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Allow Account to Log on as a service Right

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Apr 05 2013 | Comments (0)
You can use this procedure to add the Log on as a service right to an account on your computer. To open Local Security Policy, click Start, point to Control Panel, point to Administrative Tools, and then double-click Local Security Policy. In the console tree,...

How To: Find and Remove Inactive Computer Accounts from Active Directory

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Apr 03 2013 | Comments (0)
There are a number of reasons why you may need to find and remove inactive computers from active directory. Test computers and servers that were removed without disconnecting from the domain, or in my case, a computer fleet upgrade. New computers were brought in...

Exchange 2010: Storage Quota Warnings are not Sending

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Mar 01 2013 | Comments (0)
In exchange 2010 SP1, users are not receiveing quota warning messages when they are beyond the Issue Warning threshold. Microsoft have an article relating to this issue. Users do not receive quota warning messages after you apply Service Pack 1 for Exchange Server...

Exchange 2010: Powershell to add full permission to mailbox

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Feb 20 2013 | Comments (0)
Run the following powershell script to grant a user or group full access to a mailbox. Add-MailboxPermission -Identity '' -User '' -AccessRights 'FullAccess'

Exchange 2010: Set Work Hours for Room Mailbox

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Aug 16 2012 | Comments (0)
In Exchange 2010, when you create a room or resource mailbox, the Resource Policy tab gives you the option to Allow scheduling only during business hours. But what is business hours? The default business hours is from 8:00 am until 5:00 pm. You can check this by...

How To: Delete a mail profile from the registry

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Aug 10 2012 | Comments (0)
This is particularly handy if you want to reset your outlook profile, but the security policy on the computer does not allow you to launch the Mail control panel HKEY_USERS\\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles

How To: MS SQL Empty Database Log File

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Jul 15 2012 | Comments (0)
You will often find your database log file (.ldf) growing to a very large size, often larger than the databasie file (.mdf) itself. Log files should shrink after a full backup, but this isnt always the case. Below is a quick command you can run to empty a database...

How To: Configure External Time Source for Server 2008 R2

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Jul 15 2012 | Comments (0)
This article explains how to configure your Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory Primary Domain Controller to syncronise time with an external time source. Note: In an active directory, all member computers will sync time with the PDC, so you only need to setup...

Exchange 2010: Remove disconnected mailbox

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Jun 26 2012 | Comments (0)
After you delete a user from Acrive directory or Exchagne their mailbox is kept in the Exchange database for a number of days until it is automatiaccly removed. As defined in the “Limits” section of the database properties. If you want to force the...

Exchange 2010: Register custom functions in console

Posted by SteveHardie | On: Jun 26 2012 | Comments (0)
If you have defined custom functions in a .ps1 file, to register them in Exchange Command Shell all you need to do is run the following command: [ps] c:\Exchange> . .\.ps1 Then you can call your functions from the PowerShell command line.