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Exchange 2010/2013 - Get-MailboxStatistics TotalItemSize in Numeric Format
To get a list of all mailboxes and their sizes, the following command produces this information.Get-Mailbox | Get-MailboxStatistics | select-object DisplayName,TotalItemSizeHowever the data outputted...
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New Database Created - Couldn't mount the database that you specified
This is a common problem in Exchange 2010 which I have seen multiple times so I have decided to blog it. When creating a new mailbox database, directly after mailbox creation you might receive the...
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Windows Server 2012 WSUS Server Not Downloading Updates
I had just configured a brand new Windows Server 2012 WSUS Server however a problem was experienced where the server was not downloading updates. It was a freshly deployed WSUS Server which was...
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IE 10 Prompting for credentials - Windows Authentication
Today I responded to a customer who has an internal intranet. The customer has no issues accessing the intranet page from IE7, IE8, or IE9 - However when upgrading to Internet Explorer 10, the users...
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Internet Explorer 9 Local HTML Files - Do you want to save this file?
A customer of mine just deployed Internet Explorer 9 to their workstations through WSUS. After rolling out Internet Explorer 9 whenever html files were executed from the local computer users were...
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Right Clicking on Files and Folders makes Windows 7 Hang
I had a customer today in which whenever they right clicked on My Computer, Folders or Files on Windows 7 the entire explorer process would hang. After diagnosing this issue it turned out that a bad...
View ArticleASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Wireless Problems
I recently purchased a ASUS RT-N66U Dark Knight Wireless to replace an under performing all in one router/modem/wireless hotspot provided by Bigpond Internet here in Australia. The ASUS RT-N66U was...
View ArticleCan I rename an Exchange 2013 Server?
Just a quick post...A question I have been asked a few times recently is "Can I rename an Exchange 2013 Server?".The answer is no, Exchange 2013 does not support renaming server names after the...
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What is the NTDS Quotas container in Active Directory?
In Active Directory there is a container called NTDS Quotas which is visible in the Active Directory Users and Computers. In this blog post we are going to explore what it is and its use within Active...
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Changing a Forgotton Root Password in Linux
I built a Linux server a few months ago for monitoring purposes for a customer, however I failed to write the root password down - doh! In this post I will be showing you how to change the root...
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How to determine number of users connected to CAS Server?
I received an email today from someone asking me how to determine the number of users logged onto a CAS server so I decided to blog the answer. There is a Powershell command to identify the number of...
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How to view the NAT Translation Table on a Cisco Router
To view the NAT translation table on a Cisco router to ensure it is not overloaded, the command you want to use is:"show ip nat translation"Run this command from enable mode. This command is useful...
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SQL 2012 Not Listening on TCP1433
Previous releases of Microsoft SQL such as 2008 R2 use to listen on TCP1433 for incoming SQL traffic. Now in SQL Server 2012, TCP1433 is no longer utilised. This can be shown using the netstat...
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How to Change SQL Instance Collation
In this post I am going to show you how to change SQL 2012 database collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS, the requirement for System Centre Configuration Manager (SCCM) 2012. Changing database...
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Limit the Amount of Memory used by an SQL Instance
By Default, an instance of SQL will attempt to use every free MB of memory it can get its hands on. This is by design, the more database records available in memory, the lower the disk I/O activity....
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Where is the System Centre Configuration Manager Console on Windows Server 2012?
You have just installed SCCM 2012 on a new Windows Server 2012 computer having configured SQL, installed various components from the Assessment and Deployment Kit and a few other pre-requisites. Now...
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You can not import this boot image. Only finalized boot images are supported....
Using System Centre Configuration Manager with SP1 when attempting to add the Windows 7 with SP1 boot image "boot.wim" from the sources folder on a Windows 7 media which was copied to my SCCM server, I...
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SCCM 2012 sp1 0xc000000f PXE Error
I was having an issue with SCCM 2012 SP1 with a PXE boot problem. When workstations attempt to boot from my SCCM 2012 deployment point they receive the following error:RecoveryYour PC needs to be...
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PXE Boot aborted. Booting to next device...
The following error was experienced when performing a PXE boot from a newly installed SCCM 2012 SP1 server.Architecture: x64 The details below show the information relating to the PXE boot request for...
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Windows PE cannot start because the actual SYSTEMROOT directory (X:\Windows)...
I ran into the following error message on a new SCCM 2012 SP1 server using the default boot.wim files which come on the Windows 8 installation media.Windows PE cannot start because the actual...
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