When you need to change the location that you have been saving all your package source files, you will then need to update all the existing packages and applications to point to that new location.
(Note: See here to read what happens when you do update all your source locations)
This is fairly simple for Packages, but is a bit more complicated for Applications (more…)
Some quick commands I hacked together to make it easier to check what services are running on a machine after it has restarted, and compare them against a “known good” baseline of the services that *should* be running.
The key purpose was for after a server crash to check the services such as SQL and exchange have all started again.
A collection of Powershell commands that I’ve come up with. Will add over time
In my never ending quest to learn a new thing everyday, I decided I needed to spend more time with Powershell. After a recent Hyper-V issue it seems it would be just the thing to help. So imagine my surprise when nothing I did could get the Hyper-V PS commands to work!
It turns out that because my server had been upgraded to Server 2012 from 2008R2, when the Hyper-V role is installed, the Hyper-V PS module isn’t.
I have a few mailboxes I created way back in Exchange 2003 that are shared between several people, so after migrating to Exchange 2013 I decided to reconfigure those shared mailboxes “correctly” as actual “Shared” mailboxes. That was easy.
Then I discovered a small problem. Shared mailboxes only work when using the full Outlook client or through OWA. Up to now, Activesync was the primary method of accessing these mailboxes, and you can’t access a Shared mailbox using Activesync!
The reason is pretty simple. Shared mailboxes are created based on a disabled Active Directory user account. This is great for security, and also great because you don’t need a license for that mailbox. By disabling the AD account however, you have no way to authenticate using Activesync.
Annoying stuff I figured out (or am trying to) 