Technology Blogs by Imran

Tools which you can’t live without -- LastPass:

2009-05-22T10:22:00.002+04:00

LastPass is a superb tool for managing all your online usernames and password in a highly secured way. Believe me the time you will start using this tool you will become a big fan of it and then you will realize that why I ranked it as Tools which you can’t live without. You can easily import your password data from other password keeping tools like Firefox,IE built-in feature of remembering

Microsoft DirectAccess! No more dialing VPN Connections:

2009-05-15T11:53:00.003+04:00

Microsoft DirectAccess is a new cool feature available in Windows 7 in partner with Windows 2008 R2 Server (aKa Windows 7 Server). If your organization has number of mobile users working from home or anywhere outside the office, normally they need to dial some kind of VPN connection to connect with corporate network and then can utilize the intranet resources. This kind of VPN connections some

Installing Hyper-V Manager in Windows 7 RC:

2009-05-14T16:13:00.001+04:00

If you have MS Hyper-V 2008 Server or Hyper-V running on MS Windows 2008 Server OS, you can manage these remotely through Windows 7 also. To achieve this goal you need to install Remote Server Administration Tools for Windows 7 which is available for download at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f6c62797-791c-48e3-b754-c7c0a09f32f3&displaylang=en. Once you download and

Tools which you can’t live without -- Xobni 1.7. No more Betas:

2009-05-14T10:30:00.001+04:00

I am going to start a new blog series where I will share the most commonly daily use tools which one can’t live without. If anyone of you also know this kind of tools kindly share with me, I will include those in this new blog series. Xobni is a free tool funded by Cisco Systems and BlackBerry Partners Fund. This tool integrate in your MS-Outlook and gives you excellent search capabilities

Troubleshooting Exchange 2007 Email Transport issues using Pipeline Tracing:

2009-05-10T12:33:00.001+04:00

Pipeline tracing is a very handy feature for Email Administrators introduced in MS-Exchange 2007. After enabling it you can get a detailed log of message routing through Hub Transport or Edge Transport Servers, this helps me many times to isolate transport issues. Pipeline tracing generates log files only for e-mail messages that are sent from the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) e-mail

Nice new Interface of MS Exchange 2010 OWA aka Outlook Live:

2009-05-05T16:42:00.001+04:00

I recently installed MS Exchange 2010 beta over MS Windows 2008 in my test environment. Truly speaking new Exchange 2010 OWA has a very nice interface and which has near resemblance to Windows live mail thats why Microsoft started calling it Outlook Live. It has also a new conversation grouping view same like Gmail. The good thing is that its fully compatible with Mozilla Firefox also. Have a

Allow Anonymous Inward SIP Calls in Trixbox:

2009-05-01T23:10:00.002+04:00

Most of the online VoIP providers will give you the steps how to configure their SIP trunk for incoming and outgoing calls in Trixbox but after following those steps you often not able to receive inbound calls. This is because Trixbox does not allow inbound anonymous calls by default. To allow anonymous calls you have to go to PBX Settings –> General Settings then on right pane scroll down and

Get Free iNum now:

2009-04-19T19:54:00.002+04:00

iNum stands for international Number. It is a new kind of global phone number for a new kind of world -- a world with a new geography that's about local presence and global relationships, not about distance or national borders. iNum is making use of the +883 global country code newly created by the ITU (International Telecommunication Union). Now you can get iNum for free from different

Display IP Phone field in MS Exchange 2007 OAB user’s properties:

2009-03-07T18:01:00.002+04:00

A lot of people on internet has been asking that how to display IP Phone field when we browse the users properties in address book through MS Outlook. Even I was on of them, so I opened many support tickets with MS and finally got success in achieving this task now I will share my steps here: 1. Open Schema Manager using mmc Note: You need to register schmmgmt.dll, to get this snap-in Install

Enforcedly refreshing the Offline Address book in Ms-Outlook 2007 and MS-Exchange 2007

2009-03-07T17:45:00.002+04:00

If users are complaining that GAL is not showing updates then you can enforce it to update. By default Ms-Outlook refresh interval is 24 hrs. You should also tune your server to update the Offline GAL frequently, this can be done by : EMC -->Server Configuration --> Client Access --> OAB Distribution --> Right click –-> Properties --> and then change Polling interval to something 5 or 10 minutes

Dial Tone Restore of Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007

2009-03-07T00:38:00.002+04:00

Dial tone restore is really nice when you want to adopt Recover now and restore later method. it can be a good idea to use this method in conjunction with the Recovery Storage Group (RSG) feature, when faced with one or more corrupt Mailbox Stores. Introduction If you one day are faced with a relatively large corrupt Mailbox Store, restoring it can, depending on things such