useful Terminal Server command:

• Query process
  
  
• Query session
  
  
• Query termserver
  
  
• Query user

How To: Restore a removed Mailbox Database

After a Mailbox Database is deleted, the actual database file (.edb) is still there. To recreate the original database from this file, do the following:

1. Create a new empty mailbox database, using the New-MailboxDatabase command
2. Enable "Over-written by Restore", using Set-MailBoxDatabase
3. Move the old database files to the same location as the new database
4. Mount the database
5. If restoring on a new exchange server, run Move-Mailbox - ConfigurationOnly

see http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998340.aspx

How To: send alert to distribution group in WSS 3.0

1. Go to Exchange server
2. Create a Distribution Group
3. Set Delivery Restriction to no authentication
4. Note the email address
5. Go to People and Groups
6. Add a domain group such as Domain Users
7. Edit E-Mail field with noted email address

now add alerts with this email address.

What causes VDI client to prompt logon twice?

check for other remote desktop / access software installs such as citrix, novel neo clients...

How to recover mail store (database) from exchange crash:

background: in 2007, can't mount mail store after crash.

1. reboot
2. run ESEUTIL /mh (mailstorepath\mailstore.edb) on all mail stores to determine if any store is in "Dirty Shutdown" state
3. run ESEUTIL /p (mailstorepath\mailstore.edb) on each "Dirty Shutdown" store
4. mount mail stores, if successful, go to end
5. if mount fails, move e00.chk, tmp.edb and catalogdata-xxx folders to other location
6. retry mount

How to set up load balancing for Virtual Machines:

1) make sure the servers to be load balanced are on the same vSwitch
2) install and configure Microsoft NLB (see related articles)

How to change Exchange Proxy settings:

use Exchange Management Shell (PowerShell) command, Get-OutlookProvider and Set-OutlookProvider to set it:

• [PS] C:\>Set-OutlookProvider EXPR -CertPrincipalName "msstd:*.abcdef.com"

How to configure ESX 3.5 (3.x) Service Console networking:

1) This command "esxcfg-vswif -i <10.10.10.1> -n <255.255.255.0> vswif0" modifies the network configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-vswif0

# Broadcom CorporationNetXtreme BCM5754 Gigabit Ethernet
DEVICE=vswif0
BOOTPROTO=static
ONBOOT=yes
PORTGROUP="Service Console"
MACADDR=00:50:56:4f:12:ae
BROADCAST=172.17.10.255
IPADDR=172.17.10.201
NETMASK=255.255.255.0

2) Edit the route file /etc/sysconfig/network

NETWORKING=yes
GATEWAYDEV=vswif0
GATEWAY=172.17.10.1
HOSTNAME=vinycesxtest.valiantinsurance.com

3) Edit the DNS resolver file /etc/resolv.conf

nameserver 172.16.2.4
nameserver 172.16.2.5
search valiantinsurance.com