Sysadmin Lab

If you're in the normal non-Exchange PowerShell or PowerShell ISE and try to run Exchange cmdlet you get the following error: + Get-Mailbox <<<<     + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (Get-Mailbox:String) [], Command    NotFoundException     + FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException Simple solution: For Exchange 2010, run: Add-PSSnapIn Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010 For Exchange 2007, run: Add-PSSnapIn Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.Admin More info: You could also enter the following to get a list of Powershell Snap-Ins that are registered on the system and that you could use: Get-PSSnapIn -Registered [...]

Maybe you've read the description of my home entertainment network. Some of you wanted to know how I configured the remote control thing. In part 1 I showed you how to remote control IR devices using iPhone running OpenRemote and Global Cache  iTach WF2IR. After this guide you will be able to switch on/off a lamp using your iPhone/Android. For this to work, I bought myself the Nexa PB-3 package (~$30)which enables you to switch on/off using the remote control [...]

Many admins I talk to want to use the Exchange 2010 RBAC permission model to delegate some administrative tasks to their admins, but they also tell me it's quite complicated to understand. Sure, it can be very complicated but for most "smaller" implementations (less than 20 admins?), it's quite easy to understand. Hopefully this article will clear things up... RBAC, Role-based access control simply allows you to delegate object creation and modification. Important to understand is that you no longer [...]