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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 ]