From time to time it is necessary to apply an email address policy using a non-standard name for the user (e.g. instead of the users alias JOHN@DOMAIN.COM you need JSMITH@DOMAIN.COM). This can be accomplished across the entire organization by editing the Recipient Policies/email Address policies and using the following variables before (to the left of…) [...]
There are a lot of useful things that can be accomplished using Custom Attributes in Exchange 2007. This Doc applies to Recipient Policies (email Address Policies) and applying email addresses to users based on their custom attributes. This is useful when you have multiple domain names that you need to receive mail for as well [...]
I have had many requests over the past year from users that want to send as a distribution group as opposed to their primary account. This is useful when a user wants to send out something like an invoice from an email address such as accounting@domain.com. Fortunately, there is a way to easily grant a [...]
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Recently I had a need to schedule a monthly defrag on all of the client machines in one of the networks that I manage. As usual, finding an efficient way of centrally deploying such a task is much easier than going to each machine and manually creating the task. I accomplished this by editing [...]
As a Systems Administrator, procedures that take longer than they should is an extreme annoyance. That being said, I am sure that some of you out there are wondering the same thing that I was when dealing with Dell Servers and Terminal Services. How do you remove that annoying splashscreen/Wallpaper when logging into a Dell [...]
I recently had a client that decided to upgrade their enterprise from Small Business Server 2003 to Windows Server 2008 and Exchange 2007. After working with Windows Server 2003 (and SBS 2003) for so long, and only VERY briefly demoing 2008, I was excited to see what Server 2008 had to offer. After the initial install, [...]
Active Directory, as many know, is the life blood of the domain environment. It provides all authentication, user/group management and access control to the network. So what do you do when it is broken? There are many scenarios that can cause Active Directory to encounter issues; Replication, Low Disk Space, Drive Failures and Power Outages. In [...]
From time to time, I find the need to enable Remote Desktop connections on remote machines (When it is not enabled on a client and I need to log into that PC). Luckily there is a neat little way to accomplish this, as long as you have Administrative rights to the remote computer and can [...]
