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Outlook 2007 Command-line Switches

  • Friday, September 18th 2009

What are commands and switches? Each time you start the program, you run the outlook.exe command, although you do not usually type the command or even see it. You can change certain aspects of how the program starts by adding subcommands called switches to the outlook.exe command.

Windows 7 shortcuts

  • Saturday, September 12th 2009

Windows Explorer keyboard shortcuts: Alt+UP – Go up a folder Alt+Left- Go back (previous folder) Alt+Right – Go forward (from go back) Alt+d – Select Address Bar path F4 – Address Bar drop down, history, selection Alt+Enter – Properties of the selected file Ctrl+Mousewheel – change the icons size F11 – Fullscreen mode (does not seem very useful) Other Windows keyboard shortcuts: Win+e – Open Windows Explorer Win+f – Find files Ctrl+Win+f – Find computers Win+Tab – Cycle forward through open Taskbar items Shift+Win+Tab – Cycle backwards through open Taskbar items Win+m – Minimize all windows (may not minimize some…

Making IT profitable?

  • Saturday, July 25th 2009

So you have a truly great IT department, from the CIO down, but IT is still a cost center. Why not offer their services to other organization at fair market value and at least make it a zero sum cost? – More to follow soon —

Exchange 2007 PowerShell DistributionGroup commands

  • Thursday, July 9th 2009

Here aresome PowerShell cmdlets for working with distribution group in exchange 2007 Get-DistributionGroup – Retrieves properties of a distribution group New-DistributionGroup – Creates a new distribution group Remove-DistributionGroup – Deletes a distribution group Set-DistributionGroup –  Set Properties on a distribution group

How To Create New Exchange 2007 Contacts

  • Thursday, July 9th 2009

You can create (aka import) email contacts in Exchange 2007 from the command line using PowerShell (the Exchange Console). The PS script will read the contact information from a CSV file. Here is the powershell (Exchange Console) script/command: Import-Csv contacts.csv | ForEach { New-MailContact -Name $_.displayName -ExternalEmailAddress $_.Emailaddress -OrganizationalUnit “domain.com/company/email/contacts” } NOTE: be sure to adjust the -OrganizationalUnit parameter in the command above. CSV file: (contacts.csv) displayName,Emailaddress Mike Wood,michael@example.com John Q. Customer,johnc@example.org etc,etc@example.net

DOS variables: %date% and %time%

  • Wednesday, July 8th 2009

Need to do some date and/or time manipulation in a DOS batch/command file? Here is a good example: set filedatetime=%date:~10%-%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%_%time:~0,2%%time:~3,2%%time:~6,2%%time:~9,2% echo %filedatetime% 2009-01-28_15120393 Hope this helps you with your batch files.

Error Starting Outlook 2007

  • Monday, July 6th 2009

Error: “Cannot start Microsoft Office Outlook. Cannot open the Outlook window.” Fix: Orb/Start -> run… -> Outlook.exe /resetnavpane

Cisco ASA 5505 blocking Internet Radio

  • Sunday, June 28th 2009

regueiro writes: I have blocked Internet radio who use port 80. You should inspect the port and you can add this commands regex audio-mpeg “audio/.*” policy-map type inspect http test_radio parameters protocol-violation action drop-connection log match response header content-type regex audio-mpeg drop-connection log match request header user-agent regex _default_windows-media-player-tunnel drop-connection log class global-class-test inspect http test_radio To help you, use a sniffer and capture radio traffic and see http headers. It is easy to block streaming from media-player, but for other I check the response header and when I see audio/* (like audio/* where * can be mpeg, x-mpeg, mpeg3,…

ASA 5505 to block Internet radio

  • Sunday, June 21st 2009

regueiro writes: I have blocked Internet radio who use port 80. You should inspect the port and you can add this commands regex audio-mpeg “audio/.*” policy-map type inspect http test_radio parameters protocol-violation action drop-connection log match response header content-type regex audio-mpeg drop-connection log match request header user-agent regex _default_windows-media-player-tunnel drop-connection log class global-class-test inspect http test_radio To help you, use a sniffer and capture radio traffic and see http headers. It is easy to block streaming from media-player, but for other I check the response header and when I see audio/*   (like audio/*  where * can be mpeg,  x-mpeg,…

VBS to Validate Signed Code

  • Friday, June 19th 2009

MSDN article The following sample VBScript code will verify a Signed file: Dim Signer, File, ShowUI, FileOK Set Signer = CreateObject(“Scripting.Signer”) File = “c:\newfile.wsf” ShowUI = True FileOK = Signer.VerifyFile(File, ShowUI) If FileOK Then WScript.Echo File & ” is trusted.” Else WScript.Echo File & ” is NOT trusted.” End If

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