If you ever find yourself in the position whereby you need to enforce a machine to use a particular KMS server or port then read on. Equally if you have a machine that doesn’t seem to read the KMS server _vlmcs srv records from DNS then check this. If you browse the registry with regedit…
Today Microsoft released the first update roll-up for the System Center 2012 SP1 suite. A pretty quick release from Microsoft seeing as SP1 isn’t yet available to Joe Public and the whole System Center 2012 suite hasn’t been available for a year yet. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2785682 I think this shows 2 things from Microsoft: There are still a number…
It’s been a little while since I added a new post so I thought I would add some details of what’s current for me. Working for a retail based company with several websites, we have to comply to PCI-DSS requirements. This essentially means we have to structure our network and servers in a ‘secure’ manner,…
Need to take a copy of multiple mailboxes? I’ve had to do this in the past for various reasons such as audit/investigations etc. You’ll need to create a .csv file with the list of mailboxes you want to export. Then save the script below in a .ps1 file and store it in the same location…
Another one of those things that you might use once in a blue moon. I had to retrieve a list of all smtp addresses from our Exchange 2007 environment for validation. We had multiple smtp addresses for each recipient so this could have been quite a daunting task but is actually straight forward. Here’s the powershell……
This is one of those things that you may not use often but you are almost guaranteed to need at some point. Below is an easy powershell script/command for you to use which will export a list of all your mailboxes and their sizes, into a CSV file. Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort-Object TotalItemSize -Descending | ft…
If you’ve been wondering where your cluster.log file is on your Windows Server 2008 cluster then you may be disappointed to find out that it no longer exists in 2008. Don’t be disheartened though as you can still generate a log file for your troubleshooting. In an elevated command prompt (if using UAC) type the…
If you are experiencing some issues trying to use the remote tools feature of System Center Configuration Manager 2007 on some machines and also deploying to some machines, check All Status messages in ConfigMgr. If you see the errors… “The ConfigMgr Advanced Client received policy that could not be verified. For more information see PolicyAgent.log…
I came across this one recently and found it was a pretty simple fix so I thought I should share it as it’s one of things that would annoy you otherwise. I’ve been working with Microsoft Systems Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 to replace our existing monitoring system and I haven’t touched it for a weeks…
More than patches 