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Monday, September 14, 2009

Directory Services - Tombstone Objects and Phantom Objects

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In this blog post I’m going to write about both phantom and tombstone objects in Active Directory as it’s a grey area for most of us. Lastly...
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Thursday, September 10, 2009

VB Scripting - List All users in Domain

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Here is a VB Script I Wrote to list all users in a domain. Replace domainname with your domain such as "company.local". Option Exp...
Wednesday, September 9, 2009

How to Join a Domain Controller to a Single Labelled Domain Name

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If you have a active directory domain that has a single labelled DNS suffix ie its called "domain" instead of "domain.com...
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Adding a New Domain to a Single Labelled DNS Forest Root Domain

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I was creating a new active directory domain in a forest that had a single labelled DNS suffix for the forest root domain. I had the "...
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Monday, September 7, 2009

Error While Promoting a Domain Controller Server 2008

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I was promoting a new domain controller as an additional domain controller out at a client... then I got this error: The operation failed be...
Saturday, September 5, 2009

http://virscan.org/ - Multi-engine Online Virus Scanner

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If you have a file that you think is sus and you want it to be scanned with an online virus scanner, I highly recommend http://virscan.org ....
Friday, September 4, 2009

Insite into Free/Busy Exchange 2003/2007

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In this blog post we will be going through how free/busy works in detail in both Outlook 2003/Exchange 2003 and Outlook 2007/Exchange 2007, ...
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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Check If Your On An Real Time Block List

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If you suspect a email SMTP server is on a RBL (Real-time Block List) and you are having emails bounce from particular hosts, here are a fe...

Registering Schema Management Server 2008

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In Windows Server 2008 you register the schema management console the same as you did in Server 2003. However in 2008 you will recieve this ...
Monday, August 31, 2009

Driver Signing Preventing Exchange 2003 from Installing

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I was installing exchange 2003 on windows server 2003 SP2, and every dll file it tried to copy it would pop up with: The driver software you...
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Exchange 2007 SP2

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Microsoft has finally released Exchange 2007 SP2. This requires another schema update to install - so make sure your account is member of t...
Thursday, August 27, 2009

System State Backup in Server 2008

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In Server 2008 there is no more NTBackup so system state backups now need to be done using the 2008 backup utility. First you need to ensure...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Fix Spellcheck Office 2010 Technical Preview

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In the technical preview Microsoft released to the public, the spell check does not work. To fix this, delete the Overwrite key located und...
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Sunday, August 16, 2009

Find What Active Sync Devices Users are Using

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I had a client that wanted to know how many of a particular type of windows mobile device they had in their environment. Below are the ways...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Scripting - Find out how many users in a domain

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I required a simple script to find out how many users are in an AD domain. Before creating one myself I looked and found one thats really e...
Monday, August 10, 2009

Windows Vista Sound Problem Gotcha!

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This is fairly basic compared to the stuff I ususally post about however this had me stumped for over an hour - this is really a stupid stup...
Sunday, August 9, 2009

Exchange 2010 Database Mobility

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In today's post I'm going to write about Exchange 2010 Database Mobility and the changes that have been made to the mailbox server r...
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Sunday, July 26, 2009

Windows Server 2008 Terminal Services

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In this post I will be going through some of the new features that are included in Windows Server 2008 terminal services. It frustrates me a...
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Exchange User Monitor

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Microsoft has a great tool for monitoring which users are causing the most load on your exchange server. This is fantastic for finding out ...

Troubleshoot Rapid Mailbox Growth Issues

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Sometimes bad outlook profiles and stupid mail rules can cause rapid mailbox growth and transaction log growth for particular individuals. ...

Exchange 2007 Update Rollout 9

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With the release of Update Rollout 9 for Exchange 2007 SP1 comes a new version of eseutil. This new version has a new arithmetic for verify...

Microsoft Device Emulator - Testing Active Sync (Outlook Mobile Access)

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If you want to test and verify that Active Sync is functioning correctly for end users and you dont have a windows mobile device Microsoft p...
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Clint Boessen
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Solution Architect
MCSE: Server Infrastructure
MCSE: Productivity
MCSE: Cloud Platform and Infrastructure

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