Clint Boessen's Blog

I had the following problem on a client's server: Event Type: Error Event Source: WinMgmt Event Category: None Event ID: 27 Date: 1/11/2...

Syncing user attributes cross forest. I wrote a script that can be used to sync user attributes cross forest. Run this script in the destina...

How to set an AD Attribute using LDAP in VBScript. In this instance I'm setting the mail attribute. Const ADS_PROPERTY_UPDATE = 2 Set ob...

Below is a VBScript I wrote that lists all users by the distinguishedname attribute across a forest trust. If you search through all users u...

How to find locked out accounts using VBScript and LDAP: Const ADS_UF_LOCKOUT = 16 ldapFilter = "(&(sAMAccountType=805306368)(locko...

I came across a website by ActiveXperts with lots of script examples of modifying user attributes via LDAP and VBScript. Please check it ou...

The following powershell script lists all users in an active directory domain. $strFilter = "(&(objectCategory=User))" $objDom...

I went to move a mailbox database to another node by using "Move Active Mailbox Database" from Exchange Management Console or Move...

When dealing with Exchange 2010 and legacy exchange servers such as 2003 or 2007, Exchange 2010 CAS servers will either redirect or proxy th...

I had a client where autodiscover was working fine internally however external clients could not perform autodiscover requests. The client i...

I was getting an error on my Windows XP workstations: Event Type: Error Event Source: Userenv Event Category: None Event ID: 1058 Date: 22/0...

In this blog post I'm going to show you how to mass deploy .NET Framework 4 to all PC's in your Active Directory domain. EDIT: THIS ...

To find the wireless channels in windows open a command prompt and run the following commands: netsh wlan show all scroll down...

Exchange 2007 Certificates Whitepaper - very good article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164344.aspx

How to publish Exchange 2010 through Threat Management Gateway (TMG) http://download.microsoft.com/download/E/5/6/E56ACB6E-7BCC-40F1-8F18-E6...

In Exchange 2010 MAPI Encryption is enforced by default. Outlook 2003 does not support MAPI Encryption by default. This means Outlook 2003 c...

When running the Exchange 2010 Pre-Deployment Analyzer you will probably get this message: Before introducing Exchange Server 2010 into this...

When running the Exchange Pre-Deployment Analyzer I got the following message: Exchange Development Kit (EDK) connector 'Connector for C...

In Linux and Unix world when we want to grab a line that contains specific output we would just use the following command: command | grep se...

I ran into an issue with an Exchange 2007 CCR cluster where the cluster name and cluster IP resources would not come online. When running T...

Working with a Microsoft Engineer on a cluster issue today. He showed me a really cool command to get some diagnostic log information about ...

This article applies to all versions of Exchange from 5.5 to 2010. The following knowledge base article gives you all the fruit about flushi...

In a CCR cluster the following command was executed in Exchange Management Shell: Test-ReplicationHealth The following error was experianced...

Today I'm building a new Exchange 2010 environment with 2 servers running in Hub Transport and Client Access in a CAS Array, and 2 backe...

In Exchange 2007 log files were configured on the storage group. In Exchange 2010 storage groups no longer exist! So how do you change the ...

One of the new features of Exchange 2010 is Federation. It allows companies to share exchange related data with external companies such as F...

Email Moderation is a new feature that allows a moderator to moderate emails before they reach their destination. If you have not read about...

In this article I'm going to shed a little light around the RecoverServer command located on the Exchange 2007 and 2010 media. Running S...

Microsoft has released a spreadsheet for Sizing Exchange 2010 to suit the number of users and business requirements. This will let you know...

In this post I will be showing you a few quick ways how to determine if a certificate authority is a stand alone certificate authority or an...