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Diagnosing the Unknown Alias problem in SharePoint

My frustraition with a product that is, in theory, action packed, but faultering in execution continues - this time it is incoming email. A well behaved mail gateway should return a non-delivery receipt if it is unable to deliver email, it's common courtesy. SharePoint, both Windows SharePoint Services...
    by Colin

Importing Multiple Certificates

Through a recent migration we needed to move a large number of SSL certificates. After spending a lot of time exporting through the GUI we really did not feel like importing them by hand too. CertUtil came in hand to help us CertUtil.exe -importPFX domain.com-YYMMDD.pfx "NoExport,AT_KEYEXCHANGE"...
    by Colin

Compressing IIS and Windows Media Server Logs with PowerShell

The PowerShell Community Extensions Project shipped a Write-GZip cmdlet which made me think that it's time to re-write the trusty CompressLogFiles.vbs file I've been using for a while.  After grappling with the square brackets in the WMS [Global] folder I think I finally have a viable solution...
    by Colin

Locking Down DFS for Windows Firewall

Most system administrators are becoming acutely aware of port usage on their servers. The security focus is telling us we need to lock things down by default. Turning Windows Firewall on for your servers will certainly do that. For DFS there is some scattered documented things I wanted to share about...
    by Colin

BUG: Exchange Server 2007 rewrites Secondary Email Addresses when using POP3/IMAP

If you are using Exchange Server 2007 to receive mail addressed to multiple email addresses you might have noticed that when using POP3/IMAP that the address is not preserved. If you are running Exchange Server 2003 and have an application that depends on secondary email addressing take note. For example...
    by Colin

Is SharePoint really ready for prime time?

We have had a weird error crop again with Office SharePoint Server. This time it is crashing daily showing a generic Runtime Error message to the client and the following message to one of our applications calling into the web service: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Web.Services, Version...
    by Colin

Bumping the CD/DVD drive letter in Windows PE

While slogging through automating my development workstation build I found the need to have a script that bumps the CD/DVD drive letter allocations up one so I could put a partition in its place. It seems like a useful script for those situations where you might need it so I thought I would post it:...
    by Colin

Uncompressed Size a Series of GZip Files

We compress our log files using GZip. It does a heck of a job compressing at almost 95% average. Here's a note-to-self that others might find useful for use when trying to provide sizing information (e.g. when evaluating web analytics solutions): Run the following at a command prompt: FOR /R X:\...
    by Colin

Spiceworks has the upgrade process down pat.

Wow, that was a smooth upgrade. In fact it was probably one of the best I've seen in a while. I logged in, it told me there was an update, I clicked go, and it took care of the rest. If you aren't using Spiceworks for desktop management, you should really check it out, especially after the 1...
    by Colin

Chillin' at Energize IT

Are you at Energize IT in Toronto? If so, come find me and say hello! I'll be at the Ask the Experts both in the morning and the gadget track in the afternoon.
    by Colin
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