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Month: Mar 2017

Basic Tintri Storage Tasks with Powershell

Download Tintri powershell tools here: http://urbannerd-consulting.com/?page_id=7094 Launch the Tintri Powershell Module Next we will connect to the Tintri Server Using the following command : Connect-TintriServer TintriServer (zactst01) Next you will be prompted to provide “Super Admin” Credentials for the Tintri Storage Device Next screen will show that we made a successful connection to the device…

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How to Manually Configure Outlook for Office 365

How to Manually Configure Outlook for Office 365. This is especially handy if you encounter issues with auto-discover attempting to connect to the Exchange server. Here’s a quick guide that walks you through the process of manually configuring Outlook for Office 365, on both Windows 7 and 8. Go to https://www.testexchangeconnectivity.com Go to the Office 365 tab…

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VMware vs Hyper-V – Virtualization Battle

VMware vs Hyper-V is the hot topic in the virtualization Market because more than half of all server workloads are virtualized currently. It will be expected to increase by 86% in 2016. So it is very important to understand the comparison and feature offering by leading Virtualization providers VMware vs Hyper-V. VMware is still a dominant…

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How to Disabled OWA Signatures in Office 365 for all Staff.

This is normally done if a 3rd Party email branding software like exclaimer or CodeTwo is being used. Native to Office 365 (Exchange Online) there is a great way to prevent users from Enabling Signatures in OWA : Disable OWA Signatures. First lets create a connection to Office 365 Powershell. $UserCredential = Get-Credential Next lets create…

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DHCP Server UI displaying wrong IP address in Windows 2012 (169.254)

Got to help out with a customer with a very interesting query. Authorized DHCP server not showing the correct server name or IP instead it comes up as a (169.254.X ) IP. To resolve this issue or incorrect GUI Display we need to change the NIC binding with the steps below. How to set/view the…

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Find MAC Addresses of member NICs in a Native Windows Team

This article describes how to get the MAC addresses of all member Network Interface Cards (NICs ) in Native Windows Network Teams  present in a Windows Server 2012/2012 R2 using PowerShell. There are lot of instances where the network communications fail when we are teaming up the incorrect network interfaces. Especially when the team members…

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Creating fine grained password policies through GUI Windows server 2012

A quick description of fine grained password policies is that you can specify multiple password policies within a single domain. You can use fine-grained password policies to apply different restrictions for password and account lockout policies to different sets of users in a domain One of the nice features introduced in Windows Server 2010 “Server…

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Customize junk e-mail protection for Outlook for mac

You can adjust the junk e-mail filter so that it classifies more or fewer messages as “junk.” IMPORTANT: Junk e-mail protection is available in Outlook for Mac 2011 for all supported e-mail accounts except Exchange. On the Tools menu, click Junk E-mail Protection. Choose the level of junk e-mail protection that you want. NOTE: Unless the level…

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