Quick & Dirty: Restart server at a specific time and notify by e-mail

Here is another small script from the "Quick & Dirty" series. The script can restart a server and sends a mail with the status: #Server restart $servername = "SERVER01" $to = "frank@frankysweb.de" $from = "rebooter@frankysweb.de" $smtpserver = "smtp.frankysweb.local" Send-MailMessage -To $to -From $from -SmtpServer $smtpserver -Subject "Restart for server $servername" -body "The server $servername ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 5: Debian 7 + HAProxy)

Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more

Delete old IIS logs

Unfortunately, the IIS web server does not offer the option of automatically deleting older log files. Either you write log files to disk continuously, or only one with a selectable size. I have therefore created a small script which deletes the log files after a selectable period of time. The script is available for download: Using a scheduled task, the script can be ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 4: Windows Server 2012 R2 + web application proxy)

Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more

SAN Best Practices for Exchange Server 2013

Ich möchte an dieser Stelle ein paar Best Practice Anleitungen zum Thema Storage / SAN und Exchange Server 2013 veröffentlichen, bisher habe ich diese Dokumente gefunden: EMC: http://www.emc.com/collateral/white-papers/esrp-white-paper-emc-vnx5700-unified-storage-60000-users-virtualized-microsoft-exchange-server-2013-mailbox-resiliency-storage-solution.pdf Netapp: http://www.netapp.com/us/system/pdf-reader.aspx?pdfuri=tcm:10-113952-16&m=tr-4221.pdf HP MSA: http://h20195.www2.hp.com/v2/GetDocument.aspx?docname=4AA4-7540ENW&doctype=white%20paper&doclang=EN_US&searchquery=keywords=(OR)%20san%20&cc=us&lc=en Hat vieleicht noch jemand Links zu anderen Herstellern / Dokumenten die man hier aufnehmen könnte?

Restore mailboxes from Exchange database with free Veeam tool

Veeam offers a free option for backing up and restoring virtual Exchange servers. With the Veeam Explorer for Exchange it is even possible to restore individual mails. Exchange 2013 is also already supported. Today I successfully restored a mailbox from a database using Veeam Explorer and exported it to a PST file. The tool is very easy to ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 3: Windows Server 2012 R2 + ARR 2.5)

Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more

Exchange 2013 Configurator

Today I finished the Exchange 2013 Configurator version. As in the version for Exchange 2010, a few settings are queried and Exchange is configured accordingly. The following settings are made: Outlook Anywhere URL ActiveSync URL EWS URL OAB URL Autodiscover URL OWA URL ECP URL Accepted domain Default send connector Name of the database Path of the ... Read more

PowerShell: Read out the memory consumption of a process remotely (WMI)

WMI queries can be used to find out how much memory a specific process requires on a computer. The following script searches for computers with a specific name in the Active Directory and then reads out the working memory of the computer and the process: $Procname = "outlook" $Namefilter = "CLT" $dnssuffix = ".frankysweb.local" #---------------------- $computers = Get-ADComputer -Filter * | ... Read more

The search for a Forefront TMG replacement (Part 2: Sophos UTM 9.1)

Forefront TMG has now been discontinued and a replacement will have to be found sooner or later. There are now several manufacturers who are filling the gap left by Forefront TMG. I will test some promising solutions and publish a howto for each of them. Finally, there will be an article comparing the solutions with each other. Read more