Tweet Having read various books, articles, white papers and best practice guides I have found it difficult to find consistently good advice on vNetwork and physical switch teaming design so I thought I would write my own based on what I have tested and configured myself. To begin with I must say I am no [...]
Tweet 1. Check for a scratch partition in the Software Advanced Settings in the Configuration tab of the vSphere Client. If one doesn’t exist configure one and reboot the host before proceeding with the upgrade. (See here for more info) 2. Download and install the VMware vSphere command line interface. (vSphere CLI) 3. Download the [...]
Tweet ‘If you’re running Microsoft Small Business Server 2008 – AKA SBS 2008 – You may experience occasional internet problems resolving certain websites and domain names… THe problem is caused by ‘Root Hints’ the method the server is using to resolve DNS requests. There are several workarounds to the issue, these include restarting the DNS [...]
Tweet Powerchute Network Shutdown version 3.0.0 software for ESXi is now free when you purchase a network shutdown management card from the APC website. 1. Download VMA (vSphere Management Assistant) 1. Highlight VM Host> File> Deploy OVF Template> Browse to VMA Folder and Select the OVF> Next> Accept Licence> Next> Keep Default Disk Configuration> [...]
Tweet To import PST’s in Exchange 2010 install Outlook 2010 64-bit on Exchange server and run New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Role “Mailbox Import Export” –User “<username>” dir c:\pst_location | %{Import-Mailbox -Identity $_.basename -PSTFolderPath $_.fullname}
Tweet Get-MailboxDatabase “Mailbox Database” | Get-MailboxStatistics | Sort totalitemsize -desc | ft displayname, totalitemsize, itemcount
Tweet Run the following command from the C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Exchange Server\V14\Scripts folder. ./install-AntispamAgents.ps1 2. After the script has run, restart the Microsoft Exchange Transport service by running the following command. Restart-Service MSExchangeTransport For all anti-spam features to work correctly, you must have at least one IP address of an internal SMTP server set on the InternalSMTPServers [...]
Tweet New-ReceiveConnector -Name RelayConnector -usage Custom –Bindings x.x.x.x -fqdn server.fqdn.local -RemoteIPRanges x.x.x.x-.x.x.x.x -server servername -permissiongroups ExchangeServers -AuthMechanism ‘TLS, ExternalAuthoritative’
Tweet Receive Connector —————– Define the FQDN: Set-ReceiveConnector “<Connector-Name>” –Fqdn:name.company.ca Set up Anonymous Authentication: (take a note of the current groups) Get-ReceiveConnector “<Connector-Name>” | Select PermissionsGroups (use the current value plus the new value) Set-ReceiveConnector “<Connector-Name>” –PermissionGroups:<AnonymousUsers, ExchangeUsers, ExchangeServers, ExchangeLegacyServers, Partners> ADMINISTRATION ++++++++++++++ New Mailbox User: New-Mailbox -Name “<name>” -Alias <alias> -Database “<mailboxdatabasename>” -UserPrincipalName <alias>@<domain.local> [...]
Tweet This is a guide for transitioning Exchange 2003 to 2010 in the same domain. n.b (An Exchange migration is from one Active Directory forest to a different Active Directory forest.) Bring the Exchange organization to Exchange Native Mode. Upgrade all Exchange 2003 Servers to Exchange Server 2003 Service Pack 2. Bring the AD forest [...]
