On your Exchange CAS For Auto Discover New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest:$true -SubjectName "C=AU, O=Company, CN=autodiscover.externalname.com" -DomainName mail.externalname.com, autodiscover.externalname.com, exc2007.internalname.local, autodiscover.internalname.local -FriendlyName "Microsoft Exchange 2007" -Path c:\AutoDiscover_mailcert.req -privatekeyexportable:$true For OWA & Active Sync New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest:$true -SubjectName "C=AU, O=Company, CN=mail.externalname.com" -DomainName mail.externalname.com, autodiscover.externalname.com, exc2007.internalname.local, autodiscover.internalname.local -FriendlyName "Microsoft Exchange 2007" -Path c:\Mail_mailcert.req -privatekeyexportable:$true If you are purchasing a certificate, this certificate request file “c:\*****.csr” now needs to be sent to the correct Certificate authority so they can generate a certificate with it. You will need to request a Unified Communication Certificate. Once the certificate is back from the authority, skip to step 6.Output Thumbprint Services…
Exchange 2007 SP1 Outlook Anywhere NTLM authentication for domain based and workgroup based computers
At the University in Sydney they have Exchange Server 2007 installed on Windows Server 2003 servers. They needed a solution for people to use Outlook Anywhere using laptops that were attached to the domain with logged on domain user accounts, also local user accounts with laptops that weren’t on the domain. However, they didn’t want to have the password dialog box popping up all the time primarily for the domain based users, and for users using local accounts, it was ok for the password dialog box to pop up when logging into Outlook. At first, when I tried to switch…
Using diskpart.exe with Hyper-V to setup storage
Find the appropriate disk.After logging in for the first time choose option 13 in HVConfig.cmd. This will open the command prompt if one isn’t already opened in the background already. Type the following command to list the disks in your system:diskpart.exeDISKPART> list disk Convert the disk.When you only have one disk in your system you would choose to convert disk 0 to a dynamic disk:DISKPART> select disk 0DISKPART> convert dynamic Reboot.Reboot your server to convert the disk. Create the volume for the Virtual machines.You can now create the volume that spans the unused space on your disk….
ISA 2006 – VPN PPTP error
After installing this update on ISA 2006 with SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/956570, your PPTP VPN might stop working with error 0x8007274d wsaeconnrefused. When I uninstalled this update from Microsoft, this fixed my VPN and I was able to gain remote access once again.
Convert DVR-MS to .AVI
This will show you how to convert DVR-MS to .AVI, it a two step procedure. First you need to convert to .mpg, then you can convert to .AVI (DivX or Xvid). First off you need ffmpeg_MPGMUX.exe from here. You need to have access to the Media Center DVR-MS files, also a dump location for the .MPG files which they will be converted to in the first step. Run the following command changing the parts in RED to suit yourself. "\\dlinknas\volume_1\FTP\Software\Multimedia\Vista Media Center Tools\ffMpeg\ffmpeg_MPGMUX.exe" -y -s hd1080 -i "M:\recorded tv\Seven News_Seven HD_30_01_2009_17_58_04.dvr-ms" -vcodec copy -acodec copy -f dvd "D:\Converted\Seven News_Seven HD_30_01_2009_17_58_04.mpg…
Build your own custom Vista installation DVD – Unattended Setup
This tutorial will be split into several parts, as I’ll try to cover more and more about how you can make your own fully automated, customized Vista installation DVD, using Microsoft’s official tools. I will cover also Vista SP1 (Service Pack 1) “slipstreaming” in the next part of this tutorial. You will see why I wrote slipstreaming with quotes. What you will need: – A bootable Windows Vista/Server 2008 DVD. – Automated Installation Kit for Windows Vista SP1 and Windows Server 2008 (WAIK). – Any tool for extracting/inserting boot images. I use MagicISO, as I did in an earlier tutorial….
Symantec Endpoint Protection & Windows Server 2008 Domain Controllers
There is a compatibility problem with Windows Server 2008 domain controllers and Symantec Endpoint Protection, servers at the UNSW blue screened randomly and this was the fix, UNSW have premiere support with Microsoft. Keep this with you as I reckon we will need it at come point in time. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/951037
