Category: Microsoft

Why Windows Scale Out File Server is not Scale Out

At the E2EVC convention – by the way the best geek convention for virtualization people – Aidan Finn (@joe_elway) gave a great presentation on how […]

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The X-th platform expectations

This is another one of those -cut the crap and use your common sense- posts. Earlier today I had a twitter conversation with one of […]

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MSSQL must really love Oracle (pun intended)

You remember everyone ranting on the Oracle licensing schemes? You remember everyone ranting on VMware last year when they announced the vTAX licensing scheme?  Today […]

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remote install of DPM 2010 agents

CASE: sometimes the deploy of DPM 2010 agents just failes. Most of the time it is just because the default firewall (of W2K8) doesn’t allow […]

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set ACTIVE USER to AutoAccept Meeting Requests when offline

CASE: we needed a resource that could be reserved for LiveMeetings (Microsoft Roundtable). This user also needed to be ACTIVE because the system will be […]

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How to deploy the settings of your Wireless Network

CASE: when you have a Wireless Network in your environment you will have to deploy the settings of it to all notebooks. One of the […]

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Heritance of Folder Permissions in Outlook

CASE: there is a new secretary and she(he) needs access to all inbox folders of her manager whitout having full control on the mailbox object. […]

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Easy way to Reboot W2K3 server automaticly

Sometimes It can come in handy to reboot a server on a scheduled base. This can prevent memory issues (SQL/Exchange/…) and sometimes just to force […]

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Scripted change of calendar permissions

CASE 1: an existing Exchange user (mailbox) needs to be accessible for other users. This can be the ‘Inbox’ , ‘Calendar’ or other folders. For […]

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Windows Server 2008 could not be activated by phone

CASE: in our training center there was a training planned for Microsoft Small Business Server 2008. For this training (called a MOC) we received several […]

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Change language setting of Out-Of-Office message (OOO)

CASE: in our environment the subject of the Out-Of-Office messages was in dutch [niet aanwezig] but we prefer to have this in English [Out-of-office]. Can […]

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Add/Change permissions on users mailbox

CASE: When a new user is made some other users (for example manager) need at least reviewer permissions on the calendar or inbox. This also […]

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