The balloon tip to change your password is only shown for a few seconds. Often users complain that they can’t read the balloon tip that fast. So we have to increase the display time of the balloon. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO Open your RDS Server User Policy and expand the following folders: User …

Users have to be notified on time to change their password, but what if that notification isn’t displayed?

Most often you want to restrict access to control panel items, but you probably want to see some icons (for example Regional Settings, Mouse and Mail). By default Server 2008R2 only shows the categories and not the individual icons. Let’s make it the classic look, so we see our icons right away. Solution: Make a change to the Registry by using a GPO …

With the lockdown of Server 2008R2 RDS you have the opperunity to show only specific control panel items. So i want to show my users the Mail icon.

Looking for a specific email address and want to know if it exists or which users owns that address?

After installing the latest HP Offline bundle my server returned a hardware warning status, so the investigation started. Before upgrading the HP drivers there was no error so i had to be something in the driverpack from HP. In my setup the affected server is a HP DL380 G7 with a P410i Arraycontroller. The affected offline bundle is: hp-esxi5.0uX-bundle-1.4-16.zip Solution: …

In Server 2008R2 and Windows 7 you have a link in your start menu to Devices and Printers, but this new layout isn’t showing the printer comment and location. Solution: Create a new shortcut to printers Create a new shortcut and copy / paste to following line %windir%\explorer.exe /e,::{2227A280-3AEA-1069-A2DE-08002B30309D} Name it Printers. You can even change the icon which points …

The Windows Server 2012 Core gives you just a basic command prompt window, so where do you click to install the VMware tools? You don’t! Just click on the Install/Upgrade VMware Tools option in your menu and type the following command : D:\setup64.exe /S /v"/qn REBOOT=R" In my lab, the server did not automaticlly reboot, but i really think that …

With Windows Server 2012 you have the ability to add and remove Graphical User Interface of your installation. You can configure the basics with Server manager and afterwards remove the gui so the server is core only! There are three layers to be added from core to full GUI: Graphical Management Tools and Infrastructure Server Graphical Shell Desktop Experience So …

When installing a new VMware environment everything is running with trial keys to make it run smoothly. But when you are at the moment of entering the official keys you receive an error notification.

When you’re upgrading to Exchange 2010 you shouldn’t forget to check the mac users. Some of them are using Apple mail, Microsoft Entourage 2008 or Microsoft Outlook 2011. But when it comes to Entourage you have some requirements you need to meet before Exchange 2010 is implemented! Go to http://www.microsoft.com/mac/downloads Check to see what the latest updates are for Office 2008 and …

Performing the actual migration is often a moment to cross your fingers … and of course you will receive some errors when you start moving the first mailboxes. Error: Property Expression isn’t valid Luckely, this one can pretty easy be fixed. Solution: Follow the following steps: Start the Exchange Management Console Go to Recipient Configuration, Mailbox and find the affected …

Performing the actual migration is often a moment to cross your fingers … and of course you will receive some errors when you start moving the first mailboxes. Error: Insuff_Access_rights Luckely, this one can pretty easy be fixed. Solution: Follow the following steps: Open your Active Directory Users and Computers MMC snapin. Go to the View menu and activate Advanced Features …

A quick note about finding your devices wich are connected to one of your cisco switches. I always start on the main switch (core) to find the device. Commands used: ping show arp show cdp-neighbours show cdp-neighbours detail show mac address-table Solution: First we have to ping the device to get an arp entry. #ping 192.168.0.1 Type escape sequence to …

This is a follow up post to my existing post about exporting mailboxes to pst with powershell. As requested i modified the script a bit to export all mailboxes to pst files with a single script. Just fill in the variables need wich are in the first lines of the script. $mailserver = "<servername>" $path = "\\<servername>" $userlist = get-mailboxdatabase …