Have you ever felt like it takes the Exchange Management Shell, like, FOREVER to get from the point where you click it to the point where you get the blinking cursor so you can actually do something? Yeah, me too.
Here’s a little trick that helps speed things up for me. It should do the trick for you too.
Open the EMS
Enter the command Get-ADServerSettings [enter]
You should see, well, basically, not so much. Like this.
Pick a Global Catalog server in the same domain and site as your Exchange server, and enter this command Set-ADServerSettings –PreferredServer fqdnoftheGC [enter]
Then repeat the first command, but this time pipe it into format-list.
That’s it really. Rather than waiting for the EMS to find and bind to a GC, you are saving time by telling it where to go. “Heh-heh, you told it where to go.” The following video merely affirms that at heart, I am twelve years old.
My taste in humour notwithstanding, if the little trick above helped you out at all, how about a shout out with a comment below, or maybe even a follow on Twitter? If I get ten comments or five follows as a result of this little tip I promise not to use another Beavis and Butthead video ever again!
As a follow up to my earlier post about the Geek ABC’s, I wanted to share a little story and some humour with you today. I was on the phone with another engineer, using the ITU spelling alphabet but not making a great deal of progress, when my client walked by and said “P as in pterodactyl.”
Well. to be honest, I had to jump for the mute button because I started to bust out laughing. The sheer ridiculousness of the English language, with so many silent letters, started me thinking about creating an alternate, smart-arsed spelling alphabet, but it didn’t take long to find that The Bare Naked Ladies beat me to the punch. I’d only change R, which of course must be for arrrrrgghh!
So you’ve well on your way towards moving your email to the cloud and you’re loving the awesomeness of Office 365. You have DirSync working, and ADFS up and running, and everything looks great until some yahoo tries to use Chrome or Firefox and gets spanked with a big ol’ DENIED. You probably use those browsers too, and at home, going through the ADFS proxies you have no problem, but further investigation shows that no one can use any browser on the internal network except IE. You do some digging around and have already figured out that its Extended Protection for Authentication that is smacking you down.
You’ve probably also found the TechNet article on turning that off with what appears to be a simple PowerShell command. Did you waste an hour trying to debug the error message before you realised you have to import the PowerShell cmdlets for ADFS first? Did you then try to figure out why the article tells you to run it on every server, only to hit an error telling you it only has to be run on the primary? Want to know how to fix it for realz?
What do you get when you mix one part dystopian future, three parts vampire, one part kung-fu, a pinch of Catholic school induced guilt, one part Karl Urban, and two parts awesome? Priest. This Korean graphic novel inspired vampire hunter yarn is just simple fun; no moralistic story telling (despite the Catholic Church’s presence throughout,) no attempt at complex dialog or deep character development, just some really bad-ass priests killing some really bad vampires. Tons of fun, lots of great special effects and stunts, and Karl Urban owned every scene he was in.
If you’re looking for a great action film with a lot of fun, and don’t mind some comic book gore and a little bit of fright thrown in, Priest is just the ticket for you.
Best quote: Black Hat: [With an evil smirk] After all, if you’re not committing sin… you’re not having fun.
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Midnight in Paris is one of the best movies I have seen in years. Woody Allen’s movies may be an acquired taste, but even if you have never enjoyed one of his earlier works, you owe it to yourself to see this one. Owen Wilson (who nails the first serious role I have ever seen [...]
In this post I explain how email archiving software solves many of the inherent problems that exist with the current email servers and email server setups. As you will see, storage space, the need to use PST files, performance and compliance are big issues for companies that do not invest in email archiving software. When [...]
Direct link for RSS and email subscribers…http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7217A09A83D56449 A few of my favourite Christmas tunes to run in the background. I hope you all have a wonderful holiday season, and my Best wishes for the New Year!
If you get an interface is misconfigured error trying to add a node to an NLB cluster, take a look at this before you spend too much time chasing your tail.
