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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 Read more

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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 Read more

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Outlook and OWA Tips & Tricks

1. Manage Attachment behaviour

1.1. Outlook 2007

Although you probably have deployed an antivirus solution in your messaging infrastructure, by default, Outlook blocks access to certain attachments, even if they have been scanned or not. After all, Outlook doesn’t Read more

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Securing Windows Server 2008 and Active Directory

According to Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 is the most secure Windows server version ever.

Windows 2008 does include many features that will help increase overall security of the OS, or assist you with securing AD, the network, etc. Most Read more

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Using custom/non-Performance Counter data to build graphs in Operations Manager 2007

It is pretty easy to use data collected by Performance monitors in Counter objects within OpsMgr 2007. You can create graphs, create rules/monitors alerts, etc

But you can do the same with any type of information that can be Read more

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Monitoring disk space utilization growth/increase with Operations Manager 2007

By default, Microsoft Operations Manager includes some monitors / rules that have the ability to monitor the disk utilization of system and/or data disks of your servers (and clients). This is a really nice feature, however there may be Read more

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Add ‘Command Prompt Here’ when you right-click in Explorer

Open your favourite registry editor (regedit will do just fine)

Go to "HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT" Locate the "Folder" key Open the "shell" branch Create a new key called "Command Prompt Here" Open this key and create a new key called Read more

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Creating empty VMWare .vmdk files

Having empty vmdk files allows you to – create virtual machines even with vmware player – create additional disks and add them to existing vmware installations

The easiest way to create custom vmdk ‘disks’ is by using a free Read more

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IP Autotuning in Vista

At any given time, the amount that TCP can send is governed by three factors: the congestion window, the receive window and the number of bytes available to send. Without using TCP window scaling (which is disabled by default Read more

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System/Disk Backup in Vista using command line script

Microsoft has implemented a really neat feature in Vista Business, Enterprise and Ultimate, allowing you to perform a full disk or even system backup, while the system is running.

This new backup tool used Block Level backup and uses Read more

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