Author: jbmurphy
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Retention Policies in Exchange 2010
I have to say that retention policies in Exchange 2010 are a bit confusing. I understand that they are more powerful and it gives users more control in marking items that should not be purged. But, it is just easier in exchange 2003, you can select the folders you want and select “delete immediately”. For users created folders, you select…
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Scheduled PowerShell script to resume Mailbox Moves (New-MoveRequest)
Moving mailboxes from 2003 to 2010 is easy, but there is not a “Gui” to schedule it. So I created the following PowerShell script to find all the suspended MoveRequest(s) with the correct date, and resume them. MailboxMove.ps1: Next I create a scheduled task with the following command to run a script with the code…
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Force the Light Version of Exchange 2010 OWA on a Cisco ASA WebVPN with SSO
We have a Cisco ASA in front of our Exchange 2010 OWA application. We needed to create a “bookmark” to point to OWA. Since we are using Forms based authentication, we did not want users to have to re-login after just logging into the ASA. I found this link on how to setup the Bookmark…
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Fun with Toshiba IPT 2010 phones and NAT
We have a Toshiba phone system in our office. I don’t know much about it, because it is run by the very capable @mattsix, but today I jumped and did a little troubleshooting. The reoccurring issue we had, was that a remote phone would connect to the IPU, ring, but there would be no audio. We were…
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Just passed 70-662 : Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Configuring
Next up: 70-663
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BASH script to email if WordPress plugins or themes need updating
This one took me all day. But I got it. I wanted to have a script that could look through all WordPress sites and find if there are outdated themes or plugins. All I need to do is slap it into a cron job and I am good to go! Here is the BASH code…
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2000 visitors in 1 month. Nice!
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How the cloud failed me.
We host our Linux boxes on Rackspace’s Cloud Server platform. We pay extra per month to use their Redhat Linux images. In return we receive all our patches and updates through Rackspace’s RHN Satellite server. Our thinking was that, we could purchase a Redhat support contract, and since we were running Redhat we would have OS/Application support if needed. We…
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Adventures in Load Balancing: Kemp (@KempTech)
My current project is a migration from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010. We wanted to load balance our CAS servers and do some SSL offloading. I have never worked with a load balancer before – pretty cool stuff. We have been using a couple of Kemp 2600’s in an active passive configuration. The Kemp devices have…
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Windows Server 2008 persistent routes
I can never remember this, so I thought I would blog it route -p add XXX.XXX.XXX.0 mask 255.255.255.0 YYY.YYY.YYY.1 XXX = Network YYY = Gateway