Posted Friday, 27 June 2008 by Michael Khanin
If you are working with BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) you can get a problem, when users cannot send emails from their Blackberry. And, I guess you already familiar with a “Send As Permission” problem :).
So, I created a script, that allows set all neccesasry right to the BESADMIN account. When you run script, you should provide an OU, where the particular user exist and user’s email address.
NOTE: In my script I used linex.exe and dsacls.exe. Just use Google to download those very POWERFUL tools 
@echo off
SET Tools=C:\Tools
SET TEMP=C:\TMP
SET SOU=
SET BES=
SET ou4user=
SET BES-USER=
DSQUERY OU domainroot > %TEMP%\ou.txt
%Tools%\linex -n < %TEMP%\ou.txt
SET /p SOU=”Please type # of OU where the user located: “
SET /p BES=”Please type user’s email address: “
FOR /F “TOKENS=* delims==,OU” %%a in (’%Tools%\LINEX -l %SOU% ^<%TEMP%\OU.txt’) do set ou4user=%%~a
FOR /F “TOKENS=2 delims==,” %%a in (’dsquery * “%ou4user%” -attr mail distinguishedName^|find /i “%BES%”‘) do set BES-USER=%%~a
@echo “%BES-USER%”
dsacls “CN=%BES-USER%,%ou4user%” /G “%USERDOMAIN%\BESADMIN:GR”
dsacls “CN=%BES-USER%,%ou4user%” /G “%USERDOMAIN%\BESADMIN:CA;Send As”
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Posted Thursday, 26 June 2008 by Michael Khanin
Just recieved anonce about this and here it is:
"Today, Microsoft reaches a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization feature included in select versions of Windows Server 2008. Those who have already deployed the x64 versions of Windows Server 2008 can receive Hyper-V from Windows Update beginning July 8, while new customers and partners can download Hyper-V later today (12:00 pm PT). The Windows Virtualization team will be counting down the days to download from Windows Update, so be sure to visit the Windows Virtualization Team blog to see daily spotlights on specific features and benefits of Hyper-V technology, as well as to read about customer stories and see postings from guests.
Since the beta release of Hyper-V in February, more than 250 customers have participated in Hyper-V’s early adoption program. Microsoft’s own deployment and results with Hyper-V is showcased today in Rob Emanuel’s guest blog and video on the Windows Server Division blog, specifically on customers using Hyper-V and partner benefits, visit the Microsoft PressPass site."
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Posted Sunday, 22 June 2008 by Michael Khanin
I guess it's impossible to find IT person who doesn't know very old and at the same time very powerful program, NTBACKUP. For me, it a best program to backup and restore Windows systems, like NT, 2000, XP and 2003 :).
If you have an old backups that was made by NTBACKUP and you want to restore it on Windows Vista or Windows 2008 you can use recently released Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility.
If you have a reason ( I do) to use the old NTBACKUP program to do backup on Windows 2008 it's also possible, but I'll talk about how to do that in one of my next articles :).
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Posted Wednesday, 18 June 2008 by Michael Khanin
Scott Schnoll’s announced a new Microsoft plugin that will do Exchange VSS Backups on Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008’s new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn’t do Exchange backups out of the box.
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Posted Saturday, 07 June 2008 by Michael Khanin
Recently, on one Windows 2008 I've installed a Terminal Server Role and did a TS Web Apps. Really nice feature, you can get access to application through web interface, exactly how it's done on Citrix, but by using Windows 2008 you not requested to buy a Citrix ;). Yes, TS Web Apps from Windows 2008 is a nice, but to get access to this application, on a client side should be installed RDP 6.1 client. This particular version of RDP cames with SP3 for Windows XP or with SP1 for Windows Vista. I have no idea why Microsoft doesn't provide RDP 6.1 as separate package.
In my case I couldn't install XP SP3 or Vista SP1 on every machine in Network, so I've found a workaround.
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Posted Monday, 19 May 2008 by Michael Khanin
Few days ago Microsoft released a Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 with SP1. This update for Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 includes support for the following additional Host and Guest Operating Systems:
Additonal Guest Operating System support:
Windows Vista® Ultimate Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows Vista® Business Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows Vista® Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows Server® 2008 Standard
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
Additional Host Operating System support:
Windows Vista® Ultimate Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows Vista® Business Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows Vista® Enterprise Edition with Service Pack 1 (SP1)
Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3
Download from here
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Posted Sunday, 18 May 2008 by Michael Khanin
Every day organization receiving a lot of emails that equally not to be on the mail server or users's mailbox.
Last 5-7 years Administrators ask me what kind of Anti spam filtering software to use. I seen a lot of Anti spam systems, but I really love GFI. I think it's one of the best, IMHO the best solution. The really one of the best features of GFI it's simplicity in Administration.
GFI MailEssentials captures about 98% of spam. I thought about write an article how to install and use GFI MailEssentials, but it's really not necessary, because of GREATE GFI's web site, where you can find ALL necessary information.
So, if' your organization really thinks about GOOD anti spam solution (and not just anti spam, much more) take a look on GFI MailEssentials.
