GPO Start the default browser on a specified page at user logon
The easiest way I've found to start at user logon the default browser (firefox in my case) and open a default page was to create a simple script to be executed at the user logon through a group policy. The script is really simple, It must be a .bat run the command […]
NtFrs SYSVOL replication problems
I decided to write this long post because I hope it'll come useful to someone because this problem has made me crazy for nearly two days!!!! And the bad thing is that I have found virtually no documentation / solution / comments on the internet that have been helpful (apart from one!). I had to complete an upgrade of […]
Exchange 2013 enable forward on a mailbox without using contacts
To set up forwarding to an external address on any Exchange 2013 mailbox, you can go to the mailbox properties and configure mailbox features -> mail flow -> enable forwarding. The problem is that the GUI will not allow you to enter a simple address to forwarding to the mail, but you can only configure […]
Exchange 2007 and 2013 coexistence error owa redirection NotSupportedWithServerVersionException
During the phase of coexistence with exchange 2007 and exchange 2013 the access to OWA service is handled through a redirect, in a nutshell the 2013 exchange becomes the service access point and, once the user has entered his credentials, If the mailbox is still on 2007 the browser is redirected to the legacy.domain.com address (legacy è solo […]
Exchange winmail.dat attachments and RTF format
Often you receive email, from users who use exchange as mail server, with a winmail.dat attachment unreadable by most mail clients. Often to read it the simplest thing is to use the webmail or some software that can open it and interpret it correctly. The cause of the problem is the format in which […]
How to renew the self-signed certificate from ADFS and Office365 and how to enable the auto renewal
If you have set up ADFS (active directory federation services) to authenticate the users of your domain in Office365 you know that to maintain communication between your adfs service and Office365 you need a certificate that is trusted from both servers / services / sides. Obviously you can use certificates generated from a public CA, Also returning […]
vSphere 6.0 what’s new!
These are just some of the innovations presented at the online event of vmware (unfortunately I lost half of the event because the video streaming was not working… apparently I was not the only one): As usual, they have improved the maximum size of VMs, Now you can create vm with as many as 128 vCPUs and 4 TB of RAM (I'd like to know if there is […]
How to export a mailbox to a pst from exchange
Starting from rom Exchange 2010 SP1 there is an option, by a powershell command, to export an entire mailbox or even part of it to a .pst file. The operation can come handy as a method to store a mailbox before you completely delete it from the organization. The command is very simple: New-MailboxExportRequest -Mailbox username -FilePath “\Servershareusername.pst” Keep in mind that the export destination […]
