Activate Windows and Office at the Command Line
I was recently looking for a way to activate Windows 7 and Office 2010 at a command prompt; this is what I found… Since the release of Vista, you can use the command line utility slmgr for Windows activation when using a MAK (or Multiple Activation Key). Windows Activation Open a command window (as administrator) And run… slmgr -ipk xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx slmgr [...]
Freeware Utilities
I’m always looking for more utilities to add to my arsenal for scripting, automating and generally freeing up time for other tasks, like sipping a fresh coffee ;^) Over the past few months I’ve been pointed to, or found, four more sites chock full of tasty utilities. AnalogX has a varied collection covering network, system, programming, even [...]
Search Fails for Some Outlook or OWA Users
Due to a recent power outage at a client site, their Exchange search catalogs became corrupted. The issue at hand was that searches in Outlook or OWA only resulted in showing results prior to the outage. To confirm that this was the case, I opened the trusty EMS and ran this command on an affected individual. test-exchangesearch username [...]
Script to Export a Mailbox to PST
With an occasional need to export a user mailbox to PST for archive, I decided it would be useful to be able to call up a script and save myself some time and mouse clicking. Should you wish to give the script below a try, copy it into a text file and change the extension to [...]
Recursively Add Public Folder Permissions
Last week I found myself having to export (for archival) and remove a large tree of Public Folders. I thought the task would be easy, open Outlook, highlight the top level folder and Export to PST. Little did I know someone changed the top-level permissions of the folder I previously created, removing any admins from [...]
PowerShell: Execution of scripts is disabled
This information is available on many sites, but I’m tired of searching for it every few months when I switch laptops/tablets. Whenever you try to run an unsigned PowerShell script, you get the following message: “File C:\Custom\Test.ps1 cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see “get-help about_signing” for [...]
Setting the Out of Office Reply at the Command Line
If you’ve ever had to set someone’s (like a VP’s) Out of Office message because they left town before doing so, and of course don’t have access to Outlook Web Access, it can be quite a disruption to your work. Recently I was surfing Jim McBee‘s blog and found this gem, which he in turn [...]
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