First off, I really encourage anyone reading this post to move towards google chrome or mozilla firefox. Internet Explorer is best dying a slow death in my opinion. Too many security vulnerabilities, and it’s javascript engine is way slow. In some situations though you do still need Internet Explorer. Today I had a colleague ask [...]

Often times when migrating mailboxes from exchange 2003 to exchange 2007, one will see an error when trying to login to exchange 2007 owa. The error will occur the first time the user attempts to log in via OWA on the exchange 2007 system. It’s an ugly error that exchange 2007 OWA throws, with text [...]

There are times when I just need to find a phrase or object in mysql that could be buried anywhere. Often this happens with an imported schema where I’m not familiar with the layout and fields. To quickly search the entire db, I somtimes use the anywhereindb script, a project hosted over on google code. [...]

Quick powershell cmd for listing all mailboxes with sizes, in MB (copy and paste at ps cmd line)

OWA hopelessly busted in your exchange 2007 server? I scoured lots of posts and forums until I found an easy fix, for me at least. Posting here for my reference, hopefully it helps someone else also. On your exchange 2007 server – at a cmd prompt: (substitute wherever exsetup.exe lives on your server for ‘c:\program [...]

Three excel links that explain some of the improvements and caveats to Excel 2003,  Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. DataBison – improving excel performance add-ins.com – Excel 2007 vs Excel 2003 MS – improving performance in excel 2007 MS – excel team blog – Excel 2010 performance improvements

Most IT admins understand MS Outlooks use of the (sometimes) dreaded .nk2 file. There are tools available to edit the nk2 files and also to view their contents. Two good links – Nirsoft NK2View – good free tool to view and delete bad entries. Here is the best write up I’ve seen yet on how [...]

After years of using the old outdated Microsoft network monitor when I was forced to on windows (ethereal and wireshark  are better tools by far), I found the microsoft network monitor blog. I downloaded and tried the new version 3.3 (3.4 is in beta). Wow, what an improvement. The capture and display filters actually work [...]

It’s been announced that the mozilla team is working on Firefox 4. There will be no 3.7 release, the 3.6 chain will be the last versions before version 4. I use firefox as main browser, I’m guilty of having way too many tabs open at one time. As a developer, the firebug and colorzilla tools [...]

One thing I really wanted with my new iphone was a belt holster. I had used a blackberry for years and really missed the convenience of a holster. Then just last week, I had a ‘well duh!’ moment. My old blackberry holster works nearly perfectly for the iphone, and I suspect for many other new [...]