At The Data Center -by Don Wilwol

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Don is a technical professional with the proven ability to lead assessments, design, installation, and migration projects, devise solutions to critical problems, and transfer knowledge and experience to others.

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Indexes for Article Categories.

Exchange 2007 Articles.
PowerShell Articles and Scripts
VMWare Articles
VB scripting Articles and Scripts
DNS Articles.
Technology Articles
Exchange 2003 Articles
Citrix Article Index
Articles for ITT Students
Security Articles

Exchange 2007

iSCSI Setup on a virtual appliance
Disable IPv6 For Exchange 2007
Explanation of Unicast Versus Multicast NLB.
WINS or No WINS
OWA redirect for Exchange 2007.
WNLB With the CAS and HUB roles on the same Server.
Exchange 2007 CCR Step by Step Install
dw's - Exchange CCR Installation Checklist
Set the default OWA domain
Virtualize Exchange 2007.
Quick Reference Sheet
How to determine if you have a CCR or SCR cluster.
Shared Hosting with Exchange 2007
What type of replication should I use for Exchange 2007
Types of Exchange 2007 Replication.
Exchange 2007 Errors
How many Nodes in a SCC.
Exchange 2007 Notes
If you don't have an Edge server in front of the Hub Transport server.
Exchange 2007 Errors
My Exchange 2007 Install without cluster
Exchange 2007 Step by Step Install
Cluster Continuous Replication

Exchange 2003

Explanation of Unicast Versus Multicast NLB.
Shut down script for Exchange 2003 on a DC
Restore Exchange 2003 to the recovery group
Slow Shutdown of Exchange 2003
My Clustered Exchange 2003 Checklist

VBscripting

VBscript to change user attribute in an OU.
Create an IP Address Excel spreadsheet.
A VBscript script sub to write to the top of a file.
Map the same drive letter to external drives with vbscript.
Use VBscript to map logon scripts and folder redirection in a GPO.
Create a Mail-Enabled Universal Group with VBscript.
Un-check or cleared the “Automatically update e-mail addresses based on recipient policy”

Powershell

Create Users with mailboxes
Powershell notes
Powershell to shut down my ESX Lab server
PowerShell Articles and Scripts
A Computerperformance.com Index
Output colors
Ping with Poowershell.
Creating and reusing a function
VBScript to call a powershell script
Modify user properties of all users in an OU.
Make a choice in PS
Working with objects in the Windows PowerShell
Namespaces maintained by the Windows PowerShell
Running a Powershell Script

General Email

Troubleshooting Bounced Emails
Using telnet to verify POP3 on Exchange.
Telnet For Exchange Troubleshooting

Citrix

Citrix Article Index
Image Citrix Servers

DNS

Help with SPF records.
Reverse DNS. What to do.
TroubleShooting AD DNS
Reverse lookup DNS woo's
Can't decide on domain.com or domain.local for your AD domain

Clustering

Explanation of Unicast Versus Multicast NLB.
Clustering on a Domain Controller

College Stuff

Common Commands
What is RPC
Degree or cert?
Get Experience in the IT field

Windows 2008

Disable IPv6 For Exchange 2007
Windows 2003 to Windows 2008 changes
No NTbackup in 2008 (wbadmin)

Security

Security Checklist
User’s Password Security
Host Based Security

VMWare ESX

Installing ESX 3.5 on Vmware server version 2, build 122589.
Powershell to shut down my ESX Lab server
VMWare Articles
How ESX 3 HA currently calculates failover capacity
VMWare Commands (ESX)

VMWare Server

Installing ESX 3.5 on Vmware server version 2, build 122589.
VMWare Articles
Here is the way I create a VMware Server cluster using Windows 2003.
Kill the process for a Virtual Machine running on VMWare Server.
Create a Virtual Server in VMware (Virtual Server)
How to copy a VMWare image(VMWare Server)

General

WINS or No WINS
Some quick notes.
Subnetting Made Simple
Trying to ping a port - Try Portqry
OBJ::SID and vice versa
FSMO What? Pull it together.
Batch File Command Reference
Common Commands
What is RPC
Configuring DRACS without shutting down the server.
Upgrade to Windows 2003 with hardware that does not support Windows NT 4.0.
Making Cables
Microsoft News Groups
Testing with Telnet
NT 4 upgrade to AD 2003
Configuring DRACS without shutting down the server

Routing and Networking Help

Routing & Networking Links
Subnetting Made Simple

Sites to visit:

itcrutch A pretty good site by Mike Gish

MS Exchange Blog

Windows Server Clustering

Cluster Help by Russ Kaufmann

You Had Me at ELHO

Eileen Brown's WebLog

Jim McBee's Mostly Exchange Web Log

MS Exchange Server Community

MS Scripting Group

Cluster Help by Russ Kaufmann

Evan Dodds - Microsoft Exchange Server Blog

http://www.msterminalservices.org

The Exchange 2007 Wikii

Scripting Sites

Computer Performance

Neat Scripts and Scripting Resources

Microsoft Scripting Center

Exchange Tools
Microsoft's Exchange Exmerge
Microsoft Exchange Server Outlook Web Access Web Administration