Exchange joins Microsoft’s Billion Dollar Club, gets new product roadmap

It happened in 2004. Microsoft Exchange Server crossed the $1 billion revenue threshold, joining Microsoft’s enviable stable of products that the software company can rely on for more than a billion dollars in revenues each year. http://entmag.com/news/article.asp?editorialsid=6534 Exchange also got a new (ever-evolving?) product roadmap SP2 will be released in second half of 2005. It […]

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HOW TO: View the Security tab in Exchange Admin tool

Every time I get asked this, I remember the name of the key – ShowSecurityPage – but forget the complete path. It’s easier to simply keep the registry hack in a .REG file, so here it is. Right-click on the link, save, remove the .txt from the filename. ShowSecurityPage.reg If you’d rather do it manually, […]

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Cannot Book Resource – Outlook thinks it’s a recurring appointment

Issue: You try to reserve a conference room for a meeting, but get an error – XX Conference Room has declined your meeting because it is recurring. You must book each meeting separately with this resource”. But it is a single instance meeting! Cause: If several people have the resource’s calendar open and make changes […]

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Seeing Double? (Default Email Folders)

Situation: Upgraded to Office 2003 Professional. Outlook shows 2 of each default/system folder like Calendar, Contacts, Notes, Journal, Tasks, Junk E-mail, etc. (Not completely sure at what point this happened, but it happened within hours of Outlook 2003 upgrade, so that’s the most likely suspect.) Outlook thinks the new folders are the default, so new […]

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Users Cannot Save or Send Mail in Japanese using OWA

Users in Japan cannot send and receive messages in Japanese. They get an error in Japanese. Translation: You cannot send the message because the code page of this language was not found on the server. Contact your system administrator This is actually documented in the Exchange Server 2003 RTM Release Notes. Go to Known Issues […]

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Track Hotfix/Patch Installation

What’s the best way to track when and which hotfixes/patches were applied? It’s an endless debate amongst IT pros. Some would like to do it through dedicated patch management software. Some store this info in databases, even spreadsheets. Here are a few handy ways to track this info – I’ve used a combination of these […]

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SnapDrive 3.1 requires 3 hotfixes (2 avail only from PSS)

Want to upgrade NetApp SnapDrive 3.x to 3.1? You’ll need 3 hotfixes, 2 of these cannot be downloaded from microsoft.com. You need to call Microsoft Product Support Services for these : 1. KB838894 – An updated Storport storage driver (version 5.2.3790.173) is available for Windows Server 2003 2. KB831112 – [Call PSS] You cannot import […]

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HTML: Add a BACK text link (Javascript)

To add a “Back” text link to a web page: <a href=”JavaScript:history.back(1)”>the past</a> Using VBScript and FORM button: <form method=”POST” name=”VBScript_Nav_Sample”> <input type=”button” name=”Go Back!” value=”VBScript_Backup_Sample” language=”VBScript” onclick=”call window.history.back(1)” /< </form> Using Javacript and FORM button: <form> <input type=”button” value=”Button” name=”B3″ onclick=”javascript:history.back(1)” /> </form> From Microsoft KB Q205693

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VBScript | SELECT CASE statement

Rather than using too many IF-THEN conditions to check a value and take action, you are better off using the SELECT CASE condition. It produces cleaner code and is specifically meant for multiple IF-THEN conditions. The correct use of SELECT CASE: Select Case strValue [strValue is the variable you want to evaluate] Case “John”… do […]

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Web-enabling ADSI scripts

With the number of scripts I’ve been writing/accumulating growing exponentially every week, it was time to web-enable stuff so others could also benefit from the automation and efficiencies these provide. Well, it proved to be more difficult than I thought. Finally, after 2-3 sleepless nights, some things are up and running on a small web […]

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