Exchange 2007 Administration : Setup and Delegation
Management tools for 32bit OS Download from : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=6BE38633-7248-4532-929B-76E9C677E802&displaylang=en. During installation, you need to have access to AD. Furthermore, the tools won’t work on Vista. You’ll get a similar error when those conditions are not met: Check http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb232090.aspx for more information about installing the Management Tools. Powershell cheat sheet Powershell supports tab-completion & command […]
How to properly restore (objects in) the 2003 AD database
Windows 2000 /Active Directory has been around for more than 7 years now. I’ve been using AD for almost 7 years, and due to its stability, I never had to recover a deleted object in AD. (Knock on wood). So it’s not a real surprise to find out that a lot of admins don’t even […]
Performing AD Schema Updates in a safe way
Updating from 2003 to 2003 R2 & implementing Exchange are 2 common administrative tasks which both require a schema update. Since I’ve mentioned “updating from 2003 to 2003 R2”, I’ll take the opportunity to add some “notes from the field” to this blog post, which will increase success rate of the update and limit the […]
How to backup VMWare ESX virtual machines
Today, I will try to explain 2 techniques that will allow you to backup your vmdk files (virtual machines) on a VMWare ESX 3.0.x server. My lab runs on 3.0.2, but this will work on 3.0.1 (and maybe earlier versions) as well. Before continuing, let’s make a couple of assumptions : I will explain how […]
Exchange 2007 : Indexing and searching mailboxes
The Exchange 2007 search engine has much improved over the index/search engines that were available in Exchange 2000/2003. The new search is less resource-hungry, fast, searched inside attachments, and is enabled out of the box. Enable/Disable search To enable or disable Exchange search, open the Exchange Management Shell Run the following command to see if […]
Delegating AD Admin tasks to non-Admin accounts
Designing a distributed/international Active Directory is certainly the most important piece of a successful AD implementation. One of the issues that should be dealt with is whether you want to allow other people to be Enterprise/Domain Admin or not. If you ask me : it’s not a good idea. You should restrict those rights to […]
How to restore a Windows 2003 DC using ASR and VMWare
The following procedure should work for any type of hardware, but I’ve used VMWare (so this procedure is also valid if you want to convert a physical Domain Controller to VMWare). Additionally, the procedure works for Windows 2003 server, but also for Windows XP (professional) Prerequisites : ASR backup .bkf file and the ASR floppy […]
AD 2003 DC Restore Technique using VMWare (without having to grant local DC/Domain Admin rights)
In certain distributed AD scenario’s, Domain Admins group membership or local DC admin privileges are restricted to certain people only. This is a good thing to do, but it requires you to think about certain issues before they happen. One of these issues is backup and restore. Yes, you can schedule a system state backup […]
Moving VMWare server/workstation .vmdk to ESX Server
While finishing the setup of my VMWare ESX infrastructure, I needed to move a couple of virtual machines from a VMWare Server (running on Windows XP) to my ESX server. Migrating most of those machines was relatively easy : I booted the virtual machine using the VMWare convertor cd and used the convertor to move […]
Creating and installing lzm modules in Backtrack 2
Today, I will explain how you can create your own lzm modules & patch the backtrack 2 final ISO file (by adding your new module). First of all, get a fresh copy of the bt2final.iso file from http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack_download.html Write the ISO file to a CD and boot from the CD. This will load the bt2final […]
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