October 2011
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Storage Limit Status (StorageLimitStatus) on...
As an Exchange administrator, it’s helpful to have a relatively effortless way to determine if a user’s mailbox is approaching its limit in terms of disk storage space. We achieve this by using the Get-MailboxStatistics commandlet and look at the value returned in the StorageLimitStatus property. Think of StorageLimitStatus as a fuel gauge for mailbox disk space utilization and is...
Oct 28th
November 2009
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Bulk (But User Specificed) Enabling Audit...
Recently, I had to enable ACS Forwarding on a percentage of the systems reporting to my SCOM Management Group. All of the examples that I found on the Internet were for enabling ALL of the systems in a management group. For me, that was about 5,500 systems too many. So, I made a quick PowerShell script that did the job for me. There are 2 parts to this script. 1.) Input File - This file containts...
Nov 15th
October 2009
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Clear Windows Event Logs with the Windows Events...
Ever find yourself sifting through specific event logs after debugging a script or application? Do you do the old “hurry up and switch to Event Viewer so I can catch new events” technique? With wevtutil, put this command in front of your script and enjoy event logs that are relevant from the time of execution forward: wevtutil cl log_name /bu:backup_location_before_clear wevtutil...
Oct 21st
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Applying Traffic Shaping Policies on Single or...
I recently ran into a problem where a single Guest virtual machine on a VMWare ESX host was consuming too much bandwidth (70megabits/second!). When I configure a basic ESX host, I usually am working with a server that has two Ethernet Interfaces. I end up using one interface for management and the other as a virtual switch in which one VM Port Group is created that all the guests utilize. Luckily,...
Oct 18th
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Faster than Distributed File System Replication...
DFSR is an extremely important piece of my daily environment. I primarily use it as it was intended - to efficiently replicate files from one location to another over a slow to average link. But, my situation is slightly unique in the fact that files always originate on the far end of the link (remote site) and replicate to a datacenter. Once DFSR replicates this data to the datacenter, a...
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