For a while I've been wrestling with getting SSL to work with the Blackboard Collab tools. This article outlines how to take your existing IIS cert you use for Blackboard and use it for the collab tools.
Here is a little file remover script I wrote for servers here. It takes either takes 2 arguments or can be run interactively. It looks in a directory specified and removes the files that are x days old. This is nice for servers that fill up with backup files or logs. This goes hand-in-hand with volume size monitoring, of course. Feel free to use/change or comment on the script. Enjoy!
In this age of virtualization I typically try to size a Windows system volume to a realistic size. That is, a size that will provide a good cushion, but not over allocating space. Occassionally, I do screw up and I need extend the volume. Now, one cannot resize a live system volume with diskpart, even if you have sufficient space on that disk. With additional data type volumes, one can add the space necessary to the LUN, run diskpart and extend the volume.
If anyone out there is looking for a good guide to removing Exchange 2003 from your Exchange org, this four part guide is it. Thanks to Neil Hobson for writing it!
Have you ever had a tough time finding where an email address exists in your Exchange Org. Often times this comes from have a forward on a mailbox or a contact set to an external address. If you run the following in your Exchange Management Shell, you should be able to find almost any address or portion of address in your org. I like to format the output too, so you can change the | format-table part to however you would like the output to read.
get-recipient -filter {emailaddresses -like "Pattern goes here"}|format-table name,recipienttype,emailaddresses
For the past couple of months, one Exchange Server 2007 problem has plagued me. I had tried to install update rollup 3 in our organization. It worked fine on the front end servers, but certain services failed to start on the back ends. The Mail Submission, Mailbox Assistants, Replication Service, Search Indexer, and Service Host services all failed to "start in a timely manner." At that point, I punted and uninstalled the update.
I wanted to alert you to a very critical Windows Patch out there that should be downloaded and installed immediately. There is exploit code in the wild and it is believed that a worm will be coming. Please take 5 minutes and protect your servers and personal/office computers. Thanks!
I ran into an issue where Outlook 2007 on Windows XP on Exchange 2007 wouldn't autoconfigure and specifically didn't work with Outlook Anywhere. In my case, the mutual authenticaiton piece was failing. Thanks to this site for helping my diagnose the issue. The problem is with SAN certs. For mutual authentication to work with Outlook Anywhere, the FQDN for the external hostname used must match the Issued To field of the cert and doesn't work if you use an external hostname specified in the Subject Alternative Field.
I was looking at how I would query the time on a number of remote computers. In our specific case, we just wanted to make sure that our domain controllers were some-what close (within a second) on their local time. We've been chasing issues with time keeping in our VMware environment. I've posted the source code for this simple C# script to query the time on all computers specified in a file. Enjoy!
Here at the university we use Perfmon alerts to alert us when Windows server hard disks are dangerously close to filling up. Sometimes, it’s nice get an idea of what the hard disks are at, looking to see if any disks are getting close to running out of space without getting an alarm in the middle of the night.
