If you have Hyper-V running on Windows Server 2008 R2 in a cluster, there are times when you will need to live migrate all virtual machine guests to another host for scheduled planned maintenance on a specific host. You can live migrate all virtual machines one by one, one after the other from one host to another host by automatically running the following PowerShell script: Import-Module failoverclusters get-cluster "$CL" | Get-Clusternode "$SH" | Get-ClusterGroup | Move-ClusterVirtualMachineRole -node "$DH" As an example: get-cluster "dc-au-hvc-03" | Get-Clusternode "dc-au-hv-12" | Get-ClusterGroup | Move-ClusterVirtualMachineRole -node dc-au-hv-13 If you want to live migrate one specific…

If you take many photos and normally use Photoshop to Auto Tone, Auto Contrast and Auto Color as a manual task, this can be fairly time consuming. This guide will show you how to automate this on a folder basis. All photos in a folder can be automatically processed by Photoshop for Auto Tone, Auto Contrast and Auto Color, saving you lots of time by using pre-recorded Actions in a batch job! Create an output directory on your computer where all Edited photos will output and saved to, e.g. C:\Users\<user>\Pictures\Edited Open Photoshop and open any image as preparation. You will…

This comskip.ini file works well for me using MCE Buddy with Windows Media Center. detect_method=255            ;1=black frame, 2=logo, 4=scene change, 8=fuzzy logic, 16=closed captions, 32=aspect ration, 64=silence, 128=cutscenes, 255=all validate_silence=1            ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above. validate_uniform=1            ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues (like pure white frames) if blackframe is selected above. validate_scenechange=1        ; Default, set to 0 to force using this clues if selected above. verbose=1                ;show a lot of extra info, level 5 is also OK, set to 0 to disable max_brightness=60                  ;frame not black if any…

If you are using Windows Server 2008 R2 as a print server and have all the correct drivers installed, x86 and x64 versions, printers might not install correctly from Group Policy and you might see event ID 4098 in the event log: Group Policy object did not apply because it failed with error code ‘0x80070bcb The specified printer driver was not found on the system and needs to be downloaded.’ This error was suppressed. In this scenario, printers might install correctly on Windows XP x86, but not on Windows 7 x86. Also, if you try to manually connect to the…

You might have two Active Directory sites and one Domain Controller/Global Catalog in each site. In one of the sites, you might have Exchange 2010. In the event log for Exchange 2010, event ID 2080 might say: Process MSEXCHANGEADTOPOLOGYSERVICE.EXE (PID=1296). Exchange Active Directory Provider has discovered the following servers with the following characteristics: (Server name | Roles | Enabled | Reachability | Synchronized | GC capable | PDC | SACL right | Critical Data | Netlogon | OS Version) In-site: DC-01.dc.local    CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1 1 7 1 Out-of-site: DC-02.dc.local    CDG 1 7 7 1 0 1…

To get the current Exchange Web Services Internal URL Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory  -Identity dc-au-ex-02\EWS* | fl InternalURL To get the current Exchange Web Services External URL Get-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity dc-au-ex-02\EWS* | fl ExternalURL To set the Exchange Web Services External URL Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity dc-au-ex-02\EWS* -ExternalUrl https://www.contoso.com/EWS/exchange.asmx To set the Exchange Web Services Internal URL Set-WebServicesVirtualDirectory -Identity dc-au-ex-02\EWS* –InternalUrl https://www.contoso.com/EWS/exchange.asmx

On the Domain Controller which has the PDC Emulator FSMO role – by default this the first installed DC in the domain – this is the time source for all domain members. All other DC’s sync with the PDC Emulator then member servers and workstations sync with an available DC, this results in the same time for all domain members. There are different Stratum levels which apply to servers and devices, which distinguishes them from each other. Taken from this article, the following gives a brief rundown on the different levels. Stratum 0 These are devices such as atomic clocks,…

Post migration you might start having issues with mobile devices using ActiveSync not synchronising correctly with Exchange Server 2010. It might work for a couple of days and then stop working. During this time users don’t receive any email to their mobile devices, but they can send email. You might also get an error on the iPhone Cannot Get Mail, The connection to the server failed. You might be using Quest Migration Manager for Exchange v8.7, and in the mail source and target agent logs you might see entries similar to this. Source log: 5/27/2011 10:01:55 AM  MailKernel::ExportSource           Informational    2049      …

To enable Reviewer calendar permissions for all users in your company, the easiest way to do this is by using a PowerShell script in the Exchange Management Shell. Add-MailboxFolderPermission -identity "sAMAccountName:\calendar" -user "domain\MailEnabledGroup" -AccessRights Reviewer