August 2006 - Posts
My buddy Brett asked me about this a few weeks ago and I never managed to get to him .. sorry buddy! So I decided to come back to everyone. After playing with powershell a bit you get an idea of the power you have. So something that really makes it rock
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Now this shows the power of Windows Powershell! Source: http://www.leeholmes.com/blog/PermaLink,guid,4033cc3a-98f3-4ee6-a846-c1831bd2dd11.aspx Humm, but I have having some “issues” with this, but you get the ideas!
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Jim has produced a list of “stuff” to monitor on your Exchange 2003 server. Check it out: http://mostlyexchange.blogspot.com/2006/08/exchange-monitoring-hit-list.html Check this out too, for the list of things MOM will monitor! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=2215eeab-41d7-423d-9f54-01f0df4647e9&displaylang=e
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This is a good script from Ben Source: http://winzenz.blogspot.com/2006/08/creating-new-mailbox-using-powershell.html Check the blog for more details, but the script is here: $password = Read-Host "Enter password" -AsSecureString New-mailbox -UserPrincipalName
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Greenpeace as compiled a list of the leading mobile & PC manufactures and how environmentally unfriendly that are! http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/toxics/electronics/how-the-companies-line-up This Green Electronics Guide ranks leading
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Looking good! Do you think they will sell many of the “brown” ones? Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/25/toshiba_ms_zune_details/ The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has approved a Toshiba-made digital media player that
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Now this is a cool tool … Another one from Bruce Read the comments at the end Bruce’s post, they make very interesting reading! The original website is in french: http://www.secuobs.com/news/07062006-sstic_usbdumper.shtml but bablefish does
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Check it out now Funk Soul Brother. source: http://sapien.eponym.com/blog/_archives/2006/8/24/2262158.html Basically its search engine especially for looking for scripts .. it rocks! check it out: http://www.searchscripting.com
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Bruce Schneier pointed me to this. Check it out, it made me laugh … and cry Source: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/privacy/0,71622-0.html I quite like #7. Discovery of data on used hard drives for sale and #2. AT&T lets the NSA listen to
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Not many people pay any attention to what I do, but it’s good when you start getting credit from people that do. I posted Exchange 2007 Powershell: Get-Tip a while back and Mr Exchange PowerShell himself picked it up … Thanks Vivek http://www.viveksharma.com/techlog/2006/08/20/blog-hiatus-or-how-to-really-enjoy-your-summer
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How cool is this! … The linux source is included too! Source: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun. … Then the internet
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What will they come up with next. Source: http://www.thesexysociety.com/iGroove_Panty_for_iPod_nano_p/dg2006gwp.htm So techie chic! Perfect for those of us who love to lounge around in sexy undies all day AND have our music! Black lace panty with pink
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Every day is a school day! Now i use ExBPA almost everyday in one way or another, but I didn’t know about some of the other ones. Check it out! Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration (ISA) Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=d22ec2b9-4cd3-4bb6-91ec-0829e5f84063&DisplayLang=en
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Oh, oh, oh my name in lights! and 2 more parts of this to come! Source: http://msexchangeteam.com/archive/2006/08/28/428776.aspx … Exchange 2003 servers can benefit from an Active Directory design that utilizes site architecture to isolate Exchange.
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Okay so the time has come .. I installed Community Server on to a virtual server image over the weekend and guess what .. this is it up and running!
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Catchy name! CUV1647. Basically they plant an implant under your skin, and it triggers melanin, which hopfully will give you 3 months of a tan! http://www.clinuvel.com.au/IRM/content/products_products_cuv1647.htm Alpha-Melanocyte stimulating hormone (
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Doh! I know a few customers with stuff here! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/17/telehouse_power_problems/ … We have a power distribution problem within the Telehouse TFM 6 room from approximateley 08:18 this morning. One of the 2 power
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This did make ma laugh. These guys are part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtravel/prohibited/new-items.shtm The article talks about Prohibited Items items allowed on a plane. This paragraph made me laugh We
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Just found this and thought I would share it! http://www.microsoft.com/learning/exchange2007/default.mspx Check it out! Two free e-learning clinics valued at US$99 – Participants can sign up for one or both of the free clinics. – Offer expires
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You know if you start the Exchange Management Shell, it gives you a “tip”. Well it would seem that it has 80 of them! So I thought it would be good to list them all out You can just type get-tip in the Exchange Management Shell, but if you
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Sunil pointed me to some of these links .. very very handy … and Now I WANT one! What is interesting, as you can read below, is that two variants of the device exist, the HERM100 and HERM200. You can see more details on the differences here: http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Versions
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Ooops! See I told you so! http://blogs.flaphead.dns2go.com/archive/2006/06/22/3432.aspx Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4793143.stm The world's largest manufacturer of personal computers, Dell, is to recall 4.1 million of its notebook computer
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Okay as a beginner this took a bit of time to perfect so here goes. For some of you hardened programmers this might be a bit basic, but I had to start somewhere. My background is cmd and vbs files with some html chucked in, so this syntax is new to me
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Oh dear. Research in Motion's Blackberry technology has quickly become the defacto standard for executives and technical personnel alike to maintain unteathered remote access to critical data. Often regarded as inherently secure, most administrators deploy
