Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview: USB Access to Generation 2 Hyper V

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis video demonstrates how to access a USB thumb drive or a Hard Drive from within a VM running on Hyper-V on Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview version.   YouTube Link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzCIcTb1p1s

Things to consider if you want to run Outlook 2003 to fetch mails from Exchange Server 2010

Reading Time: 2 minutesHello folks, today we will be discussing some items regarding to Outlook 2003; when you tend to fetch your mails from an organization that’s running Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 or higher. There are some issues to bear in mind and Read More …

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview: Hyper-V Manager & Virtual Machine Installation

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThis video tutorial shows you how to install the Hyper-V Manager, Create a Virtual Switch for your VM NIC, and then Install Windows Server 2012 R2 Preview as a VM into the Hyper-V. YouTube Link for the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5935LURHNEo

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Installation on Windows Server 2012

Reading Time: 6 minutesSo, what are you waiting for? Let’s Start Installing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013! It is understood that you have already installed Windows Server 2012, and promoted the server as a domain controller, and the DC needs to be the Global Read More …

How to Create a Send Connector in Microsoft Exchange 2013

Reading Time: 3 minutesHello folks, today we will discuss about how to create a send mail connector in Exchange Server 2013. By the name of the connector you might have the idea that what it actually does? Well, very simple, it creates a Read More …

Disable Microsoft Exchange Stale Accounts with PowerShell (Mailbox)

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIn organizations where too many accounts were setup, and ExAdmins’ primary job to keep the accounts neat and tidy, and this is a handy tool for these admins to find out the stale accounts and disable them and finally in Read More …

Microsoft Exchange Server 2013: Get User Mobile Device Statistics

Reading Time: 2 minutesEver wondered what types of smart phones or handheld devices are connecting to your Exchange Server? Well, there are some options that we can use to get our desired information. The Get-MobileDeviceStatistics Cmdlet just does what we require. In Exchange Read More …

Create A White-list in Microsoft Exchange 2007,2010 or Exchange 2013 Server

Reading Time: 2 minutesAs the heading says, I am going to create a white-list for the exchange server, regardless of it’s versions, starting from 2k7 and onwards 😉 We can achieve this by using a simple process and running certain commands in the Read More …

Active Directory (Windows Server 2012): User’s Last Login Data

Reading Time: 2 minutesNetAdmin’s gets tired of the request from operations to get the last logon time for a particular user time and time again. And the job is sometimes tiresome and monotonous. Network Administrator’s normally uses the “lastlogontimestamp” on daily basis to Read More …

Microsoft Security Response Readiness Assessment

Reading Time: 2 minutesQuoting from the Site: The Security Response Readiness Assessment is based on best practices in software security incident response developed at Microsoft and provides:        An assessment of your current software security incident processes. Recommended strategic initiatives you can put in Read More …

Community Connect: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Technical Overview Deep Dive

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAnd as you can imagine this event is organized by Microsoft for the EPG accounts, where I took a long session for Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Technical Deep Dive session. From left to Right: Sabeel, Me, Mallick, Asif And the audience Read More …

Creating a First Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Domain Controller

Reading Time: 7 minutesHello folks, and welcome back to a dissertation for a domain controller that we will be creating under Microsoft Windows Server 2012. Creating a Domain Controller which will hold all of your organization information regarding users, computers and other devices Read More …

Windows Server 2012: Creating a NIC TEAM for Load Balancing and Failover Configuration by PowerShell

Reading Time: 3 minutesHello folks, hope you guys are doing great with your busy schedule. Today I am going to talk about NIC Teaming, and how to configure that using PowerShell. So, first select you server on the Server Manager right click on Read More …

Create Bulk Mailboxes in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 & 2013

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA fast process we require to do often;  to create multiple mailboxes at one go… And the Script Follows: (Study the script please for your future growth) $numberofMailboxes = Read-Host “Enter the Number of Mailboxes you want”  $EnterPrefix = Read-Host “Enter the Prefix of the Account”  $GettingPassword = Read-Host “Enter the Password for the accounts”  $Password = Convertto-SecureString “$GettingPassword” -Asplaintext -Force  $GettingEmailSuffix = “((Get-AcceptedDomain)[0]).Name”  $mail = “@”+”$GettingEmailSuffix”  For($i=0;$i -le $numberofMailboxes;$i++)  {  $UPN = “$EnterPrefix”+”$i”+”$mail”  $Name = “$EnterPrefix”+”$i”  New-Mailbox -Name $Name -Alias $Name -UserPrincipalName $Upn -Password $Password  } And Read More …

Single Exchange Server Environment: Re-Create A PowerShell Virtual Directory

Reading Time: 2 minutesDO IT IN A LAB ENVIRONMENT FIRST….ALWAYS TEST Effected Machine: Exchange Server 2010 In this blog I will show you how to recreate Powershell Virtual Directory in a Single Exchange Server Environment. We need to create this Powershell Virtual Directory when Read More …

A New Frontier for Exchange Server 2013 Keys and Licensing

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA new release of Microsoft Exchange is available right now, though it was released couple of weeks back. The editions are: Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Enterprise Edition (can store up to 50 Databases per server) Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Standard Edition Read More …

Re-Initialize BitLocker Encryption After Changing BIOS Information

Reading Time: < 1 minuteI believe some of you already gone through this but this small workaround is for the people who is looking for a quick relief. When a computer BIOS is updated or the switches changed in the BIOS config; the BitLocker Read More …