http://www.silesti.net The collected musings of me! Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:39:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I came across this article today and wanted to share it out to all of you out there who are using Powershell to manage and maintain your HMC environments instead of the Exchange UI tools. The article title is :- "HMC provisioning issue: Adding machine into default OAB CAS Pool in ... http://www.silesti.net/work/hmc-provisioning-with-powershell/ I spotted this excellent post over at 'You had me at EHLO' and wanted to share it out. The guys over there have shown what an attached iPhone lookslike from an Exchnage administrators perspective. ATTENTION HMC hosters - are you telling your customer you support iPhone? Figures this morning told of ... http://www.silesti.net/work/iphone-in-exchange-admin/ A little while ago I bought a Mac Mini to play around with. The primary goal was to use it (believe it or not) as a Windows Server 2008 platform and do some tinkering with Hyper-V. This worked well and I've been very happy with the ease at which I ... http://www.silesti.net/home/basesystem-package-could-not-be-verified-a-solution-is-found/ I'm putting together a reasonably significant presentation for an organisation at the moment and have been provided with some reference material to get a 'feel' of their phrasing and terminology. I have a lot of fun looking at other peoples presentations as they usually say a lot about the person ... http://www.silesti.net/work/other-peoples-presentations-ppt-and-the-death-of-the-speaker/ Hi all, I wanted to share this little bit of knowledge, I couldn't find any information out there so I played around until things worked. Scenario: I buy Office 2008 for the Mac - Home and Student Edition because it's cheaper and I don't have an Exchange server. I update as updates come along, ... http://www.silesti.net/work/office-2008-home-edition-and-an-update-to-entourage-for-exchange/ Sometimes the worst thing that happens is that someone genuinely 'gets' what I'm talking about, truly understands what it is that needs to be done and knows what it's going to take to get there.. but just doesn't have the ability to execute. This isn't necessarily the personal ability, it's the ... http://www.silesti.net/home/seeing-the-pain-behind-their-eyes/ I've heard it said that the worst thing about travelling is packing the right clothes. I don't have a problem in this area generally, it's: Work clothes x number of days with clients Tee-shirts x evenings away Jeans and cargos (1 pair each) Smalls to cover all of the changes. Sometimes though I find ... http://www.silesti.net/work/what-to-pack/ We've seen a problem being highlighted by a couple of hosters where their HMC4-based customers were (horror of horrors) able to see each other in the GAL. This is obviously not a good things and was deserving of some investigation. After some digging around and some pointed questions we found ... http://www.silesti.net/work/mps-re-working-required-in-hmc4-after-exchange-2007-sp1-installed/ Just wanted to spread the word that Microsoft have made available on Technet a list of KB articles and hotfixes for various issues which may be seen. Please note that unless you are seeing this particular issues in YOUR HMC deployment you should only apply these hotfixes if they are marked ... http://www.silesti.net/work/hmc-35-and-4-hotfixes-and-rollups-now-available-on-technet/ For a long time now I've been mildly annoyed by the fact that every time I start up my virtualised XP environment under Parallels on the Mac, it tries to log me is as Administrator. I don't want Administrator, I want my own account see! Today I finally got sick of ... http://www.silesti.net/home/paralells-for-mac-stop-auto-login-as-administrator-on-xp/