Free ebook: Microsoft System Center: Configuration Manager Field Experience

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft System Center: Configuration Manager Field Experience (ISBN 9780735683044) by Rushi Faldu, Manish Raval, Brandon Linton, Kaushal Pandey and the System Center series editor Mitch Tulloch, is now available. DOWNLOADS Download the  PDF here Download the companion content here Download Read More …

Free ebook: Microsoft System Center: Troubleshooting Configuration Manager

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft System Center: Troubleshooting Configuration Manager (ISBN 9780735683020) by Rushi Faldu, Manoj Kumar Pal, Andre Della Monica, Kaushal Pandey, and the System Center series editor Mitch Tulloch, is now available.  DOWNLOADS Download the PDF here Download the Mobi file for Read More …

Free ebook: Microsoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft System Center: Cloud Management with App Controller by Yung Chou and Keith Mayer, and the System Center series editor Mitch Tulloch, is now available. DOWNLOADS Download the  PDF here Download the Mobi file for Kindle here Download the ePub Read More …

Free ebook: Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2

Reading Time: < 1 minuteMicrosoft released a new free ebook – Introducing Microsoft System Center 2012 R2 by Mitch Tulloch with Symon Perriman and the System Center Team. Well at least couple of chapters are there 🙂 DOWNLOAD LINKS Download the  PDF – here Read More …

Exchange 2010 & 2013 Active/Passive Database IOPS Reduction

Reading Time: 3 minutesAs you can see, Microsoft has made a tremendous number of improvements with the way that Exchange Server manages it’s storage in DAG environments. Passive database copies generates fewer IOPS (a 50% reduction), and failover happens more quickly than ever Read More …

Exchange 2013: Activate Your Exchange Receive Connector

Reading Time: < 1 minuteVery small video, just showing which default connector you should active in your Exchange 2013 organization. All you have to do is to browse through the different receive connector, double click on it and save, and that would do the Read More …

Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnother exchange based post for calculating the bandwidth requirement for the exchange clients. Link follows: Donload the excel file: http://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/exchange/Exchange-Client-Network-8af1bf00/file/49302/4/Exchange%20Client%20Network%20Bandwidth%20Calculator%20-%20Public.0.48BETA4%20-%20TimeZone.v5.xlsx This is an excel file bearing 288KB of data.

Exchange 2013 Server Role Requirements Calculator v6.1

Reading Time: < 1 minuteToo many people have been asking me for the calculator, and I am tired of sending it by mails. now here is it. Quoting from the site “Microsoft has released the Exchange 2013 Mailbox Server Role Requirements Calculator long back Read More …

How To Create an Autodiscover Record for Exchange Server 2013/2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst, an Autodiscover record is created in DNS to help mail clients connect to users to their respective mailboxes, as simple as that. Elaboration follows: Why do you need it? All you have to do is create an Autodiscover record. Read More …

Count Email Addresses per Mailbox

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRecently I’ve been struggling to find out how many users are there in a single mailbox…the following worked great after spending 4 hour of time…..wasted…due to lack of knowledge…anyway thought I should share this so that it might save time Read More …

Get All Active Email Addresses on Exchange Server 2013/2010/2007

Reading Time: 2 minutesFriend of mine asked me if I can help him out with his Exchange Server 2013 so that he can find out how many active email addresses are there, and can we produce a list of it or not. So Read More …

New hyper-v Online resize virtual hard disk in Windows Server 2012 R2

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe new Generation 2 Hyper-V that comes with Windows Server 2012 R2 having an extended feature rich capabilities. The summary follows: Feature or functionality New or updated Shared virtual hard disk New Resize virtual hard disk Updated Storage Quality of Read More …

Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 R2 Preview Installation (PDF)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd here is the file I have distributed earlier to my friends of net-workers. This pdf file explains the Installation of Active Directory, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012 and finally step by step installation of the Syctem Center Configuration Read More …

Issue an SSL Certificate (PKI) for Exchange Server 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesPrimarily we can configure our AD to offer Certificates by installing the PKI infrastructure. This way we can configure the Root CA and have it configured to deploy for Exchange Server 2013. For internal purpose this is a common criteria Read More …

System Center Configuration Manager Company Portal App

Reading Time: 2 minutesQuoting from the web “The System Center Configuration Manager Company Portal app allows users of Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 machines to view and install applications made available to the user by their administrators. The machine must be managed by Read More …

Lync Server 2013 Capacity Calculator

Reading Time: < 1 minuteHello folks, this is just a small post and is about Lync Server 2013 where you will need these tools for planning and sizing Lync 2013. People been asking about these files and here are the links. There is dedicated files that Read More …

USB Access to Generation 2 Hyper-V Method 2 (Enhanced Session Mode)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new training video has been uploaded in YouTube @ my channel. The Link for the video @ YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klzhkzJMW0I This video demonstrates how to access host machine resources like a USB thumb drive, portable mass storage etc. This process Read More …

What’s Discontinued in Exchange 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLink to the excel file: Discontinued Features of Exchange Couple of my friends were asking for the features that were discontinued in Exchange 2013….and here is the list of it. This is just a screenshot; the link to the excel Read More …

Exchange 2003 Support in Outlook 2013

Reading Time: 2 minutesMany friends of the networkers were asking me this question, why can’t outlook 2013 fetch mails from Exchange 2003 Server? While my Android/iOS can? As a techie you can understand that there are various reson’s for it, but cannot explain Read More …

Outlook 2013: OST Cache Behavior

Reading Time: 4 minutesPeople been asking me about their version of Outlook 2013 Experience, and seeking explanations of Outlooks formations regarding Offline Storage files, which has OST extension. Allow me to explain that a bit. The new OST is much smaller than the Read More …

Datacenter Civil Works / Office Setup

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOfficeSetup- Data-center-edited-final This file contains all electrical work, civil, and construction leads. I have been developing this long back since 2002. And I still am using it, updating as requirements pours in. (Ignore the spelling mistakes) Screen-Shot follows:

Technical Specification or BOM of a DataCenter – Template

Reading Time: < 1 minuteNow this is a must have tool where the techies, need to lineup business requirements, which in turns aligns IT backbone requirements. It’s a four sheet layout culminating  to a final BOM. Final page screenshot is provided. This file is Read More …

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview: Enable Active Directory Recycle Bin

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis is rather small video. Describes how to enable the Active Directory Recycle Bin under Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2. And how to restore deleted items from the Active Directory Administrative Center. Moderate workaround is shown. The Link for the Read More …

Software Implementation RoadMAP – A Four Year Plan

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis excel (Soft-ImplementationRoadMap–V-4) file took me a long time to prepare. As I was helping out people of same sort (IT), were looking for something like this….to check and balance their progresses in a Yes/No format and all those software’s Read More …

IT RoadMap Planning

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe following file I’ve been using for long time, have a look, it might help you out a bit….the biig and the new one will be posted in another post. Search for the “Soft-ImplementationRoadMap–V-4”, this file is seriously important can Read More …

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 (Visual Only)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new video is uploaded to my YouTube channel few hours back. The Exchange Server 2013 Preview Installation is somewhat recorded earlier with some presence of friends. Audio is omitted because we were chatting about features of Exchange Server 2013 Read More …