Posted by jayb | Posted on 06-05-2010
Category : Daily Links, Misc
Tags: activedirectory, citrix, email, exchange, microsoft, sharepoint, sn, tutorials, VDI, virtualization
These are my links for April 23rd through May 6th:
- Kaviza, VDI, affordable virtual desktops, virtual, infrastructure and server – Home – Realize immediate ROI with Kaviza – deploy virtual desktops for less than the cost of PCs. Get the benefits of centralized desktop management, lower desktop support costs and greater uptime, all within a PC budget.
- SharePoint 2010 – Where’d “My Links” Go? – Laura Rogers @WonderLaura – In MOSS 2007, we’re used to seeing a link in a drop-down box at the top right of our SharePoint sites, called My Links. At first glance, it seems that this functionality has been removed from SharePoint 2010. It’s still there, sort of. Here are a couple of places that you can find it:
- EndUserSharePoint.com – Nice site with Sharepoint examples and tips
- Jorge ‘s Quest For Knowledge! : How to move a DC to another site? – In this case you need to change the IP of a DC and move it to another AD site
- QVLWeb: Exchange Add Hidden Mailbox – After hidding an account of a terminated user, I needed to add the account to the managers mailbox for monitoring of business related mail.
Posted by jayb | Posted on 26-03-2010
Category : microsoft
Tags: active directory, email, password
At work we have been getting more and more require for accounts that have users that are not “full employee’s” (my term) These are users that do not spend most of their business time in the office, they could be travelling sales, outside sales, consultants. Some only use OWA,VPN, or Citrix desktop or published app. But they all seem to have one thing in comment. How do we let them know their password is going to expire and how to get them to change it.
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I started looked at ways to address the first issue this afternoon and I’ve found a few script that would send the emails and a few paid solutions.
The 2 vbs scripts I found are a few years old
http://theessentialexchange.com/blogs/michael/archive/2007/11/13/sending-an-e-mail-to-users-whose-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx
and
http://myitforum.com/cs2/blogs/rcrumbaker/archive/2008/08/15/email-users-when-password-is-about-to-expire.aspx
I also found an exe that you run via scheduled task
http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2008/07/20/notifying-users-by-e-mail-their-password-is-going-to-expire.aspx
but I think I’m going to try the free solution from NetWrix, they also have a paid solution but I’ll start with the free version. Netwrix also has some AD change tracking I’m going to test but haven’t had time yet. They have some nice free tools with the option to go to the paid version with more features.
We haven’t totally collapsed our AD into a single domain yet, so I still have to deal with managing muliple AD domain name spaces in a single AD forest.
If you know of any other ways to notify the user they password will expire or have tested netwrix products leave a comment.
wow, the MS Exchange team blog has a great post on how-to use the Exchange Server 2007 Mailbox Server Storage Cost Calculator
The post lays out each stop and explains the results. Unfortunately I don’t think we’ll be moving to exchange 2007 in 09 
the CAL cost is just too much for next years budget. But we do plan on consolidating our 4 exchange 2003 servers within North American to a single exchange 2003 cluster. I’ve start looking into running a 1300 user exchange 2003 server on ESX. Most of the numbers and proof of concepts running exchange on ESX is for Exchange 2007. We’ll see how it goes.
Posted by jayb | Posted on 22-09-2008
Category : technology
Tags: email, gmail, google, microsoft
Why is this so hard. There seems to be a ton of ways to sync your calendars, but I can’t find a good way to sync my contacts.
Here’s what I’m looking for an easy way to sync contacts between — a gmail account, a gmail for domains account, outlook at home (imap,pop) , and outlook at work (using exchange)
Plaxo seemed like it was designed for this, but they are too interested in their new pulse social network look good, not get two way contact sync with gmail working. Plus with Comcast acquiring them, who knows.
A search of google did turn up gSyncit and OggSync both paid software but I tried OggSync but it doesn’t have a free trial of the contact sync. I’ll give gSyncit a try this weekend. I don’t know if they’ll be able to handle the deplicate detection of the four different accounts.
Anyone else have an easy way to two way sync gmail for domains contacts with outlook?
Posted by jayb | Posted on 01-08-2008
Category : site news
Tags: email, News, vcenter, vmware
I got a denied email from blogburst today.
Oh well, guess I don’t post enough or quality content…
I just keep on rolling on.
More vmware news soon, I’ll be trying to use the new P2V from vcenter next week.
jb
Posted by jayb | Posted on 20-03-2008
Category : Misc, technology
Tags: email, software
Since I moved my domains to google apps. I pretty much don’t use outlook at home anymore. I just log into gmail for my domain. I just wish more applications integrated with google apps and had a two way sync with the contacts
I still haven’t found a good way to consolidate my yahoo and hotmail email into my google apps account, without using outlook or any desktop software.
later,jb
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