Free tool – PVE TCP Ping Utility – v1.0.0.1
I wanted to share a small utility that I wrote a while ago, allowing you to run a non-interactive ‘ping’ to a tcp port (e.g. from within a script). This could for example allow you to bring up a VPN tunnel from a script (by generating traffic to a target host), to determine whether a […]
Exchange 2007 – Multi Account Domain to Single Resource Forest replication with IIFP and custom Rules Extension
Introduction The title of this post may be a bit misleading – synchronizing multiple account domains to a single domain or forest is not limited to Exchange. There may be other reasons (e.g. Identity Management solution) that require you to replicate users from multiple domains into a single domain/forest, or even ADAM instance. In this […]
Free Tool – Cisco Ironport C350 Safelist / Blocklist merge utility
If you have multiple Cisco Ironport C350 devices, you may have noticed that safelist / blocklist entries are bound to an individual device. So if your Ironport devices are both installed to handle incoming mails, end users need to manage safelists/blocklists on both devices in order to be sure that both devices operate in the […]
Free tool – Attachment filtering with Exchange 2007/2010 (custom transport agent)
Keywords : microsoft exchange 2007 attachment size filtering quarantine block reject small zip files attached When messaging admins need to implement some sort of attachment filtering, they mostly think about antivirus products, or using transport rules in Exchange 2007. I have discovered that not a lot of antivirus products nor the Exchange 2007 built-in functionalities […]
Free Tool – Password Generator dll for Visual Studio (and other languages)
Because some of my own applications required the ability to create random passwords, I decided to write a small dll that will allow me to implement the generation of random passwords in a fast and easy way. You can download the dll from How to use the dll in Visual Studio Create a new Visual […]
Free tool – PVE pcap statistics collector
Keywords : Wireshark Out Of Memory tcpdump statistics pcap The story I’m about to tell may sound familiar to most of you. You’ve been asked to gather some bandwidth utilization statistics on one of your servers. You’ve installed Wireshark on the server to capture all traffic, or you’ve used linux’ tcpdump to capture all traffic. […]
Free Tool – Exchange 2007 Outbound SMTP gateway redundancy
(a.k.a. PVE Exch2007 Rerouter manual) Keywords : Exchange 2007 outbound SMTP relay redundancy SendConnector outgoing mail high availability Microsoft Exchange 2007 allows you to consolidate your messaging infrastructure and host more users on one server. Combined with the introduction of new server roles, Exchange 2007 allows for high levels of redundancy and resilience, ensuring uptime […]
Free tool – PVE Active Directory Disable Users
Every admin knows by now that using Active Directory as the central authentication database allows for a lot of possibilities in terms of user account and security management. Keeping internal as well as external users in one and the same AD might be a good idea if you have a lot of external people (partners, […]
Free tool – Free POP3 Collector
Keywords : Free generic POP3 collector for Microsoft Exchange 2000 Exchange 2003 Exchange 2007 Lotus Domino Server download email from POP3 and forward to SMTP server Over the last 12 years, I have created multiple email addresses hosted with various Internet Providers, or other companies. I’m still using some of those addresses, and my wife […]
Free tool – Extracting email addresses from Outlook mail folders
I recently received the request to extract all email addresses from an Outlook pst file, not from the contacts, but from all emails within the Outlook folder structure. I opened the Outlook file (3,5Gb) and found a huge folder structure containing thousands of emails. Furthermore, I needed to get all unique email addresses from the […]
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