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SharePoint 2010 – Deploying Webpart Solution

The process of installing a custom webpart solution doesn’t have to be a complex task. In fact all you need to do is run two commands In Power Shell and activate the custom webpart and you are done. So here are some steps I took recently: Copied the webpart to the local disk of my SharePoint server, I placed […]

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Removing an auto-mapped mailbox

In Exchange Server 2010 SP1, shared mailbox with full access rights will be auto mapped to the users given such rights. This is fine for that user who doesn’t seem to know how to add an additional mailbox to their Outlook 2007, 2010, 2013 client. But what about those support and systems admins who grant themselves access for troubleshooting […]

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Simple Exchange 2010 Database White Space Report

I was looking at some of my database on Exchange that seemed to be very large in size so first thought was that an offline defrag may be needed, but before I reach that point I wanted to know how much ‘slack’ or white space existed in each of my Exchange databases. This was done […]

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ESEUtil to Defrag an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database

A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant – rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance – but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. – Roberto Burle Marx     How To use ESEUtil […]

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Determining Free Space in an Exchange 2010 Mailbox Database

In Exchange 2010 you can see how big your mailbox databases are, and how much white space they have, by running the following command in the Exchange Management Shell. [PS] C:>Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | ft name,databasesize,availablenewmailboxspace -auto In screen-cap database AB is 64.76 GB in size but has 11.97 MB white space due to mail deleted. This is […]

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Upgrade Windows Server without Re-installing

Like in my previous post, we will be using the DISM.exe command (Deployment Image Servicing and Management Tool), that is available in Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. This time to change the version of Server 2008 R2 from Standard to Enterprise Edition. Click on the “Start Button” Type Power, PowerShell will then show under programs, […]