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I didn’t know this existed, so I thought I would share it! Source: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/895092 This article describes the hotfixes and the updates that we recommend that you install on each node of a Microsoft Windows Server 2003-based
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This is fun, your xbox 360 can actually blog!?! http://www.360voice.com/ Let see what happens: http://www.360voice.com/rss.aspx?tag=flaphead
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So I have thought about it for a while, Solar power or wind power? The UK Government have our grants last year, but by the time I started looking around it was all gone. Now they have given £10m to Joe Public in grants, so I thought I would have
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oh, oh, oh … Source: http://shop.orange.co.uk/shop/show/handset/orange_spv_m3100/detail/pay_monthly It has made it up onto Orange’s Website, the New SPV M3100. It’s like an I-Mate JAMin but witha keyboard .. very, very nice It has a
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Found this and thought it worthy of sharing. http://www.sapien.com/download.aspx?file=pshhelp You will download PowerShellHelpSetup.exe . Once installed it will plonk itself under C:\Program Files\SAPIEN Technologies, Inc\PowerShellHelp you will find
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It uses the same engine as ExBPA, and has an added wizard engine. Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=4bdc1d6b-de34-4f1c-aeba-fed1256caf9a&DisplayLang=en The Exchange Troubleshooting Assistant programmatically executes
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It would seem that ExBPA picked up an issue when it was run against R2, and when they dug deeper they found a few more issues and pull it :-| Source: http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1995944,00.asp?kc=MWRSS02129TX1K0000535 Microsoft is recalling
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Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/02/eds_offshore/ EDS is to move up to 15,000 jobs to cheaper locations over the next "couple of years", according to the company's CEO Michael Jordan, bringing the total number of "offshore" employees to around
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Okay so I am joining the craze and I wanted to start with a list of resources I have discovered so far: Blog of Windows PowerShell team: http://blogs.msdn.com/powershell/ Windows PowerShell ScriptCenter: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/hubs/msh.mspx
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Doh Source: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_140292.htm MSH/Cibyz!p2p is a proof of concept worm written in Windows Powershell script. It attempts to spread via the popular peer to peer application KaZaa by dropping a copy of itself in its shared folders.
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Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/08/01/zune_specs_design_mock-up/ Microsoft's first Zune-branded device will launch in the US just ahead of the Thanksgiving break, rumour-mongers are claiming on the web. Oh, and it's going to have a 60GB hard
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This put a smile on my face! Source: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/07/26/10_gadgets_to_get_yousacked/print.html It's hot, your boss is evil, you never got that promised pay-rise. It's hot, your colleagues hate you, and you're fed up with sardine-like
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Source: http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~110899,00.html NEW YORK -- July 24, 2006 -- AMD (NYSE: AMD) and ATI (TSX: ATY, NASDAQ: ATYT) today announced plans to join forces in a transaction valued at approximately $5.4 billion.
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Source: http://www.insight.com/site/static/investor_relations.cfm TEMPE, Ariz.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 20, 2006--Insight Enterprises Inc. (NASDAQ: NSIT) ("Insight" or the "company") today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire
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Oh, oh, oh, oh … good tool this! HOWEVER, read but, download from this location ONLY, as the other location is out of date! ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/PSS/Tools/Exchange%20Support%20Tools/MPSReports/MPSRPT_Exchange.zip The Microsoft Product Support
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OnDemand TechNet Webcast: Guided Hands-On: Using the Exchange Server 2007 Management Console and Shell (Level 200) http://www.microsoft.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?CMTYSvcSource=MSCOMMedia&Params=%7eCMTYDataSvcParams%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ID%22+Value%3d%221032304349%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22ProviderID%22+Value%3d%22A6B43178-497C-4225-BA42-DF595171F04C%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22lang%22+Value%3d%22en%22%2f%5e%7earg+Name%3d%22cr%22+Value%3d%22US%22%2f%5e%7esParams%5e%7e%2fsParams%5e%7e%2fCMTYDataSvcParams%5e
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Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples July 2006 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=32774e09-4984-458e-bdb7-ed2bb356bd27&DisplayLang=en The Exchange Server 2003 SDK Documentation and Samples assist developers building
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Ohh you get a word doc and some code! Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=0cd7f344-cad6-416e-9bc1-0d7c214e1d0b&DisplayLang=en This technical article and sample event sinks assist developers in creating SMTP and Transport
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You have a PPT, DOC and audio (in MP3 or WMA) Source: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=67c06122-17b2-4268-9f71-a583ff7d5e17&DisplayLang=en Detailed discussion describing how Microsoft IT uses Exchange Server 2003 SP2 and Windows
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More docs for you! User Guide for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01f9aad4-afbc-49ae-a2f9-00518c5eb2f6&DisplayLang=en
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Yeah okay I know I might be a bit late on the old band wagon, but here you are: Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Beta 2 Help http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=555f5974-9258-475a-b150-0399b133fede&DisplayLang=en Microsoft Exchange
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Ohh they are going to sell the StrTrk! Source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/07/17/orange_smartphones_revealed/ Orange's upcoming smart phones got an airing this weekend, revealing the carrier will be bringing Samsung's QWERTY keyboard-equipped, 3G-connected
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Humm, nice Source: http://www.smartphonethoughts.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=75563 … Last week we told you about a rumored new HTC Smartphone that has a QWERTY keyboard like the Motorola Q or the Samsung i320. This morning, I was very surprised
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