What a mouthful?! Anyway, I figured the best way to learn Windows 8 without rebuilding my primary workstation, (Windows 7), was to throw it on a VM. And because the primary box is a desktop and not at all portable,…
Yearly Archives: 2012
I have a major dislike for SCCM…
If I used it daily, or even weekly, I would probably grow to appreciate the beast of a server that it is, but working with once every couple of months is killing me!
Posted in Technology, Windows
Note about removing the Unified Messaging Server Role from 1 of 2 UM servers in Exchange 2007
Read the manual!!! Unfortunately, I had to learn this the hard way. After going through the setup.com steps to remove the role from a server we are going to take out of commission, we started seeing errors like the following…
Posted in Exchange 2007, Technology
View Power Options remotely
Sometimes it’s the simple things that we forget… Because of a weird problem with an older XP machine, I wanted to look at the power options configuration. Not a problem to do if you have access to the box, but…
Posted in Technology, Windows
List users in an OU with PowerShell
Because I’m lazy, I guess, I have been looking for ways to print out lists of AD object, Exchange mailboxes, etc, etc with PowerShell so that I can just copy/paste the list into our ticketing system instead of typing each…
Set up mail forwarding and forwarding address for all users in an OU
Recently I needed to set up a user and mailbox to represent each of our branches and then have the mail for each of those mailboxes forwarded to a distribution list. It’s an easy thing to do for individual mailboxes…
Posted in Exchange 2007, Powershell
Backup Exec’s “Ready; No idle devices are available” job status
Normally, seeing the “Ready; No idle devices are available” job status in Backup Exec is not a problem because there are other jobs already using the devices that job is assigned to. When I have 2 tape drives sitting there…
Posted in Technology
Quest Software Powershell CMDLETS for Active Directory…
I was digging for a way to pull a list of the groups a user is a direct member of, (just to make it easy to document… yes, I’m that lazy), and ran across a couple of posts recommending the…
Posted in Exchange 2007, Powershell
Powershell is greatness…
Most of the mailbox migrations went really well, and I only had about 100 mailboxes fail to move. Not bad when I was moving >1000, (granted, a 10% failure rate isn’t really GOOD, either). I got them rescheduled to run…
Posted in Powershell
Exchange 2007 mailbox migration script
As I stated earlier, we are moving from a single mailbox server to a CCR cluster. Even with 1000 mailboxes, though, I didn’t want to do them all manually! The following script is what I used, and then set up…
Posted in Exchange 2007, Powershell
The Hat Rack 