Aug20
If you’re deploying Windows 7, then you may have wondered how to get the Windows Aero interface to show up automatically. This was a big request during the Release Candidate testing of our Windows 7 deployment phase, and one that I had to spend quite a number of hours in figuring out how to make it work. The default Windows 7 image may not carry a graphics driver that is suitable enough ...
Posted by Greg Tate on
Thursday, 20 Aug 2009 11:44.
Aug13
Yes, users can play voicemails directly on an iPhone by changing the default codec to GSM.
Other codec choices are G711 and WMA.
You can set a system-wide default and then over-ride it on a per mailbox basis.
set-ummailbox username -CallAnsweringAudioCodec <G711 | Wma | Gsm>...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 13 Aug 2009 10:49.
Aug11
Before Exchange will receive an inbound fax, you must first update the a field in the Exchange UM server’s bin\globcfg.xml to True, and restart UM.
<!--
EnableInbandFaxDetection: Specifies whether inband fax detection is enabled
or not. The default setting is false and UM relies on the IP Gateways to
perform the FAX detection.
-->
<EnableInbandFaxDetection>false</Ena...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009 02:25.
Aug11
If you run OCS and Exchange 2007 UM together, you may notice the following error on the Exchange UM server:
The Telephony Manager declined a call with Call Id 'dc792cb1-3c0e-4a97-a8dc-ec948047af15' for the following reason in component telephony session: 'The media description received from the remote SIP peer has an invalid content type 'multipart/alternative'.'.
While researching this eve...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Tuesday, 11 Aug 2009 02:11.
Aug6
In this short 3 minute video, I will walk you through a live demonstration of the most anticipated feature in Hyper-V - "Live Migration."
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Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:51.
Aug6
I was recently found myself locked of a demo environment by removing the builtin\administrators group from SQL Server’s sysadmin role – a good practice by the way. I needed to get into SQL Management Studio.
This particular installation of SQL 2008 was running under the localsystem account. Using PSEXEC from sysinternals, I was able to launch a command prompt running as localsystem: psexec...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:49.
Aug6
In Windows 2008, Microsoft introduced the ability to create and mount AD snapshots online, without having to reboot into Directory Services Restore Mode (DSRM). By exposing an AD Snapshot, you can check to see if the backup set contains the deleted object in question. I also show a technique of using a 3rd party tool to copy attributes out of the snapshot and onto the reanimated object (nor...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:47.
Aug6
Every laptop and desktop joined to a domain attempts to change its password with the domain every 30 days. The Netlogon service uses the local security authority (LSA) secret to logon to the domain, which establishes a secure channel with a domain controller using RPC. If a consultant’s laptop has been off the domain for more than 30 days, and then they come into a Catapult office, they could s...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:45.
Aug6
This is really just a ‘re post’ of an excellent blog article demonstrating the features of repadmin. I learned quite a bit from reading this and hopefully this will benefit other AD Administrators out there.
I like the summary command: Repadmin /replsummary *
And /syncall with the /A(ll partitions) P(ush) e(nterprise, cross sites) d(istinguished names)
For example, you can see which changes ...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:43.
Aug6
I was on a customer call today where they had installed Kapersky anti-virus on their Hyper-V host. The server would no longer boot up. After reviewing KB 961804 I recommended that the customer add the proper exclusions or uninstall Kapersky. To complicate matters, it was not possible to uninstall the product from Add/Remove programs because the Windows Installer Service does not run in Safe Mo...
Posted by Joe Stocker on
Thursday, 6 Aug 2009 05:41.