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Goodbye MSN and Hotmail! Welcome Skype and Outlook!

jayb — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:53:16 +0000

Microsoft has upgraded its webmail and instant messenger products. Both Hotmail and MSN messenger have to moved to Outlook and Skype.

One of the great things about Skype is it will be able to communicate with Microsoft Lync which is the instant messenger solution for businesses. The new interface for Outlook is very nice and fast.

This infographic gives a little history on hotmail and MSN messenger, take a look and see how far Microsoft has come from its early days.

Goodbye MSN and Hotmail! Welcome Skype and Outlook! infographic by samir75in.

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Two helpful powershell scripts I used this weekend

jayb — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 01:04:50 +0000

This weekend I needed to clean up some old smtp domains from our exchange 2010 server. I found Mike Pfeiffer’s powershell script to remove smtp addresses from exchange and it worked great. Here’s the link to his script

I also added two new ESXi servers to our cluster. We only have Enterprise edition licenses so I can’t use distributed switches. I found a powercli script from vitual-al that will copy the vswitch configuration from one ESXi host to another. It doesn’t attach network adapters or create vmkernel ports, but those are easy to setup after the script runs.

I just wanted to say thinks for the scripts that were very useful this weekend

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26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Known at 20

jayb — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 17:12:45 +0000

Here’s a slideshare presentation with bullet points on ways to optimize your time

26 Time Management Hacks I Wish I’d Known at 20 from Etienne Garbugli

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See what process is using a TCP port in Windows Server 2008

jayb — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 13:54:18 +0000

We were trying to track down what port a license manager was using because the clients couldn’t connect to checkout a license. The Application owner did not know and didn’t have support on the product

So I whipped out the handy little command line netstat

netstat -nab

will give you a list of all connections and listening ports as well as the executable responsible for the open port.

We were able to use this information to find the port number for the license server and the clients could connect.

Netstat: network analysis and troubleshooting, explained (pinehead.tv)

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Increase limit in outlook rules

jayb — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 19:41:19 +0000

I thought I had a lot of rules in outlook. But the other day one of our developers came to be and said he couldn’t add any more rules to outlook. I’d never heard of the issue and showed him how many rules I had. He just laughed and said he can a bunch more than me.

So I started looking to see if this was a setting that could be increased and if it was a server wide setting or if I could do it per mailbox.

Powershell to the rescue! You can set it per mailbox.

In the Exchange management shell type

get-mailbox -id  | ft DisplayName,RulesQuota

This will return the current value for the rules quota, the default is 64 KB

Now type

set-mailbox -id  -rulesquota 256KB

this will increase the rules quota to 256KB which is the max size you can increase it to.

I can take a few hours to replicate and take effect because this is part of an active directory attribute.

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The 3 Key Differences between Static and Dynamic Code Analysis Tools

My blog Guest — Wed, 02 Jan 2013 14:19:57 +0000

Source code review is a crucial process in ensuring a secure web application. With manual code review no longer a viable option, automated code review systems are heavily relied upon. Here are the 3 key differences between a static and a dynamic code analysis tool.

Level of in-depth review

The key difference between a static and dynamic code analyser is the how in-depth the code review

process is. By default, static code analysis combs through every single line of source code to find flaws and errors. For dynamic analysis, the lines of code that get reviewed depend upon which lines of source code are activated during the testing process. Unless a line of code is interacted with, the dynamic analysis tool will ignore it and continue checking active codes for flaws. As a result, dynamic analysis is a lot quicker since it is able to review code on the fly and generates real-time data. However, static code analysis provides peace of mind that each and every line of source code has been thoroughly inspected. It may take longer, but static code analysis runs in the background and is crucial for creating a flawless web application.

Catching errors early and making recommendations

As mentioned before, dynamic analysis reviews codes during the testing process and generates

Html-source-code (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

real-time results. While it is great for fine-tuning the user experience, it has one major drawback: any errors highlighted by dynamic code analysis tools requires developers to go all the way back to the source code, make changes to the code itself and then make changes to everything that has been modified as a result of changing the source code. This is a very time consuming and expensive process; one that companies and developers like to avoid at all costs. Static code analysis tools highlight any errors immediately and allow developers to makes changes before proceeding any further. This ensures that anything that the developers do subsequently is not dependent upon a flawed platform. Moreover, static code analysis tools are more feature-packed than their dynamic counterparts. One important feature is the number of errors it can detect and the recommendations it can make to fix that error. If configured, static code analysers can automatically make the required changes and let developers know what changes have been made.

Cost of code analysis tools

Just like any other business, software application companies have to find a fine balance between application costs and profit margins. This is not helped by the fact that good developers and software tools cost a lot of money. With respect to price, static code analysis tools are always cheaper than dynamic analysers. Moreover, having a dynamic code analyser requires a company to hire professionals trained in the use of dynamic analysis tools. A static code analysis tool can be used by any web developer with ease, thus guaranteeing that it won’t turn out to be a long-term expenditure.

Static code analysers are absolutely essential for application developers, whereas dynamic code analysers can only be used in conjunction with static analysis tools.

Tom Rhoddings has authored this guest post.

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Tech Trends for 2013

jayb — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:18:19 +0000

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I thought I would share some of the trends I’m seeing in enterprise IT and how I think they will move into 2013

“Cloud” will slow

(Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Even with marketing telling you to move everything to the cloud, businesses will slow down cloud adaption and be more strategic on when and were cloud is used. I think backup and DR for the cloud as well as moving email to the cloud will grow.

