Jun 27 2008 11:22PM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
BESADMIN,
BES,
BlackBerry Enterprise Server
If you are working with BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) you can get a problem, when users cannot send emails from their Blackberry. And, I guess you already familiar with a “Send As Permission” problem :).
So, I created a script, that allows set all neccesasry right to the BESADMIN account. When you run script, you should provide an OU, where the particular user exist and user’s email address.
NOTE: In my script I used linex.exe and dsacls.exe. Just use Google to download those very POWERFUL tools 
@echo off
SET Tools=C:\Tools
SET TEMP=C:\TMP
SET SOU=
SET BES=
SET ou4user=
SET BES-USER=
DSQUERY OU domainroot > %TEMP%\ou.txt
%Tools%\linex -n < %TEMP%\ou.txt
SET /p SOU=”Please type # of OU where the user located: “
SET /p BES=”Please type user’s email address: “
FOR /F “TOKENS=* delims==,OU” %%a in (’%Tools%\LINEX -l %SOU% ^<%TEMP%\OU.txt’) do set ou4user=%%~a
FOR /F “TOKENS=2 delims==,” %%a in (’dsquery * “%ou4user%” -attr mail distinguishedName^|find /i “%BES%”‘) do set BES-USER=%%~a
@echo “%BES-USER%”
dsacls “CN=%BES-USER%,%ou4user%” /G “%USERDOMAIN%\BESADMIN:GR”
dsacls “CN=%BES-USER%,%ou4user%” /G “%USERDOMAIN%\BESADMIN:CA;Send As”
Jun 27 2008 10:56PM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows,
Command line,
send,
message
By using the DSQUERY command and “Net Send” we can send a message to all users in a given OU.
It’s really simple, create a script, name it NetSendOU.bat and use the following syntax:
NetSendOU OU Message
Where OU is the organizational unit, like “OU=Users,DC=AdminInfo,DC=Ca”, and Message is the message text, like “Hello from AdminInfo.ca”.
NetSendOU.bat contains:
@echo off
if {%2}=={} @echo Syntax: NetSendOU OU “Message”&exit /b 1
setlocal
set query=dsquery user %1 -o samid
set message=%2
for /f %%u in (’%query%’) do (net send “%%u” %message%)
endlocal
exit /b 0
Jun 26 2008 6:59PM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows,
Virtualization
Just recieved anonce about this and here it is:
Today, Microsoft reaches a significant milestone for customers and partners with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization feature included in select versions of Windows Server 2008. Those who have already deployed the x64 versions of Windows Server 2008 can receive Hyper-V from Windows Update beginning July 8, while new customers and partners can download Hyper-V later today (12:00 pm PT). The Windows Virtualization team will be counting down the days to download from Windows Update, so be sure to visit the Windows Virtualization Team blog to see daily spotlights on specific features and benefits of Hyper-V technology, as well as to read about customer stories and see postings from guests.
Since the beta release of Hyper-V in February, more than 250 customers have participated in Hyper-V’s early adoption program. Microsoft’s own deployment and results with Hyper-V is showcased today in Rob Emanuel’s guest blog and video on the Windows Server Division blog, specifically on customers using Hyper-V and partner benefits, visit the Microsoft PressPass site.
Jun 25 2008 2:58AM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows,
Networking
Quite old (released 10/2/2007) but very powerful and useful tool, Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer. Additionally, I discovered that many IT Admins are not using it. The Microsoft Active Directory Topology Diagrammer reads an Active Directory configuration using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), and then automatically generates a Visio diagram of your Active Directory and /or your Exchange 200x Server topology. The diagramms include domains, sites, servers, administrative groups, routing groups and connectors and can be changed manually in Visio if needed.
Jun 25 2008 2:39AM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows
Recently, I’ve installed a Windows 2008 Server on my notebook. Then, I started to install all software that I’m using daily. Of course, MSN Messenger is on my ‘Must to have” list. As you may or may not know, Windows 2008 Server doesn’t support Windows Live Messenger. When you try to install it you’ll get the following error:
Sorry, Windows Live programs cannot be installed on Windows Server, Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, or Windows operating systems earlier than Windows XP SP2
I have no idea why MS decided to do that, however after some searching I found the following MSI package which really works in Windows 2008 Server. It’s a silent install. It will install Messenger Live silently, just remember to reboot your system.
Jun 25 2008 2:27AM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows
An update is available that will help improve the performance and reliability of Windows Vista.
Source: support.microsoft.com
Jun 23 2008 12:27AM GMT
Posted by: Michael Khanin
Microsoft Windows,
Windows Computing
I guess it’s impossible to find IT person who doesn’t know very old and at the same time very powerful program, NTBACKUP. For me, it a best program to backup and restore Windows systems, like NT, 2000, XP and 2003 :).
If you have an old backups that was made by NTBACKUP and you want to restore it on Windows Vista or Windows 2008 you can use recently released Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility.
If you have a reason ( I do) to use the old NTBACKUP program to do backup on Windows 2008 it’s also possible, but I’ll talk about how to do that in one of my next articles :).
