Various Tips and Tricks
New? Well some options are not that new really. Others are however!
Sometimes it is the little things in life that can help immensely. Take our venerable friend, netstat! Even though it has been around for many moons folks often get into the habit of using only certain options, switches or parameters. For reference purposes, the Windows XP Netstat options are doc… Read the rest “New Netstat Options”
For those wondering what the download page is for the Microsoft Online Services Sign In Assistant, using your favourite search engine in your favourite browser is one choice.
Alternatively you can use the handy dandy shortcut URL:
This will take you to the latest version of the Sign In Assistant download page.
For reference purposes, the intent of the Sign-In Assis… Read the rest “Quick Tip: Is There A Shortcut URL To Download Online Sign In Assistant”
This is a follow-up to the initial post on the topic which was based on the original Azure Service Manager (Azure SM) model. Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM) changes the deployment methodology. Take a look at Azure Resource Manager vs. classic deployment: Understand deployment models and the state of your resources for more details. We will take a brief look at the relationship of the networking… Read the rest “How To Get Azure RM VM IP Addresses Using PowerShell”
TailspinToys Canada have been busy upgrading their on-premises, Azure and Office 365 infrastructure. Previously Azure resources were moved from classic (Azure Service Manager) to the new Azure Resource Manager (Azure RM). The VMs, storage accounts and VHDs were migrated. One of the migration blockers was that multiple availability sets were previously present in one of the cloud services. Th… Read the rest “Create Azure RM VM Using Existing VHD”
When running operations in the Exchange Management Shell, you may run into the situation where the commands do not complete and the error “Pipeline not executed because a pipeline is already executing” is reported. An example of this is shown below.
This is an Exchange 2010 SP3 RU15 lab server. In this case a PowerShell one-liner was used to iterate through the Exchange 2010 servers, and to start… Read the rest “Exchange Management Shell Pipeline Not Executed Because a Pipeline Is Already Executing”
The below was noted when dealing with a customer issue where the VIP was complaining that Outlook had "unexpectedly" changed the amount of data which they had chosen to keep offline. They had a laptop system with a very small SSD, which filled up due to the increased OST size.
Large OST issues happened frequently in Outlook 2010 as that version of the client would download all content to the OST. … Read the rest “Outlook Unexpectedly Changed Mail to Keep Offline Settings”
Running scripts to start and stop services has been a task long associated with Exchange. For those who pre-date Exchange 2000, do you remember the fun issues with the increased WaitToKillServiceTimeout value? By default in ye olde days HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlWaitToKillServiceTimeout was 20,000 ms (20 secs). Installing Exchange increased that to 600,000 ms (10 minutes). … Read the rest “Script To Start Exchange Services”
In some of the lab environments provided to me, the base Windows image has pre-set WSUS updates servers. When I then move the lab VMs to a different network, the original WSUS servers are no longer available, and I typically point to Microsoft Update or a different WSUS server.
In the case of pointing to Microsoft Update, I wanted to delete the initial WSUS registry values. In my case, these are … Read the rest “Script To Remove Windows Update Server Values From Registry”
In a recent customer conversation, they were excited that PowerShell 5.0 would contain the option to tail a log file. While they were excited to get that feature, they were less excited to hear that PowerShell 3.0 had already added the –Tail parameter to the Get-Content cmdlet. Previously there have been other solutions to get this functionality, but is now native in PowerShell.
As an example: