A Treasure Trove of Technology Tidbits
I listened to a marketing lecture today which (among other things) described how Google generates revenue from its default search engine website. This is the traditional search page where you enter your search term(s) and click the search button. The result set includes: (a) Paid Placements — the advertisements that appear on your right. (b) […]
Some companies, for instance for litigation purposes, end up with a long list of disabled (but not deleted) mailboxes. Sometimes, for instance when a co-op returns from college, one of these disabled mailboxes needs to be re-enabled. At one company I recently visited, the scenario was that they had disabled a mailbox in Exchange 2003, […]
So, this week I was helping a customer transition from Exchange to Office365. The implementation included Microsoft Lync features as well as email. We were looking for the key parameters to alter in order to make the transition. After digging about on the Microsoft website, I came across this very useful information. Refer to the […]
Step one of most every network debug is “Does it respond to pings?” But, now with Windows Server 2008R2, the answer is always “no” which does not help with the debugging. Obviously turning off the Windows Firewall feature will allow pings but this is too drastic an approach for my taste. Creating a new firewall […]
If you have just installed Exchange 2010 Server, you will notice that it hounds you until you have licensed the server. What I find most aggravating is that the popup that reminds you the server needs licensing does not bother to provide a link, or any information about how to enter the product keys. So, […]
I came across this video last week. It was produced by the Microsoft Marketing department to highlight an issue with the existing Microsoft approach to packaging products — that the packaging contains so much information that its hard to tell what’s actually being sold. Anyway, if you are familiar with both Apple product and Microsoft […]
In previous blog posts, I discussed how to prepare your existing 2003 domain to receive new 2008R1 and 2008R2 domain controllers. In this post, the detailed steps to create the new 2008 domain controller is documented. Note that I assume you have already installed a fresh copy of 2008 (either physically or virtually), have fully […]
I have blogged about how to add a Microsoft Windows 2008R1 domain controller (DC) to a 2003 Domain. But, what if you need to add a Microsoft 2008R2 domain controller to a 2003 Domain? If you run adprep, you get an error because you cannot run a 64-bit executable in a 32-bit environment! The answer […]
I’ve added a Microsoft Windows 2008R1 domain controller (DC) to a 2003 Domain, and the instructions are simple, first you prepare to upgrade: Create the new 2008R1 machine, installing the operating system per normal In Windows Explorer, share the DVD drive out as read-only Run the command at the 2008 DOS prompt to see the […]
When migrating user mailboxes from Exchange 2007 to 2010, you can either use the Exchange Management Console (EMC) or the Exchange Management Shell. However, when moving from 2003 to 2010, you are supposed to specifically use the shell. For more information, you can link to http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd638187.aspx which goes into the details. Calendar items seem to […]