Importing and Enabling an Exchange SSL certificate
Importing and enabling an Exchange Certificate
First copy your certificate to the root of C:
Then open the Exchange Management Shell and run the...
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12/11/2009 13:36
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12/11/2009 13:29
Enabling internal servers to relay through Exchange 2007
The attached guide will talk you through enabling the relaying of emails from your internal servers through your Exchange 2007 email server.
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03/11/2009 08:22
Return slot size information in vSphere
This script will return the slot size information from a vCenter server.
Download here
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# slotsizes.ps1
# 20091103
# https://www.a2-alpha.co.uk
# This script checks to see whether you are using
# vSphere 4 and if so brings back information on slot sizes
# If you are not using vSphere 4 an...
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28/10/2009 11:55
Disconnect Virtual CD Drives - CD Remover
The following script, sets the CD Drives of your virtual machines to the Client Device option.
It firstly lists machines with CD drives connected then gives you the option to remove or not remove for each one.
Download here
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# Dans CD Remover
# cdremover.ps1
# 20091028
# Version 1.0
#...
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27/10/2009 11:07
Removing Snapshots older than X days
The script below queries virtualcenter for all snapshots and then checks if each one is older than the amount of days you specify in the command line.
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If they are older you get a confirmation as to whether to remove or not. Then it moves on to the next snapshot or ends if the last...
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26/10/2009 09:27
Dump IP address information for local network adaptors when doing a P2V
When doing a P2V of a Windows box, a new network adaptor is created and the old one becomes hidden, the IP address information is not automatically transferred to the new adaptors in the converted machine.
One of my colleagues put me on to this, and it certainly sped up the...
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12/10/2009 12:17
Authenticate to ESX server using Public / Private keys over SSH
Use this procedure to allow you to connect over SSH into your ESX server(s) without using a password using a Public / Private key pair.
Although you can set your ESX server to allow you to authenticate as root over SSH this is not recommended so this procedure relies on you having created a limited...
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10/10/2009 17:26
Mount remote windows share in Linux
To mount a remote windows share:
Make a mount point - mkdir /mnt/backup
Use the following command to mount:
mount -t cifs //192.168.0.1/backup -o username=name,password=Password1 /mnt/backup
To permanently mount the windows share:
Make a mount point - mkdir /mnt/backupAdd...
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10/10/2009 17:18
VMware Tools install on Linux Guest Operating System
Mount VMTools Installer CD
Open a terminal session
su - (to root)
cp /media/VMware Tools/VMwareTools-8.1.2-197124.tar.gz /root
cd /root
gzip -d VMwareTools-8.1.2-197124.tar.gz
tar - xvf VMwareTools-8.1.2-197124.tar
cd /root/vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
(hit enter at every prompt to keep...
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25/09/2009 16:09
Enable ping through the firewall of Vista or Windows 7
I built a Windows 7 Virtual Machine and needed to test pings to it however it would not respond due to it being blocked.
This solved the issue as an administrator:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 enable
and this to disable again:
netsh firewall set icmpsetting 8 disable
This came from the...