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AD: Managing Local Administrator Group Memberships

Archived in the category: Active Directory, Security
Posted by Olga on 25 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

Being able to easily delegate access to domain systems is essential for administrators to enable necessary IT staff to manage their environments. The proper OU structure along with the deployment of Active Directory GPOs makes this a fairly simple task.
GPOs can be used to add users or groups to local admins or to replace [...]

E2K7: How to Change the Recipient Scope

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, PowerShell, Technology, Tools
Posted by Dave on 25 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

When managing Exchange 2007, the recipient scope for Exchange Management Shell (EMS) and Exchange Management Console (EMC) defaults to the domain where the Exchange servers are located. Recipient scope refers to the specified portion of the Active Directory directory service hierarchy that the Exchange Management Console and the Exchange Management Shell uses for recipient management. When [...]

Sync your Domain with an Internet time server

Archived in the category: Active Directory, Security, Technology, Tools, Windows
Posted by Dave on 19 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

Recently, the time on all of my domain computers was out of sync. Each computer in my domain had the same time, but it was about 10 minutes slow. Domain computers get their time from your domain controller(s), so I looked into syncing the time of my DC with an internet time server. The steps [...]

Disable the User Account Control (UAC) features in Windows Vista

Archived in the category: Technology
Posted by Dave on 15 Sep 09 - 0 Comments

Windows Vista has the built-in ability to automatically reduce the potential of security breaches in the system. It does that by automatically enabling a feature called User Account Control (or UAC for short). The UAC forces users that are part of the local administrators group to run like they were regular users with no administrative [...]

E2K7: Determining Status of Database Backups

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, PowerShell, Technology, Tools
Posted by Dave on 27 Aug 09 - 0 Comments

While running some reports on Exchange backup success I could not figure out why when I ran get-mailboxdatabase | fl Name,LastFullBackup it would return a blank LastFull Backup.  In Exchange Management console I could look at the properties of the database and see the Last full backup and the Last incrementation backup times.

 
After some search, [...]

E2K7: Standby Continuous Replication

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 24 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

Activating Standby Continuous Replication Targets
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691321.aspx

Standby Continuous Replication: Site Resilience with Standby Clustering
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150.aspx
Standby Continuous Replication: Database Portability
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738132.aspx

 
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676502.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc164368.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/ehlo/archive/2008/01/08/1447442.aspx

Exchange 2010 here we come!!

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 23 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

There are some really nice features coming in Exchange 2010 that will help in my current situation.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/dd185494.aspx

E2K7: High-Availability and Disaster Recovery

Archived in the category: Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 21 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

 
http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/power/Dell_ExchSP1_W2K8.pdf
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/sitelets/solutions/messaging/exchange_2007_resources?c=us&l=en&cs=555
Standby Continuous Replication
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb676502.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb691321.aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb738150.aspx

E2K7: Exchange Cache Limits

Archived in the category: Active Directory, Exchange Server, Technology
Posted by Dave on 21 Jul 09 - 0 Comments

There are so many articles that I need to write for myself, but with my workload it becomes difficult.  I’ve resigned myself to posting links to other people articles.  Maybe some day I’ll get back to these. 
This article discusses Mailbox cache limits in Exchange.  If you ever find yourself in a situation where someone like [...]