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SharePoint Search Error “Access is Denied”
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2 Jun 2010If you are like me and did a single box farm installation of SharePoint 2010, you might get to an error whenever you have configured your search. I configured the search to crawl my local SharePoint Sites and when it did a full crawl it gave me the following error: Access is denied. Verify that [...]
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I have some users in AD, which had a wrong Telephone property specified. The value was correct specified in the Mobile Phone property, so I wanted to copy this value from every user into the Telephone property. A picture says more than a 1000 words. Off course, PowerShell comes to mind. First I tried it [...]
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Preview of the “new hotmail”
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18 May 2010A preview of what’s coming in the new hotmail. Amongs others: sweep (get rid of clutter) and integration with office live workspaces and skydrive. read more @ source
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New distribution group: couldn’t find object
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17 May 2010On creating a new distribution group in Exchange you could get the following error: Couldn’t find object “<user object in AD>”. Please make sure that it was spelled correctly or specify a different object. Reason: the recipient <user object in AD> isn’t the expected type. You probably logged in with an administrator account, which has [...]
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Exchange 2010: setting room permissions
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17 May 2010To set permission’s on a room mailbox in Exchange 2010, you have to execute the PowerShell command Add-MaiboxFolderPermission. Add-MailboxFolderPermission -identity <roomname>@<domain.com> -user <email address of user who needs access> -AccessRights <AccessRight> The parameter AccessRight specifies the permissions for the user, you can use the following values: ReadItems The user has the right to read items [...]
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recreating folder structure
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17 May 2010I needed to recreate a folder structure from one computer to another. To be ahead of some comments I foresee, one computer did not have powershell or any internet connection (to download powershell), and I was not allowed to install anything. To solve the problem I used “old school” DOS commands. Open a command prompt [...]
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Creating a PowerShell Profile
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5 May 2010You can create a PowerShell profile to set your environment (aliases, modules you want to import, functions,etc..) First of all check if a profile already exists with the command test-path $profile This will return true or false. If no profile exists you can create one with the following command: new-item -type file -path $profile -force [...]
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new-TestCasConnectivityUser.ps1 error OU exists
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4 May 2010When I wanted to create a test user for SCOM 2007 to monitor Exchange, I constantly ran into the error (whenever I ran the script new-TestCasconnectivityUser.ps1): CreateTestUser : Mailbox could not be created. Verify that OU ‘Users’ exists and that password meets complexity requirements. I checked google, and all solutions pointed to the fact that [...]
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- Tags: Exchange, Powershell
Cloud versus On Premise.
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Original Source: here Coca-Cola Enterprises, the soft drink bottling and distribution company, is the world’s largest marketer, producer, and distributor of Coca-Cola products, with around 75,000 employees worldwide and sales in over 200 countries. Coca-Cola Enterprises is an extremely successful corporation but all enterprises, no matter the size and success, can improve. “The tools that [...]