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By Krystian Zieja on September 30, 2009 - 01:02
Power Shell is very handy when it comes to managing Exchange 2007. Adding new email addresses for existing mailbox users is very common task for exchange administrators. Unfortunately there is no one cmdlet which would allow it. Below I will present a simple script, which is a combination of Get-Mailbox and Set-Mailbox cmdlets.
By Krystian Zieja on September 20, 2009 - 09:20
Very often we have to mount ISO images, especially if we are using software from MSDN or TechNet subscriptions; ISO is a standard format in which Microsoft distributes their software. Unfortunately neither Windows 7 final version (I have not installed it recently) nor any previous Windows version natively supported mounting ISO images.
By Krystian Zieja on September 9, 2009 - 02:50
Send As is very powerful permission in Exchange 2007. Send As permission allows a user to whom it was granted to send emails directly as another person. Implementing such feature is frequent requirement in many companies. For example an office assistant is responsible for replying to emails, which were sent to company mailbox. We could resolve it by granting Send on Behalf permission to office assistant, but what if we want to hide actual sender from recipients, in that situation Send As is the only choice.
By Krystian Zieja on September 7, 2009 - 11:03
All Sql Server Administrators heard about SA account, how insecure it is and how many vulnerabilities exists that enable someone to break our Sql Server. Microsoft suggests using Windows Authentication Mode, instead of Mixed Mode. Mixed Mode exists only for backward compatibility. The safest solution would be to disable SA account and forget about the problem. However the world is not ideal and sometimes we have to use legacy 3rd party applications, which require Mixed Mode. In those situations we can rename SA account to make it harder to crack. Renaming Administrator account/s is a standard practice used by Windows Domain Administrators, so we will try to implement the same on Sql Server. We can rename SA account in Sql Server 2005 and Sql Server 2008.
By Krystian Zieja on September 4, 2009 - 08:00
When running Small Business Server 2008 Best Practices Analyzes, you can see that mysterious error.
DNS A resource record points to incorrect IP address
The host (A) resource record points to the incorrect IP address 192.168.1.59192.168.1.2. The record should point to 192.168.0.2.
By Krystian Zieja on September 2, 2009 - 22:39
Many Small Business Server administrators forget to use one very handy and free tool which will help them to implement the best practices on their server. The tool is called Small Business Server Best Practices Analyzer which was released by Microsoft to help administrators in implementing the best practices.
By Krystian Zieja on August 30, 2009 - 14:57
.NET comes with many classes that make accomplishing almost any task quite easy. In below program I will present how easy is to retrieve a list of files in a directory using DirectoryInfo and FileInfo classes.
By Krystian Zieja on August 30, 2009 - 00:06
Many people are confused on the proper procedure to install Client Access Licenses (CALs) in Microsoft Small Business Server 2008. Those who know Small Business Server 2003, are searching for option to add CALs using Server Manager, but there is no such option.
By Krystian Zieja on August 27, 2009 - 15:30
VPN connection to company network is a very common requirement. It allows mobile users to connect to corporate network. By default in Small Business Server 2008 users are not allowed to connect to VPN. When they try to connect to VPN server they receive Error 649: The account does not have permission to dial in. There are many solutions to that problem I will present the simplest, which is based on Role Management.
By Krystian Zieja on August 22, 2009 - 21:53
BCP is one of the oldest tools you can find in current version of Sql Server, Microsoft started releasing it with early versions of Sql Server. It is designed to perform fast import and export operations. BCP is considered as a lightweight solution for import and export operations, if you need to perform transformations or error handling you should use Sql Server Integration Services (SSIS) instead. This blog post will present the basic ways how to export data from Sql Server database using BCP.
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