In Exchange 2003 there was a feature called Mailbox Manager, which allowed an administrator to control many things about the messages that existed in users’ mailboxes.  One of the main features for this was to delete or move messages older than a certa …

Whether it be for configuring Blackberry Enterprise Server, Email Archiving, or Backups, at some point you will have to grant an individual user full access to all of the mailboxes in your environment.  Here are a few handy commands to do that. Grant F …

Recently I have been playing around with Terminal Services 2008, mostly the application publishing side of it, as I have grown a great hatred for Citrix.  Though Citrix does run well when it is working, in my experience it breaks often and is a PITA to …

A quick command to rip a CD or DVD with VMware ESX or VSphere. dd if=/dev/cdrom of={path}/{name of iso}

Recently we were approached by a long-time client who was merging with another company, and they had mutually decided to keep the other company’s internal domain, which would force our client to migrate to their domain.  They also wanted to upgrade fro …

We recently had a client who had accidentally deleted their BESAdmin account within Active Directory and needed to get it back.  We found this document to help us recreate the user account.  The one part of this document that needed to be adjusted in t …

Recently we had a server where the system drive was slowly filling up, and we had a hard time finding out what was causing it.  After using TreeSize Free (available here), I was able to find out that the folder C:WINDOWSInstaller was using 6GB of the d …

Working for a consulting agency, I often have to develop a migration plan along with an approximate timeline of how it will go.  Below is my list of things to do or verify when performing an Exchange migration, along with commands or links to posts on …

We recently began the process of moving one of our clients from a Server 2003 terminal server environment to a Server 2008 terminal server environment to take advantage of some of the new features including Session Broker.  One of the softwares that th …

This post is regarding a constant login prompt issue that appears while using Outlook 2007 SP2 with Outlook Anywhere and Exchange 2007 SP1 on Server 2008 with IIS7. We took on a new client recently after handling an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2007 migra …