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Cisco switch IOS cheat sheet

Reset to factory defaults :

  • connect console (9600/8/None/1, no flow control)
  • take out power cable
  • press mode button (at the front), hold it,  and put power cable back
  • switch will go into recovery mode
  • run :
    • flash_init
    • load_helper
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Windows 2003 Server Network Load Balancing (NLB) for IIS based SMTP services

In this post, I will explain how to set up 2 or more Windows 2003 servers to use the Windows Server built-in NLB functionalities in order to provide high availability and network load balancing for IIS based SMTP services.

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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.

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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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