Doing an a migration today from Exchange 2003 to 2010 and once I’ve installed the Exchange 2010 server, I rebooted and logged back on to it. I got the following error “No Exchange servers are available in any active directory sites.” After a little investigation, I realised that I was logging on with the local administrator account rather than the domain administrator … [Read more...]
Archives for July 2012
Microsoft Camera Codec Pack
I stumbled across this one on the Microsoft Download site when looking for something else altogether. It’s the Microsoft Camera Codec Pack and it’s a piece of software that once installed will allow you to use native Windows to view a wider range of images than before. I will also allow you to view RAW format photos that many cameras produce. I’ve tried this with my Canon … [Read more...]
How to mirror a directory structure without the files
Have you ever needed to copy or replicate an entire directory structure without the files themselves? I’ve often needed to do that when setting up some USB hard drives for offsite replication with ShadowProtects ImageManager. I found a nice simple way to do it with the Robocopy command robocopy E:\SPBackup F:\OffsiteBackup /e /xf *.* That command basically … [Read more...]
Mouse without borders – very cool utility
I was sitting at my desktop last week with it’s 4 LCD screens and on the right hand side I have my laptop. I was thinking about how cool it would be to be able to move my mouse from the desktop to the laptop and still use it. Microsoft must have been reading my mind, because this week I found out about a utility called Mouse without borders. This cool utility will … [Read more...]
Where can I get the product key for Windows Server 2012 Essentials Beta?
If you are installing the public beta for Windows Server 2012 Essentials, you will have found that you can’t install it without the product key. You might have missed it, but it was displayed down in the Instructions section on the downloads page here Good luck with your testing … [Read more...]