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 [...]

AD Recycle Bin Tool

Last year Windows IT Pro magazine highlighted ADRecycleBin from Overall Solutions. It’s an excellent free utility to bring back deleted items (or reanimate for earlier Active Directory installations than 2008 R2). It’s a very nice alternative to the built-in feature in Windows Server 2008 R2 and is a drastic improvement over item recovery in earlier versions of [...]

Sysinternals

If you’re in IT working with Windows and haven’t heard of Sysinternals, you may want to check to see if you’ve been living under a rock. Sysinternals started as the community or free arm of Winternals, the money making portion of the company. Microsoft purchased Winternals back in 2006 for its IP and brain-trust. Mark [...]

WMIC to the Rescue

A recent project had me trying to script the retrieval of the Dell Service Tag. Luckily there’s WMI Command-line to the rescue. From a command line or in a script wmic bios get serialnumber will display or grab the Dell Service Tag. Furthermore, you can use the WMI Command-line to retrieve all kinds of system data and even make [...]

List of Exchange Scripts

I started following Pat Richard‘s blog a few months ago and have since found his scripts to be quite useful. Even if I’m not using them directly, they’ve been useful as a reference when writing my own. He recently created a list of scripts available on his site; stop by and take a look. Share this:

Exchange Keyword Search

So you want to look for a specific word in all the mailboxes on your server without buying a 3rd party application? Try the Exchange Management Shell. You need three things on your client system before running the command (this is not recommended to be run on the Exchange server itself) Outlook 2003+ Exchange Management Tools [...]

Say Ninite

(Re)building systems can be quite a drag, especially once you get to the part when it’s time for downloading all the 3rd party software. This would include: Flash, Java, Firefox, Skype, etc., etc. Enter Ninite, an amazing, time saving, utility website. It works as advertised, allowing you to choose your choice of applications, whereupon it [...]

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