October 2012 - Posts

It's Only Weird if it Doesn't Work
Sun, Oct 28 2012 19:21
Meet Timmy. Timmy is a pitcher for the San Francisco Giants. I got this Tim Lincecum bobble head at the August 27th, 2011 fan appreciation day. Timmy sits on my desk at home. Meet Carl. Carl is a zombie. My kids adopted Carl for me for Christmas in 2011...
by The EXPTA {blog}
How to Configure Public and Private Computer Settings in OWA 2013
Sun, Oct 28 2012 1:25
The new "streamlined user interface" in Exchange 2013 no longer allows users to select whether they are using a public or private computer to access Outlook Web App. By default, OWA 2013 assumes your are using a private computer and uses the...
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RPC Client Encryption in Exchange 2013
Sat, Oct 27 2012 18:50
Exchange 2013 enables RPC client encryption by default (again). I say "again" because it was an option in Exchange 2007 and became the default setting in Exchange 2010 RTM. This caused a fair amount of trouble for organizations using Outlook...
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Allowing Messages to be Sent to Recipients of Internal and External Relay Domains
Thu, Oct 25 2012 18:11
If you have Exchange 2010 Edge Transport servers in your environment you probably have Recipient Filtering configured to " Block messages sent to recipients that do not exist in the directory ". This setting configures the Edge Transport server...
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How to Boot Directly into Desktop with Windows Server 2012
Thu, Oct 18 2012 10:33
I love Windows Server 2012, I really do. But who's bright idea was it to boot to the "Modern UI" (aka, Metro) instead of the Windows Desktop? There's really no reason for this, so I wrote a PowerShell script that configures Windows Server...
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One-Day Midlife Crisis #FTW
Wed, Oct 10 2012 0:40
Today. Was. Awesome. I spent the day at Club Sportiva in San Jose on one of their Exotic Car Tours. Five other drivers and I drove European supercars through the winding roads of the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve, Woodside, and along the Pacific Coast...
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How to Convert Hyper-V VHD Disks to VHDX
Mon, Oct 8 2012 20:15
Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V offers a new virtual disk type called VHDX. VHDX virtual disks have many benefits, including larger maximum disks up to 64TB, protection against data corruption, and improved alignment of the virtual hard disk format to work...
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