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Happy New Year – here’s my special gift to you, corelanc0d3r

I’m not going to spend a lot of words on this. Facts speak for themselves. 

A short while ago, I discovered this:

http://www.hackforums.net/showthread.php?tid=3031925

(you need to register to get access to the thread).  Screenshot :

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Exchange 2010 Certificates

In an older blog post on Certificate Authorities, I have provided some information about the process to generate Exchange 2007 certificates.  This process has slightly changed in Exchange 2010, and Johan Delimon (pro-exchange.be) has written an excellent article Read more

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Backup & Restore Windows Server based Print Servers

After having to recover a broken Windows Server based print server yesterday, I decided to write this small article on how to set up print server backups, and describe the simple process of recovering the print server after a Read more

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Monitoring your network with Powershell

I have written a small powershell script that will help you to monitor various hosts on your network.   Instead of using ping to see if a host is alive, this script will connect to tcp ports, so you can Read more

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Exchange 2007 : Powershell script to select optimal database for a new mailbox

If you have multiple Storage Groups / Databases on your Exchange 2007 server, you may want to try to spread your mailboxes over all databases.  You could use your “gut feeling” and/or select a database at random, or you Read more

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Exchange 2007 : Resource Room Mailboxes

Scenario : You have an AD account domain, that holds user accounts used to log on to the network/Outlook, and you have a dedicated Exchange 2007 resource forest, that holds the Exchange infrastructure, (linked) mailboxes, etc.  Accounts in the Read more

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Dynamic Distribution Lists not working as expected (0 recipients during mail routing)

Today, I encountered an interesting problem which appeared to be strange behaviour in Exchange 2007 at first, but fianlly ended up being a small configuration mistake. It just was not that easy to troubleshoot(but in the end, it all 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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Monitoring modems with OpsMgr 2007

In this short post, I’ll explain one of the techniques to monitor whether a modem is listening for incoming calls on a machine, using Operations Manager 2007. Assuming that you may have some modems that get turned on when Read more

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Exchange 2007 Administration : Policies and limits

Exchange 2007 offers a set of features that allow for centralized management of policies and limitations. These policies and limitations should help to setup and control mail flow, mailbox sizes, compliance (retention) and so. You’ll need an Enterprise CAL Read more

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