Essential Exchange

In March of 2006, I authored this blog post, Finding Services Using non-System Accounts , with the script being written in VBscript. Two years later, most of my environment is now in PowerShell. So, I've decided to update that post with the PowerShell equivalent. The VBscript version of the utility...

SSL stands for Secure Sockets Layer. As the Secure part of the name implies, the purpose behind SSL is to secure communications between a client browser (such as Internet Explorer or FireFox) and the server service with which the browser is communicating (which may be web browsing, IMAP, POP-3, etc....

Originally published in January of 2005, my blog post Exchange Server 2003 and Domain Controllers - A Summary has been the most searched-out article on my blog. While, with the release of Exchange Server 2007, the post is beginning to show it's age, the information contained in the article still...

I've been working with an increasing number of small business clients the last few months, as I work to grow my personal consulting business; along with a greater variety of enterprise clients. A very common problem - servers don't reboot. In the enterprise environments a few months ago, I was...

Some things are just very easy in PowerShell. It's great! Here is a true quickie - rename and reboot a computer system (including a remote computer!): function renameAndReboot([string]$computer, [string]$newname) { $comp = gwmi win32_computersystem -computer $computer $os = gwmi win32_operatingsystem...

Windows Vista service pack 1 is due "any time now". Various on-line blogs and articles are saying anywhere from February 1 to February 15, although Microsoft could wait all the way until the end of March and still meet their "Q1 2008" official time-line. Vista will be released via...

Microsoft is practically flooding us with service packs right now (similarly to the flooding that is going on in Washington state and Oregon this week!). As I earlier noted, Exchange 2007 service pack 1 is now released, and available here . For information about what is new in Exchange 2007 service pack...