Google cloud printing. http://goo.gl/2kKz8
A simple way is to use Performance Monitor. Hook to MSExchange OWA and the add current user. It doesn’t tell you who, but it will at least give you a count. In my example I have the Exchange tools loaded on my desktop so within Performance Monitor on that remote machine I was able to … Continue reading
A grueling couple of days of running the MS Exchange 2010 Jetstress tool and watching it fail for the read latency tests. This was for 4 mailbox servers and 12 databases with one passive copy in the DAG. The active copy disk lives on an EMC CX4 SAN and the passive lives on an EMC … Continue reading
First, install an OCS 2007 R2 monitoring server, on a seperate server from the OCS pool. Once that is setup using the MS directions in the link at the beginning of this post. Create a new SQL View on the LcsCDR database with the following code below. USE [LcsCDR] SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER … Continue reading
Bing has released a web interface to all the Powershell cmdlets, very cool, searchable and examples on how to use each cmdlet. http://www.bing.com/visualsearch?g=powershell_cmdlets&FORM=SGEWEB&qpvt=powershell#r=53
Go here for an excellent write up with screenshots on deploying OCS 2007 R2 into a hyper-v lab environment. http://tinyurl.com/7yf9fy I got OCS up and running into a production enviornment and love it, next up is connecting to the P BX.
Yup, jumped on the twitter thing. Good way to post and get information. Stop by and follow.
Virtualization EcoShell For those of you who manage a VMware environment this FREE tool is a must. It’s all written on top of Microsoft’s PowerShell and is eventually going to be built right into PowerGUI. Very very cool. Download here
This is too cool. http://powershelltools.com/#downloads
PowerShell 2.0 CTP 3 still doesn’t have native Active Directory cmdlets. You can still get into AD and do stuff, but have to use the native ADSI calls. The FREE Quest AD tools just adds a snapin of cmdlets that you can use to do AD stuff. Very easy to build into your scripts for … Continue reading
In order to run the ISA 2006 desktop firewall client you need to configure your ISA Proxy to be a dual-legged network. Fun fun proxy stuff.
I needed to do some testing with Exchange 2003 using a Front-End / Back-End setup. I found this step-by-step article with screenshots on how to setup the Windows clustering part. Check it out, it works great. I added some shared storage and was able to successfully fail one node over to the other and vice … Continue reading
So I needed to build an ISA lab to test the firewall client so that I can start controlling outbound FTP through AD groups. Rather than doing this in PROD I decided to build this in a VMware Workstation environment. This link below is a great resource and did the job. Click here.
This is a free CD with video’s on OS deployment. Free only until May 16th. http://www.deploymentcd.com/ Some of the items covered are. – Installing the deployment server for MDT 2008 Lite Touch – Installing the deployment server for SCCM 2007 (Zero Touch) – Creating universal reference images using Lite Touch – Creating universal reference images … Continue reading
It’s been a while since I posted anything here, sorry ’bout that. I thought I would submit this quick post as it’s been driving me crazy for sometime now. If you are running a Windows DFS environment and all seems well except on a few machines, check to see if you have VMware Workstation 6.x … Continue reading
http://www.ubuntupocketguide.com/download.html
Have you ever wanted to control your BlackBerry device by talking to it. Let’s say you want to add a new task. All you have to do is say “New Task” get milk. After that you will now have a new task labeled get milk. Very cool and FREE. http://www.vlingo.com/index.jsp
http://mobile.wikipedia.com Tried this out on my BlackBerry and it looks very clean.
http://lifehacker.com/5093536/gmail-updates-its-look-adds-themes
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