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Virtual Desktops for Windows
Being so used to virtual desktops in Linux makes Windows quite hard to use. We found an application called Deskpot that “enables” virtual desktops in Windows. Below is a short video on how it works in Windows 8.
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How to extract audio from a video
I’m starting a few pod casts and want to extract the audio from the videos to mp3. The whole idea is to give you the option to listen to an audio version of the pod cast (video cast) as not everyone wants to jam video files on their portable audio players. I’m using VLC media player to extract the audio from one of my previous tutorial videos to mp3. If you don’t have VLC media player then click on the link to visit their site and download, in my opinion, the best media player out there for Windows, Mac OS and Linux.
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Prohibit meeting request recipients from forwarding a meeting request – Outlook 2013
We had a user requesting assistance on how to prohibit other people from forwarding his meeting requests. In the below video I show you how to do just that from within Outlook 2013.
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Adam Database not syncing with Active Directory
I have a multi tenant messaging system that needs to sync user information to Mimecast. We have setup an ADAM database to sync with Active Directory. In turn Mimecast syncs with the ADAM database to have up to date user details of which SMTP addresses are the most important as Mimecast has been setup to not allow mail from an e-mail sent from our system for an email address that it is not aware of. Problem: ADAM stopped syncing with Active directory because of the below errors found. 1. The error in the ADAM sync log 2. The problem shown in the ADAM database Resolution: Delete the containers as…
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Deleting disconnected Mailboxes in Exchange 2007
Purging disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2003 was quick and easy. With Exchange 2007 you need to use the Exchange Management Shell to purge/delete the disconnected mailboxes. Below are some examples on how to delete disconnected mailboxes in Exchange 2007. Make sure that you need to delete the disconnected mailboxes as it’s easier to reconnect a disconnected mailbox if a user account and mailbox got deleted by accident. Delete a specific disconnected mailbox: 1. Get-MailboxDatabase (this will show you the database names) 2. Get-MailboxStatistics | where-object { $_.DisconnectDate -ne $null } | Select DisplayName,MailboxGuid (view the user’s GUID here) 3. Remove-Mailbox -Database “Type Your Database Name Here“ -StoreMailboxIdentity Type the Users Mailbox GUID Here -confirm:$false…
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Export mailbox sizes in Exchange 2010 using Exchange Management Shell
Thought I’d share two scripts today. I use both daily to export mailbox sizes to a csv file for reporting purposes. These scripts will export the following: User Display Name, Database where the mailbox is homed ,the mailbox’s Total Item Size, Item Count in the mailbox and the Storage Limit Status Export a report on mailbox sizes on a specific server: Get-Mailbox –Server the server name –ResultSize Unlimited | Get-MailboxStatistics | Select-Object DisplayName, Database, TotalItemSize, ItemCount, StorageLimitStatus | Sort TotalItemSize, -Ascending | Export-CSV driveletter:\foldername\reportname.csv Export a report for mailboxes homed on all your mailbox servers: Get-ExchangeServer -Domain your domain name | Get-MailboxStatistics | sort TotalItemSize -Descending | select DisplayName, Database, StorageLimitStatus,…
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How to install NetBeans in Linux Mint
I started teaching myself Java and the IDE for most of the tutorials used is Eclipse. The author of the latest book I’m reading is using NetBeans so I decided to install NetBeans 8 to follow along with the author’s examples and the book’s tutorials. The below video shows you how to install NetBeans in Linux Mint which is currently my main desktop OS at home. Apologies for the loss of audio halfway through the video as my headset died. The video does however show the installation, where to find NetBeans after the installation finished and that it works like a charm in Linux Mint.
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VirtualBox – Invalid settings detected when trying to add a Host Only Adapter
Been playing with a few VM’s again today and run into trouble when I tried to add a Host Only Adapter in VirtualBox. The below video shows you how to enable the option to add a Host Only Adapter in Oracle’s VirtualBox.
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How to install Java (JDK8 and JRE8) on Linux Mint
Started teaching myself the art of programming using Java and decided to install the Java JDK8 and JRE8 on my Linux Mint 17 PC. This was surprisingly easy and quick to install. Just click on this link and follow the article to install Java on your Linux Mint Operating system. I’m using Eclipse as the IDE which can be installed from the Software Manager in you Linux Mint installation. A video of installing Eclipse will be uploaded soon for anyone who might prefer seeing how it is installed.
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Install Teamviewer on Linux Mint
The below video shows you how easy it is to install Teamviewer in Linux Mint. I successfully installed Teamviewer in Linux Mint 16 and 17.
