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Let’s talk about Virtualization !

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  One car, one driver Look at the traditional datacenter infrastructure where single application runs on a single server so if you need to run 100 applications then you will be required to implement 100 physical servers, now just think about the cost of hardware, maintenance, electricity or power consumption and day to day operations for all these applications running on single physical servers. This is analogous to a single car, single driver, where the car helps get the person from "point A" to "point B" and the single driver represents the driver and sole passenger of the vehicle. If this were a single driver on a energy-efficient motorcycle or scooter, than would be reasonable, but people often drive alone much bigger vehicles,what Jeff would call "over-provisioning". Computer Chips have increased in processing power much faster than individual applications have increased their requirements, so as a result,you have over-provisioning. Carpooling - one b...

How to scan SMB V1 vulnerability in windows servers by scanning with nma...

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How to scan SMB V1 vulnerability in windows servers by scanning with nma...

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Installation & Configuration of IMAPSync Tool on Linux for IMAP Email Mi...

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Initialization & Configuration of Lenovo V3700 V2 SAN Storage Box - Part 1

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How to prevent sending external e-mail, but allow internal e-mail in Microsoft Exchange Server.

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Sometime may be you have internal & external domains configured in your organization and you don't want allow internal users to send emails outside the organization or to the public domains. You can achieve this using Microsoft Exchange Transport rules. Suppose you have all internal users in OU name "InternalMail" create a distribution group in the OU and add all internal users as member. Open up Exchange admin console " https://yourexchangeserver/ecp " and navigate to "mail flow" -> "Rules" Click the + button -> " Restrict messages by sender or recipient " In this example " extblk " is a distribution group. Added two conditions first is " the recipient is located " second is " the sender is a member of " Review the Rule mode is set to "Enforce" and leave other settings default and save the rule. You are done !

Installation & Configuration of IMAPSync Tool on Linux for IMAP Email Migration

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Step 1: Install Prerequisites sudo apt-get install makepasswd rcs perl-doc libio-tee-perl git libmail-imapclient-perl libdigest-md5-file-perl libterm-readkey-perl libfile-copy-recursive-perl build-essential make automake libunicode-string-perl libauthen-ntlm-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libdigest-hmac-perl libfile-copy-recursive-perl libio-compress-perl libio-socket-inet6-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl libio-tee-perl libmodule-scandeps-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libpar-packer-perl libreadonly-perl libterm-readkey-perl libtest-pod-perl libtest-simple-perl libunicode-string-perl liburi-perl cpanminus Sudo apt-get install libssl-dev Step 2: Install Perl Modules sudo cpanm JSON::WebToken Test::MockObject Unicode::String Data::Uniqid Step 3: Download IMAPSYNC Tool git clone git://github.com/imapsync/imapsync.git Step 4: cd imapsync Step 5: mkdir dist Step 6: sudo make install Note: May be you find the following error while compiling the tool; What you have to do before using imapsync: Install Perl mo...

How to create Virtual LAN Network on Azure

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How to create windows server 2012 r2 virtual machine on Azure

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Course CLD208 3x Exchange Server 2016 Mailbox Databases

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Microsoft Exchange Server Standalone AutodiscoverTest Tool

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The tool is really neat and runs in interactive mode when you don’t specify any parameters. You can download "AutodiscoverTest.exe" from the following link; Download AutoDiscoverTest Tool

Legacy Windows XP clients must match the Certificate Common Name in Outlook for (RPC over HTTP) Exchange 2013

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In this post I am going to discuss these two topics a bit further as this issue will impact many organisations moving to Exchange 2013 for those still running Windows XP (despite the fact it is no longer supported) seeming Exchange 2013 only supports RPC over HTTP or MAPI over HTTP (out of scope for this article). To recap what I wrote about in the previous articles 5 years ago, for RPC over HTTP(s) aka Outlook Anywhere to work on any version of the Outlook Client on the XP, the MSSTD value must match the "Common Name" on the certificate. What am I talking about? Well let me show you... The MSSTD is specified under " Only connect to proxy servers that have this principal name in their certificate " which can be found within Outlook under Account Settings, Open the Account, More Settings, Connection Tab and finally Exchange Proxy Settings. This value must match the "Common Name" of the certificate which in this example is mail.example.com as shown below nex...