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Posted Wednesday, 14 May 2008 by Joshua Wood
iSCSI has become a very popular way of having shared storage among several physical or virtual computers. The benefits of shared storage are even greater when combined with the abilities of VMWare such as VMotion, High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler.
Below are the basic (and I do emphasize basic) to configuring iSCSI storage with VMWare 3.0. Like any shared storage infrastructure there are a number of possible methods and structures that could change the way that iSCSI is installed and used.
Step 1 - Add in extra Service Console and iSCSI VMKernal
The service console and VMKernal need to be on the same physical NIC on the ESX server. The IP’s for these services need to be on the same subnet as the iSCSI storage device. The pictures below outline the end-result if your iSCSI VLAN were to be 192.168.4.0/24. Note that the service console that you is shown below is the second and therefore additional service console. The original stays unchanged.
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Posted Wednesday, 14 May 2008 by Joshua Wood
BGP is the protocol that binds the Internet together. It is what sends one packet across the globe in a few milliseconds and allows you to send email, . Typically, you will see Cisco routers that will handle this sort of heavy lifting and that is the IOS that we will review briefly.
ASN – Starting point
In order to have a BGP connection you will need to have an ASN(Autonomous System Number). You can get one of these through ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers). BGP uses ASN's like VLAN id's or a higher level view of subnetting. There are private ASN's if you are planning on using BGP for internal purposes only. The private BPG range is AS64512 through to AS65535.
IOS – Configuration info
Here is the basic output of two connections to two different autonomous systems from one Cisco router.
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Posted Monday, 05 May 2008 by Michael Khanin
So I build a new Windows XP ISO with SP3 integrated, this is a Volume License editions (VOL) which only accepts Volume License Keys (VLK). When I want to install it on a clean machine, I noticed that setup prompts for a product key and it does not allow me to continue, which should be a new feature in XP sp3. OK so I fill in the VLK but it does not accept it, I try another one from a customer of mine, does not work either.
I found out that the problem is when you do the XP Sp3 slipstream process on a WIndows Vista machine, the API gives a different response and screws up the PID process. This is a bug and Microsoft knew about this in December, still the bug remained and made it all the way to RTM, nice work Microsoft.
So XP SP slipstream only on XP or 2003 machines!!!
See the dicussion thread here: Key not working after SlipStream
Source: Bink.nu
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Posted Saturday, 26 April 2008 by Michael Khanin
On all Windows 2008 Editions, the firewall is on by default. This true in a Server Core as well. Many IT Pro loves a new Windows 2008 Server Core Edition, but friendly speaking manage it from a command line for many Administrators is not so easy. Yes, We can manage Windows 2008 Core remotely, but we need to configure Firewall on the Core box. There are then three scenarios for remote management via MMC:
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Posted Friday, 25 April 2008 by Michael Khanin
By running Oclist on Windows 2008 Server Core we can get full information what Installed and what Not installed on server.
The full list is very long and not comfortable for reading. If you don’t want to include all of the many “Not Installed” options in the output of Oclist, run:
Oclist | find “ Installed”
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Posted Friday, 25 April 2008 by Michael Khanin
One of the first software that I install on any OS under VMWARE is VMware Tools. The most important benefit is the VMware enhanced video and mouse drivers. On VMware ESX, VMWare tools must be installed to get the NIC working. The Installation process of VMware Tools on Windows 2008 Server Core edition is a bit tricky. As far as you remember, Server Core it is a command line only version of Windows Server 2008. VMWareTools is a GUI installation so this is not an option for Server Core. Today we have few workarounds :) ...
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Posted Sunday, 20 April 2008 by Michael Khanin
The default management for Windows Server 2008 Core is the command line. Yes, the main powerful of Windows Server Core becomes available when using such an approach, but sometimes it's not so user friendly. This is why I've been asking so many times if exist anything more graphic :). Yes, one of the first recommendations to work and manage Windows 2008 Server Core is to use MMC from a remote machine, but MMC cannot do everything. Of course to allow work with remote tools this tool should be allowed passage through the firewall packages Server Core. In addition, this is for many more difficult than editing the registry. :) Therefore, I would like to have a simple graphical tool for configuring local system. The task of developing such an interface is complicated by that the Server Core has a limited set of graphics API, this is a reason why so beautiful MMC doesn't work on it.
So, if Microsoft has not established such utilities anybody else did this. Look at the utility CoreConfigurator developed by Guy Teverovsky, MVP from Israel.
This is what it can:
- Product Activation Product Activation
- Configuration of display resolution Configuration of display resolution
- Clock and time zone configuration Clock and time zone configuration
- Remote Desktop configuration Remote Desktop configuration
- Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords) Management of local user accounts (creation, deletion, group membership, passwords)
- Firewall configuration Firewall configuration
- WinRM configuration WinRM configuration
- IP configuration IP configuration
- Computer name and domain/workgroup membership Computer name and domain / workgroup membership
- Installation of Server Core features/roles Installation of Server Core features / roles
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