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Installing 64 bit print drivers on a 32 bit Windows 2003 R2 print server
Our print server at work is running the 32 bit version of Windows 2003 R2. Most of our desktop clients are now running the 64 bit version of Vista or Windows 7. Some of the printers on the server are using HP’s universal print driver and herein lies my issue. Apparently these universal drivers are [...]
Group Policy computer settings not applied to Windows 7 Computers
We started moving a few people to Windows 7 this week and I discovered that none of the computers were getting the computer GPO settings applied. My company tends to keep domain computers in the default AD “Computers” container. It appears that Windows 7 computers left in the default “Computers” container will not recieve the [...]
Adding aliases to Distribution Groups using Powershell
On several occasions at work I have been asked to add email aliases to distribution groups for testing purposes. Depending on how many you have to add, in my case 30 or more, doing this through the exchange systems manager just won’t do. I mean, what self respecting systems engineer is going to copy and [...]
Printers Offline in Windows 2003 Server R2 SP2
Hello everyone, We finally upgraded our print servers to SP2 and had a problem. I banged my head with it for about one hour and thought it would be worth reporting the solution since it’s a potential problem for others: Symptomes: Some network printers published by a Windows 2003 SP2 server will be marked as [...]
Internal transport certificate has expired – Exchange 2007
Recently after installing systems center essentials 2007 and pushing the agent to our exchange servers I started getting an alert that the “Internal transport certificate has expired” This certificate is crucial to the communications and transport of mail from/to the edge and hub transport servers, without it you stop recieving email. Thanks to SCE I [...]
Vista on a MacBook Pro with VMWare Fusion 2.0
I have really been trying hard to use a MacBook Pro (Intel) as my primary laptop at work. Being a network engineer in an all Windows environment has made this transition a very frustrating one to say the least. My main source of frustration has been performance, or lack thereof, of the Windows virtual machines [...]
Mailbox size GUI script for Exchange 2007
This is an amazingly good script that I found while searching google looking for a way to get mailbox details in a readable format using the powershell. Click on the link below to get the details. Many thanks to the poster, Glen Scales, for sharing his extensive knowledge on the subject of Exchange development and [...]
