Exchange 2007: Powershell - Change user's reply address

I need to change the reply(primary) address of all users in a specific OU.

 

In this article a powershell script that gets the job done.

Windows 2008: Add iSCSI LUN

This is very easy when using Windows 2008 because it has an iSCSI initiator enabled by default.
First make sure that the LUN is being presented by our storage device, how to do this depends on which iSCSI target device is being used.

Here is my guide for adding an iSCSI LUN on Windows 2008......

Windows 2008: Storage Management with FSRM Part 1

To free up some space on the SAN I decided to do some storage management and initiated a cleanup project,  scope is data being not accessed for more then 1 year or longer. In this article I describe how I achieve this using Windows 2008 File Server Rescource Manager.

First of all , and that is what this part is about,  I need to determine if this project makes sense or in other words; How many extra free space is there to achieve and will it be worth the effort....

SCCM 2007: Only show Required Updates

In the Software Update search folders SCCM 2007 always shows updates which aren't required by any host in your environment.

Here's a quick howto so only required updates with a minimum of 1 are showed in the search folders.

SCCM 2007: Exclude updates from search folder

Every month there is a monthly maintenance evening when updates are applied to our Windows servers. A time consuming job is to check the search folder and exclude updates which gave errors on earlier scheduled maintenance days.This is not a basic functionality in SCCM 2007 but a custom trick can do the job to automaticly exclude these updates from the Software Update search folders.

SSH Public Key authentication

In an earlier article I described how to secure your SSH server and ended the artice with the promise to describe how to setup SSH Public key authentication.

VMWare vSphere 5: Orphaned VM

For a while now an orphaned VM is in the VM list of an ESXi 5.0 host on our VMWare HA cluster, how it got there? Nobody knows :)

Secure SSH on Centos/RedHat 6

Anyone who uses Linux and needs to manage servers or workstations will use SSH.
In this article I will describe how I limit and secure SSH access to my RedHat/CentOS Linux servers.

Exchange 2007: Multiple users complain about Out of Office assistant not turning off

After applying some updates to our Exchange mailbox servers, serveral user complain about the Out of Office assistant not being turned off. Outlook says it is turned of, but people report that Out of Office reply still triggered when sending mail. Time to troubleshoot....