Sysadmin Lab

This has to be one of the coolest thing I’ve tested in my lab, the Evoko Room Manager. It’s a flat screen that you put on the wall next to your conference rooms and it will show you the room’s schedule and also enable users to change/add/end meetings – in a very nice design. The frame is either green if the room is green and red if it’s occupied. There are plenty of user guides available, other reviews available and [...]

I’ve come across quite a few Exchange migrations lately during mergers and acquisitions where the source domain had a bunch of users and instead of using ADMT (Active Directory Migration Tool) to migrate the user with SIDHistory they simply just manually created all the users in the destination domain (without mailboxes) and started using them. Then a few months down the road they start to think of how to migrate Exchange and the mailboxes. Well, since SIDHistory was not migrated [...]

I was working with a large Exchange 2010 migration and had 50+ Accepted Domains in Exchange 2010 to take care of, many of them very old so nobody could tell me if they were in use. This company also had gone through many changes so we had to verify that each accepted domain had the correct MX record specified in the public DNS. The external domains were hosted on external DNS:es and the mailgateways were 3rd party. So instead of [...]