VDI will adapt or die

Another technology that is more marketing hype than real world deployments. Current vdi solution are very limit on use cases and high on cost. The bandwidth requirements for large deployments over the WAN make most vdi installs too costly. VDI solutions are just now starting to offer options for personalizing a vdi desktop and not have it lose its master image link.

Application virtualization

Non web applications will need to be separate from the OS, so the OS can be kept “clean” and portable. This will allow the application to be updated from a central location as well as be deployed on any needed OS or device.

BI will move to the user

With the latest version of SQL and Sharepoint I see BI being handed to the user. The user will be able to use tools they are accustom to like excel but have the backend power of sharepoint. The dashboards in sharepoint will give quick access to metrics and the ability to drill down and see the data behind it.

IT Process improvement and automation

Lean IT, ITIL, what ever you want to call it. I think to continue to do more with less, IT will have to adapt Lean process and automation. Not only in application development but in the infrastructure side of the house. The term private cloud takes the idea of automation and charge back to the business can use internal resources but have the simple setup and management of public cloud solutions

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How to find out which active directory site a computer is in

jayb — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 21:52:50 +0000

I was working with our Desktop architect on system center config manager 2012 and we are using AD sites and services to determined which distribution point to pull updates from.
The process wasn’t working so we were troubleshooting and she asked which AD site my computer was in, I knew what it should be but I wanted an easy way to findout what which site my computer that it was in.

The command is

nltest /dsgetsite

if you want to know about a remote machine you use

nltest /server:machine_name /dsgetsite

it doesn’t have to be a a server that’s just the switch.

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How to view a Mac Outlook mailbox with MS Outlook in a Windows System?

Steve Smith — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 17:46:45 +0000

Outlook for Mac is an email client designed by Microsoft Inc. This program can be installed on Mac devices and supports multiple tasks such as email messaging, file storage and calendaring. Emails, attachments and other data of Outlook for Mac user are saved in OLM files in the hard disk.

OLM to PST migration and its benefits

OLM to PST migration means export of Mac Outlook mailbox to MS Outlook of Windows drive. MS Outlook for Windows save emails and other data of its user in PST file. There are numerous benefits of Mac Outlook to MS Outlook conversion:

MS Outlook is a user friendly email client and runs on MS Windows platform, which is more secured than Macintosh and other operating systems
Email storage capacity of Outlook PST file is higher than OLM file of Mac Outlook
MS Outlook includes inbuilt repair tool to fix minor corruption issues of mailbox data
Emails and attachments stored in PST file can be compressed or protected with Password

Third Party email migration tool

Mac Outlook does not have inbuilt option for OLM to PST migration. You must use a third party email converter such as OLM to PST migration to export Outlook mailbox from Mac to Window Drive.

OLM to PST migration software successfully extracts email folders such as emails, contacts, calendars, drafts, sent items, deleted items and tasks from OLM file. Extracted email folders are then exported by the software to PST file in local Windows drive. OLM to PST converter can successfully export several Mac Outlook mailboxes of an Exchange Server to MS Outlook in single cycle. This software also allows user to save extracted OLM data in other file formats such as .EML, .MSG and .DBX.

Outlook Today – Microsoft Outlook (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

OLM to PST migration utility fully maintains text formatting and email properties intact in converted files. The software is equipped with simple graphical interfaces and any one can use it without technical guidance or supervision. It shows all migrated Mac Outlook mailboxes in a preview list before saving in MS Outlook or Outlook Express. One can evaluate the key functions of the software with its evaluation version. The free version allows user to convert first 10 emails from each folder of OLM file. You must use licensed version to export all emails of OLM file to MS Outlook.

Article Summary

Mac Outlook supports email messaging and other functions on Mac operating system. It stores emails, contacts, tasks and other mailbox data of Mac user in OLM file. OLM to PST migration such as expanded email storage capacity of PST file. However, you cannot export Outlook mailbox from Mac OS to MS Outlook in Window drive manually. Therefore, you should choose a proficient OLM to PST migration tool that successfully exports Mac Outlook mailbox to MS Outlook.

Author’s Bio

Steve Smith is an experienced writer and has written several articles on the email migration software. In this write-ups, he has mentioned about Outlook client for Mac users and Mac Outlook to MS Outlook conversion process. Besides, he has also mentioned specific features of OLM to PST migration tool.

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Who’s the Geekiest?

My blog Guest — Thu, 01 Nov 2012 18:42:41 +0000

The Battle of the Geeks is upon us! Who’ll take home the title? The obvious contender is the Ubergeek – you know the one. He’s the guy with taped-up glasses, coding in one of his 5 computer languages on one of his multiple Linux builds.

But wait – don’t discount the other geeks! What about the Star Wars geek, who’s worn out his VHS copy of Return of the Jedi from too much rewinding? Or his archenemy, the Trekkie geek. Don’t you dare suggest that he watch Avatar – he’s only in to “hard” science fiction.

Of course, if you really want to dive deep into geekdom, you’ll need to look beyond the obvious. What about the pop culture geek, who’s been keeping up with the Kardashians before they even got on TV? Or the craft geek who knows the secret art of hot gluing something without burning all your fingers off?

So who are you rooting for in the Battle of the Geeks? Look below to see who you’ll be backing in this Battle Royale (that’s a film geek reference, for those not in the know).

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