Archive for March, 2009

How to find and export mailboxes by size in Exchange 2007

My friend Nicolas recently wrote a great post on how to find and export mailboxes by size from the Exchange Management Shell (EMS). I’m sure many administrators will find this pretty handy.
Read his post here

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Burn .ISO to disk natively with Windows 7

I found a really neat little feature today, Windows 7 allows you to burn .ISO files to disk natively without any third party software.
Simply double-click the .iso image:

Select the appropriate drive and click “Burn”

And there you go..
It seems my friend Craig blogged about this a little while ago as well, click here to [...]

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Exchange 2007 Post Deployment Testing: Part 1

After your planning and deployment phases have been completed, its very important to ensure proper testing of your new environment before moving user accounts and putting the servers into production. Exchange 2007 provides several powershell cmdlets that make it really easy.
a list of all test cmdlets can be obtained by issuing the Get-Command Test* cmd [...]

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Exchange 2007 Update Rollup 7 Released

A mere 5 weeks after Update Rollup 6, Microsoft have released Update Rollup 7 for Exchange 2007 Sp1. The update fixes around 50 issues.
For more info on the update and to download it, see KB953469 
I would like to highlight the following:
“Note Certain Exchange Server 2007 managed code services may not start after you install this [...]

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Quest Software’s UC Solutions

Quest have some really cool products to add value to UC implementations (like you need it, right?)
Some of the key products are:
Spotlight on Messaging: Spotlight® on Messaging helps administrators get more out of their messaging environments by diagnosing and resolving problems across multiple platforms. A comprehensive view into an organization’s messaging [...]

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Lenovo T61 Biometric Device on Windows 7

After rebuilding my trusty T61 with Windows 7 about a week ago, the only device that was not functioning correctly was the “biometric coprocessor”. I tried installing the software using ThinkVantage Productivity Center, but this did not work. After asking google, I found that the device was manufactured by UPEK and that they have released [...]

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IBM Lotusphere Comes to You 2009

Yesterday I attended the IBM Lotusphere Comes to You event here in Sydney. I was excited to see what the IBM Unified Communications strategy would be and ended getting a lot more than I had bargained for.
The event covered a large part of their portfolio from Messaging and Collaboration, UC and Web Portals to Cloud [...]

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Windows 7 and Cisco VPN Client

So, managed to get everything installed and working great yesterday, really fought with the Cisco VPN client, but I eventually managed to get it working (or so I thought!) installed all windows updates before shutting down last night .. arrived at the office a little earlier this morning, turn my laptop on, BLUE SCREEN OF [...]

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Windows 7: My initial thoughts..

While some of my “bleeding edge”” colleagues have been running and blogging about Windows 7 for a while now, its taken me a little longer to get my hands dirty. I decided to rebuild my Lenovo T61 yesterday and see what all the fuss was about.
The installation was seamless and quick, as you would expect. [...]

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