to the logo from the MFD2 DVD as you can seen on this picture:

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The Volkswagen RNS 315 Navigation has a builtin Bluetooth carkit which is disabled by default. I am not sure why, I presume this is done because VW also sells carkits that integrate into the MFD.

The builtin carkit can be enabled using VCDS like this:

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