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Exchange
How to add additional mailboxes to Outlook 2010
You may have the need to add additional mailboxes in Outlook 2010. To make this happen there are a few things that need to be verified, but these are not difficult at all. The first thing is to make sure…
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Exchange
How to allow a user to open another user’s mailbox Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2003
If you want to add someone else’s inbox in Outlook 2010, this is easily accomplished. There are just a few steps that need to be taken both my the system administrator and you if you are handling your Outlook settings.…
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Cloud
Users can’t login to Office 365 email after migration from Live@Edu
Recently, in working with an educational institution on issues their students were having logging into Office 365 after the mandatory upgrade from Microsoft, we stumbled on a problem and fix that resolved issues many students were having with their account…
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SQL
How to find the SSRS Job Name with the Report Name SQL
In order to check the status of the SSRS report subscription jobs, status, and the last run time, run the following SQL script against the MASTER DB. It will list: report id report name last status SELECT c .Name AS ReportName , rs . ScheduleID AS JOB_NAME , s . [Description]…
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Powershell
Automate joining a workstation to a domain using powershell and a batch file
If you are a network admin looking for an easy way to script the joining of a workstation to a domain perhaps out of an image restore, you can do this easily by using powershell as well as a batch…
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ActiveDirectory
How to delete active directory user accounts with powergui and lastlogontimestamp
One of the best new tools at the system administrator or network administrator’s fingertips is powershell. Powershell was introduced with Windows 2008 and is also standard with Windows 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Powershell provides many cool powerful new features…
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Windows
Windows ADK DISM commands to capture and apply images
With the introduction of the new Accessment and Deployment Kit for Windows 8 which is the new iteration of what we have known as the WAIK for automating installs, Microsoft has deprecated the imagex command to manage, capture, and apply…
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ActiveDirectory
How to manage fine grained password policy with powergui
We here at Computer-howto.com are big fans of the free utility Powergui. Powergui offers a wide range of free powerpacks which offer tremendous control for admins over their environments. One of the huge strengths that Powergui provides is the obvious…
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Windows
Mass Add a user to a local group with a batch file
If you need to add a user from the domain let’s say to the local administrators group on a Windows 7 workstation, you would simply launch “lusrmgr.msc” and add the user to the group. However, if you have to mass…
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Windows
How to backup and restore MySQL DB using MySQL Workbench
For those database administrators out there who mainly deal with Microsoft SQL Server environments, you may wonder what tool you use to interact with MySQL and perform the necessary functions that most admins are used to performing with Microsoft SQL…
