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Find my Exchange 2010 version with the help of PowerShell

You have exchange running.  What’s this; Microsoft has released SP2.  Well what version am I running. The answer is simple to obtain with a quick little PowerShell fun you can have it in seconds. First you will need to run the Exchange Management Shell. Once you have this running you will issue the following command: […]

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Create New Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database with PowerShell

Here is a short hot-to use the PowerShell to create a new exchange mailbox database. I recently learned how to do this when setting up databases for my new Exchange 2010 setup and again today I went over the steps. Today I will share them with you.   First you will need to run the Exchange […]

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Modify the number of simultaneous Remote/Local Move Request on Exchange 2010

By default Exchange 2010 just move 5 mailboxes simultaneously. To increase or decrees this it you have to change a configuration file for Mailbox Replication Service. Open the file C:Program FilesMicrosoftExchange ServerV14BinMSExchangeMailboxReplication.exe.config; Increase the values to a number of simultaneous active moves that you want. These values are: MaxActiveMovesPerSourceMDB, MaxActiveMovesPerTargetMDB, MaxActiveMovesPerSourceServer, MaxActiveMovesPerTargetServer, MaxTotalMovesPerMRS <!– Mailbox Replication […]

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Howto: Upgrade Ubuntu Version of Server

To upgrade from Ubuntu server system to the latest server: 1- install the update-manager-core package if it is not already installed: sudo apt-get install update-manager-core 2- This is optional, you can update without doing this: Edit /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades and set Prompt=normal; 3- Launch the upgrade tool with the command sudo do-release-upgrade -d and follow the on-screen […]

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Exchange 2010 Outlook AD photo import/export

To export a photo from AD use the following command: $a= Get-ADUser USERNAME -Properties thumbnailphoto $a.thumbnailphoto | Set-Content c:pathphoto.jpg -Encoding byte To search all users and export their attribute of jpegPhoto if you want to use them for thumbnailPhoto attribute, use the following script taken from here http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ar-SA/ITCG/thread/4a1c0537-493c-409f-8ed3-b0798ad9f768 $filter = ‘(&(objectCategory=Person)(objectClass=User))’ $root= New-Object System.DirectoryServices.DirectoryEntry(“LDAP://RootDSE“) $searcher = New-Object […]

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Windows 7 Power Report

Do you have a laptop, are you running Windows 7, and most of all, does your battery seem like its running low faster than it should be?  If so perhaps running the following command from the command prompt will give you more information about what’s going on: powercfg -energy This will run for about 1 minute, more […]