To assign a user Read-Only access to a mailbox from Exchange is not very intuitive… But it’s not difficult by any means.
Today I hit send on an email that was supposed to have an attachment and I got a friendly reminder from Outlook.
I cannot tell you how many times I have sent an email and forgot the attachment and had to send that embarrassing “oops I forgot the attachment” follow up email. I’m guessing Outlook is checking your email for phrases like the one below.
Props to Microsoft on this one….
I just finished implementing the new Windows Deduplication on some of my backup volumes and decided to share the results. I’m pretty impressed with the numbers. Its pretty easy to set up, just install the Role Service, then right click a volume in server manager to turn it on. It creates scheduled tasks that you can adjust.
So I went to remove a program from startup today on a Server 2012 machine and typed in msconfig like I always have and received this error “Startup items are not enabled on this system.” In Windows 8 you can use task manager but not true with 2012. my googling has been unsuccessful so far. I know you can use a third party tool or edit the registry directly.
You can also check these folders: %appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Startup and folder %ProgramData%Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
Here is the sysinternals tool.
I’ll post back if I find a better solution. “not enabled” leads me to believe you can enable it…
Finding the IIS rewrite module a little confusing? Well if all you are trying to do is rewrite your url from http to https just insert the following code into your web.config file. Make sure you have installed the URL Rewrite module in IIS first or it will bring your site down.
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At RANDA, like many other organizations, we experienced the dreaded flurry of “Reply All” emails after someone sent an email to a Distribution Group that contained all users. We did not want to restrict access to the distribution group, but needed a solution to stop the onslaught of “Thanks”, “Awesome”, “Insert crude joke here”, etc.
To that end, we implemented a couple of Transport Rules that would strip out the distribution group from the To and CC field and add it to the BCC field. This created a system that would allow Reply All on other groups, but eliminate it on the company wide group. If the user clicks Reply All, the reply only goes to the originating user!
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According to this MSDN Blog Post AppFabric is now supported on Server 2012. However I have been unable to create a clustered cache on the standard edition of 2012. I found the following in the event log:
“The High Availability feature of AppFabric Server caching features requires all nodes in the cache cluster to be running Windows Server Enterprise Edition or higher”
That makes perfect sense for Server 2008r2 considering you can’t do any clustering without Enterprise edition, however things have changed with server 2012. According to Microsoft:
“Standard edition now offers all of the same enterprise-class features as Datacenter and is differentiated only by virtualization rights.”
I have commented on the MSDN blog without luck…