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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

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...

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...

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...