How to resize Microsoft VHD file using Virtual Disk Utility

System Requirements Windows 7 / Server 2008 R2 or newer is required. Windows 8 / Server 2012 or newer is required for in-place resizing ( resizevhd ) and VHDX support. Usage: Create a virtual disk Download Link:   Virtual Disk Command Line Utility makevhd [-d] vhd size [source] -d Use dynamic allocation for the virtual disk. vhd Path of the VHD file to be created. size Maximum size, in bytes, of the VHD; must be a multiple of 512. Alternatively, DVD or BD can be specified for preset sizes. If set to 0, the size of the source disk, if available, will be used. source Path of an optional source whose data will populate the new VHD. Usage: Create a differencing virtual disk makevhd -f vhd parent -f Create a differencing VHD. vhd Path of the differencing VHD file to be created. parent Path of an existing disk to be associated as the parent. Usage: Resize a virtual disk in-place resizevhd [-f] vhd size -f Forcibly truncate t...

Microsoft VHD (Virtual Disk) Resizer Utility

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When you work with Microsoft’s Hyper-V product, you certainly come across situation where you had to carry out tasks on the attached VHD files. It has to be said the built in tools provide some basic operations, but in many cases these tools lack some features that might prove useful. One of those features is resizing the volume hosted in a VHD file. It’s probably not the most common task that you would use, but still there’s always that one odd case. As i just needed to adjust the volume within one of the VHDs, i did some research in to most efficient way of achieving this. The solution was a little utility called  VHD Resizer .  NOTE: This link has stopped working in the meantime. To download the utility, look for the download link at the end of post. You can download the installer from the link above, extract the zip file and run the installer. Once installed, you can open the utility – it will prompt you for the file you want to resize. The utility being very simple, there...

Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 - Online Quiz for Practice

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Click to the following link; https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=nhh7yzsqoU-CQ6NmvEjdUtyTb7OqxRVMtb35gWFpkjRUMVBaQlBWRFk1RjdITjFIVzA1Nzg2NUU3Vy4u

Build your own virtual lab with FortiGate + FortiAnalyzer

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Exchange Server Inheritable Permissions Needs to be Applied in order for Active Sync to function when a Mailbox is moved from Exchange 2007 to 2013

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Exchange 2013 - some users can't use ActiveSync [solved, AD permissions/groups] Recently, I was at a customer reporting issues with several users not being able to synchronize their mobile devices using ActiveSync.  The customer was running Exchange 2013 CU16 and used various mobile devices, e.g. iPhones as well as Android phones and tablets. So, I dig down  Solution: When a mail box is moved from exchange 2007 to exchange 2013, Exchange Server inheritable permissions needs to be added in order for Active Sync to function. Open Active Directory Users and Computers On the menu at the top of the console, click View > Advanced Features. Locate and right-click the mailbox account in the console, and then click Properties. Click the Security tab. Click Advanced. Make sure that the check box for "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" is selected. If the user is a member of certain protected groups such as Domain Administrators, it is normal for this...

Setting up Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3 Lab step by step installation and configuration guide

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System requirements & prerequisites to install Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R3... Basic Hardware: CPU cores Minimum: 2 cores Recommended: 8 cores  RAM Minimum: 8 GB Recommended: 14 GB  NET Framework 4.5 Required with AX 2012 R3.  Supported, but not required, with earlier releases of AX 2012.  You need to install a Domain Controller, SQL Server and 3rd Server for Dynamics AX.... How to install SQL Server for Dynamics AX? See the following link... http://dynamicsaxsrk.blogspot.com/2014/05/step-by-step-installation-of-sql-server.html After you have installed Domain Controller and SQL Server , see the following links; https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/shafeealabadiaxtutorials/archive/2015/03/29/install-dynamics-ax-2012-r3-step-by-step-step-1 https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/shafeealabadiaxtutorials/archive/2015/03/30/install-dynamics-ax-2012-r3-step-by-step-step-2 https://community.dynamics.com/ax/b/shafeealabadiaxtutorials/archive/2015/04/01/install-dynamics-ax...

Troubleshooting IMAP Connectivity: Unable to authenticate to IMAP server. IMAP command failed: Login failed.

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The first step is to check if the  Courier  IMAP server is accepting connections. Open a terminal window and type: telnet hostname 143 Replace  hostname  with the  IMAP  server's  DNS  name. This expected results would look like this: $ telnet imap.example.com 143 If you get the error "no login failed" then you need to check the following; 1. Make sure IMAP Service is running. 2.  You should make sure that you are using the correct password and that the mail username is in the format: 3. Make sure there is correct name in your exchange server certificate. Please check your certificate settings: Get-ExchangeCertificate | fl I noticed that the InternalConnectionSettings is pointed to Test2.contoso.com but the X509CertificateName is using Remote.domain.com. If there is a certificate with Test2.contoso.com, please change the X509CertificateName to it to have a try: Set-IMAPSettings -Identity Test2\1  -X509CertificateName Test2.contoso.com T...

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