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July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Deleting ghost domain controllers

run adsiedit navigate to: In the below example sitename and servername is the server you’re deleting. configurationcn=configurationcn=sitescn=<sitename>cn=serverscn=<servername> Right click on cn=ntds settings and select delete Once […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Transfer FSMO or flexible single master operations roles

Open command prompt type ntdsutil type roles type connections type the name of the server in which you wish to transfer the roles to connect to […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Preparing a Windows 2000 domain for Windows 2003 DC's

On the schema master insert the Windows Server 2003 disk and go to the command prompt. d:i386adprep /forestprep On each domain in y0ur forest find your […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

What functional level must my domain be at to install Exchange 2007

You must be running at a functional level of Widnows 2000 native or Windows 2003. This does not mean you cannot have NT 4.0 servers. It […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Sending an email with Powershell

$SmtpServer = “yourServer” $From = me@N2NetworkSolutions.com if ($args.Length -lt 1) { $To = Engineers@N2NetworkSolutions.com } else { $to = $args[0] } $subject = “Need […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

WhatIf and Confirm Parameters

If you find yourself in Exchange Managment Shell and y0u want to know what a commands reprecutions are before you run it use the -whatIf paramater. […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

EMS and pipeing can be very powerful

Pipelining in Exchange Management Shell can be very powerful. For instance if you do this command get-mailbox | where-object { $_.name -like “john*” } | set-Mailbox […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Backing up and restoring Edge Transport

In the c:Program filesMicrosoftExchange ServerScripts directory there exists a powershell script called ExportEdgeConfig.ps1. You can backup your Edge Transport by executing the following command From Exchange […]

July 13, 2009

Published by jeremy.whittaker at July 13, 2009

Safelist Aggregation in Outlook 2003 and 2007

There is a feature of Exchange 2007 that allows users to copy their whitelist of approved senders, recipients, domains, and external contacts to the Edge Transport […]