What does the clock say?
I’ve always been a fan of innovative clock designs. A recent article on Livbit pointed me to the fascinating design of Book Clock.
Other designs include a Mechanical Gear Wall Clock, the Dumbbell Clock that compels you to do your Exercise (which is, by the way, supposed to keep on ringing until and unless you have done 30 reps!), a cute Clocky alarm clock that will make you run after it, a Water powered clock and a Soil powered Clock.
There’s even a Word Clock that removes all the conventional design elements of a clock like the flat surface, hands and digital display.
While we are on the subject, it’s worth mentioning that Adam Dorman has some downloadable free flash clocks on his site.
- Thanks, Jinesh.
Top 5 posts of 2009
Multiple users with LegacyExchangeDN set to ADCDisabledMail
Does Exchange 2007 always use whitespace available in a database?
Issue Series: E-mails going directly to ‘Deleted Items’
Issue Series: Exchange 2007 does not resolve Sender addresses
Decommissioning Exchange 2000 Public Folder servers
- Thanks, Jinesh.
Hey Exchange 2007, move the mailboxes, email me the log when you’re done!
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange Management Shell | Tags: Exchange 2007, Powershell
Leave a Comment Adam Fazio has written a small script to:
- Reads user aliases from a text file in the local directory (MoveMbx1.txt)
- Moves the mailboxes to a specified Server & Mailbox Store using 10 threads and suppressing the annoying “are you sure?” prompt
- Puts today date in a variable in format YYYYMMDD
- Get Exchange Migration Logs that have the above date in their name
- Emails the logs in plain text
You can find the script here. While you are at it, read Exchange 2007 Script: how to run as a scheduled task? as well.
He also quotes Mark Twain in his blog - “Always tell the truth, that way you don’t have to remember anything.”
- Thanks, Jinesh.
Happy New Year
Have the best year so far.
- Jinesh.
Find the status of a service using Powershell
Filed under: Exchange, Exchange Management Shell | Tags: Exchange 2007, Powershell
Leave a Comment Get-Wmiobject -Query “select * from win32_service where name=’ServiceName’” -Computername Server01
You can use the following examples for providing multiple server names as input.
Get-Wmiobject -Query “select * from win32_service where name=’MSExchangeIS’” -Computername Server01, Server02
Get-WmiObject -Query “Select * from Win32_service where name = ‘MSExchangeIS’” -computername (gc ServerList.txt) | ft __Server,Name,State,Status
You can also find all the ‘Automatic services’ that are not running across multiple servers.
Get-WmiObject -Query “Select * from Win32_service” -computername (gc ServerList.txt)| ? {$_.state -ne ‘running’ -and $_.startmode -eq ‘auto’} | ft __Server,name,startmode,state
Thanks to my friend Sarvesh for the tip.
- Thanks, Jinesh.
Need an advanced alternative to RoboCopy? Sure.
You need RichCopy.
From Joshua Hoffman on TechNet Magazine: RichCopy is a free utility that comes to us from Ken Tamaru of Microsoft. The tool was first developed in 2001 and has been updated regularly to keep pace with evolving needs. Trust me when I tell you, this is the answer to all your file copying needs. What you’ll find most striking the first time you take RichCopy out for a spin is that it’s a multithreaded copying tool. That means that rather than copying one file at a time in serial order, RichCopy can open multiple threads simultaneously, allowing many files to be copied in parallel and cutting the total time required to complete the operation several times over. You can also pause and resume file copy operations, so if you lose network connectivity at any point, you can just pick up where you left off.
Original post and download link.
- Thanks, Jinesh.
How to best use Outlook 2007 – Best Practices from the creators of Outlook 2007
From Melissa MacBeth’s post in the Outlook team blog:
On the Outlook team, we are frequently asked: “what is the ‘right way’ to use Outlook?” Sure enough, there is no “right way” to work in Outlook—but, as the product team, we did design it with certain best practices in mind. Specifically, there are some best practices that make you more efficient at getting your job done while using Outlook.
Basic principles of good time management
- Reduce the number of places you read e-mail – Filter all of the messages you need to read into one place — your Inbox — using a series of rules.
- Let some e-mail pass by – Use rules to send e-mail you need to read to your Inbox and then let the rest flow into distribution list folders, untouched. You don’t need to read every message sent to you. Only the important ones should go to your Inbox. Remaining messages can be useful to keep — in case you get looped in on an issue, for example.
- Reduce the number of places where you manually file messages – Reduce the mental tax of filing by relying on search to locate messages.
- Process your e-mail using the 4 Ds – When reading a message, decide whether to:
- Delete it.
- Do it (respond or file for reference).
- Delegate (forward) it.
- Defer it (using categories and flags) for a second review in your task list.
- Reduce your to-do list to one list – Use a single to-do list and calendar to manage what you need to do.
- Work in batches – Use categories to help you group similar tasks together.
- Use good judgment when sending e-mail - Follow the dos and don’ts of writing great e-mail. Review your time and tasks regularly.
Even if you don’t subscribe to all of the best practices described here, following just a few will improve your experience with Outlook 2007.
