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Exchange 2010 – 1 Week to production

For several weeks / days I have been actively working on migrating our internal Exchange 2007 infrastructure to Exchange 2010.  In my lab setup I can say that Exchange 2010 is an awesome continuation in Microsoft flagship email product.. I will be documenting several of the things I’ve discovered about the process  and share with you all.  So please stop […]

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How-To Software

Windows 7 ‘GodMode’

I remember this little trick from back in my Windows Vista days, it seems that this also exists in the Windows 7 world. The trick is simple to execute, just enter the following commands:: up up down down left right left right b a select start By creating a new folder in Windows 7 and renaming it […]

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MapiException: TooManyMountedDatabases when mounting database

I was hit with a nice error when attempting to mount several Exchange databases on my new Exchange 2010 SP2 server that I had setup in a lab envionment for production testing. The error: ——————————————————–Microsoft Exchange Error——————————————————– Failed to mount database ‘IJ’.IJFailedError:Couldn’t mount the database that you specified. Specified database: IJ; Error code: An Active […]

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Openfiler – case of the missing storage

Today I was doing some cleanup on one of my Openfiler SAN Servers, in an attempt to recover unused disk space when I encounter an odd issue of the storage not being reclaimed. After waiting sometime I decided to investigate this problem. Opening putty, I SSH’ed into the server and was able to see that […]

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Outlook rules not working after Exchange 2010 migration

Last night I moved my email account from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010.  All went well with the move and email flowing as expected.   Outside of the issue of me not having email sent to my phone or the ability to check webmail all else was fine. I decided that I had reached the end […]

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Enter the Matrix Console

There is something out there and if you follow the white rabbit you might just find something, even if it isn’t what you were orginaly looking for.  With that I offer you the blue pill to some Ubuntu terminal fun. The program name is cmatrix.  What a fitting name because what the terminal program does is scroll matrix code text […]