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So, you’re transitioning your Exchange 2003 environment to an Office 365 environment and desperately want to drop kick your Exchange 2003 server out the door. After migrating everyone’s email, you open ESM, delete all of the mailboxes and start to uninstall Exchange. … [ Continue reading ]
Boot from VHD is a great technology that enables you to host multiple self-contained operating systems on a single hard drive. Similar to dual-booting, but you don’t have to worry about installing applications over each other or overwriting program file updates because your secondary OS is fully contained within a single virtual hard disk file. … [ Continue reading ]
For any of you that use Postini for email services, setting up reinjection for the receive connectors in Exchange 2007 is a lot more work than allowing connection and relay through a vSMTP server in Exchange 2003.
Exchange 2007 has a lot of great features, such as the uber-powerful Exchange Management Shell.… [ Continue reading ]
LDIFDE is an oldie-but-goodie tool for finding specific information in Active Directory. If you know the name of the attribute that contains the data you’re looking for, you can construct a pretty powerful query.
For example, you can search for all computers in the Active Directory domain mydomain.com:… [ Continue reading ]
We have a customer with an IIS 6.0 application that crashes randomly–either the Application Pool worker process runs the server out of memory or hangs.
If you have a need to recycle the Application Pool between scheduled maintenance intervals, there are a couple of available solutions.… [ Continue reading ]
I recently found myself in a spot where I needed to troubleshoot a delegate issue–a user was set as a delegate but no longer was with the company and didn’t have a mailbox anymore, so periodic NDRs were being generated for mail destined for the delegate.… [ Continue reading ]
From time to time, many administrators have found themselves faced with a corrupt WMI repository. Here’s a quick fix. Copy/paste into a .bat file and run on the affected computer.
NET STOP WINMGMT /y RD /S /Q C:\Windows\system32\wbem\Repository %windir%\system32\rundll32 wbemupgd,UpgradeRepository FOR %%i in (%windir%\system32\wbem\*.dll)… [ Continue reading ]
Since a lot of folks (myself included) are still running a lot of Exchange 2003 in the enterprise, I though I would post a bit about setting the track alignment properly in various kinds of storage.
According to Microsoft, when creating disk partitions, the “Disk Management” MMC snap-in mis-aligns the partition with the underlying physical disk.… [ Continue reading ]