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If you’ve been used to aligning your disks under windows 2000/2003, it may be a thing of the past. Evidently, Windows 2008 changes the way volumes are created.
For some background go here and here.
It seems Basic, GPT and Dynamic disks are now aligned on creation at 1 MB, under Windows Server 2008. No diskpar / diskpart commands are needed anymore. You won’t suffer any performance degradation and you don’t need to remember the commands each time. For a refresher, try this post.
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How can I get a count of items in a user’s Exchange mailbox?
Use PFDAVadmin and enable logging to file.
1. Tools Menu > Options > Enable logging to file checkbox
2. Tools Menu > Export Properties
3. Select only the following three properties
PR_CONTENT_COUNT : 0×36020003
PR_DISPLAY_NAME : 0×3001001E
PR_FOLDER_PATHNAME : 0×66B5001E
4. Choose a file path to save to
5. Click OK to start processing.
Note: You may find better success importing the resultant file to MS Access if your exchange environment is extremely large. The reason for this is due to versions of Excel and limits they have, to the number of records per worksheet.
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For those of you using SANs, whether Fiber Channel or ISCSI, don’t forget to align your partitions for best performance.
I recently installed two Key Management Servers on Windows 2003. Here’s a compilation of my research with step by step instructions
Windows Server 2008 login screens can be annoying if you are used to Windows 2000/2003. While you won’t be able to revert to the classic interface, you can at least get rid of the switch user nonsense.
How many times have you had a windows 2003 server print queue go offline even though the printer is on and working? I have seen this problem off and on for awhile and never found a good answer until now.
I’ve been doing a bit of work recently on Windows Server 2008 and I just noticed Microsoft has rearranged the search function within their newest Operating Systems. Here’s the fix to the most common complaint about the new setup.
Here’s a couple tips if you work with McAfee Virus Scan Enterprise and EPO. These are just some of the more common things I seem to come across in an enterprise environment.