Yes it has been few very interestingly busy weeks. Unusual for amount of travel I have been doing. Being dedicated PFE, I am not required to travel this much. But since it’s all for a good cause, I can’t complain. It was an interesting trip because besides my customer, I went to train my fellow PFEs for a week. Delivering world class training, making them Rockstars in Exchange 2010. Now as you can imagine, every PFE hired is already well versed in Exchange 2010 and you  may...

Head over to my Mr. Proactive post here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/mr_proactive/archive/2011/05/05/these-are-not-the-public-folders-you-are-looking-for.aspx

Have you ever been in a situation where you have PowerShell Remoting enabled and you need to put the configuration back the way it was before Enable-PSRemoting was run? While it might seem that just running Disable-PSRemoting should suffice, it turns out to be a bit more work than you would think. Let’s take a look. When you run Disable-PSRemoting, here’s what it tells you: PS C:\Windows\system32> Disable-PSRemoting WARNING: Disabling the session configurations does not undo...

And before you get a shock from the title, let me clarify, all I am talking about is PowerShell Scripting Games 2011 . I had a privilege of being one of the judges this year and I know I haven’t done it enough justice. I was planning to be a lot more active rating scripts as they rolled in. I have been planning to be a lot more involved in spreading wealth of knowledge, while not as much as the scripting guys do, but as much as I can from what I know. I have been planning to…...

Today, Michel de Rooij posted an update to his Exchange 2010 SP1 Network ports diagram. You can find it here . This is a great resource if you ever need to refer to network flow between different roles and well as different clients to server communications. This is too good of information to pass on without sharing. I am sure you will benefit from it if you have anything to do with Exchange server. Huge thanks to Michel for creating this very helpful document.

If you are one of the chess players who play rated USCF (United States Chess Federation) games, you may have used their look up tool to find someone’s rating and other details, or may be your own after you completed a tournament. Being a PowerShell geek, I had to figure out how can I fetch the same information using script or a function. Now that I have it, I’m sharing it here with you. For those of you who have nothing to do with Chess, you may still want to look at the script...

So this one might be pretty simple you say, just use measure-command right? But what if I already ran the command and didn’t time it? What if it took really long time and running it again isn’t an option? This is when built-in history helps! If you run Get-History | Get-Member You will see the following: TypeName: Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HistoryInfo Name MemberType Definition ---- ---------- ---------- Clone Method Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.HistoryInfo Clone...

Have you ever wondered what kind of animal a PFE is? If you are a Microsoft Premier customer and have a dedicated PFE, you know exactly what I am talking about. If you are a Microsoft Premier customer and don’t have a dedicated PFE, you may have come across a PFE once in a while and may know a little about them. If you are not a Microsoft Premier customer and have never heard of a PFE, this post is for you! There are many times I have met people outside of Microsoft who knows...

UPDATED - Fixed issues reporting boottime. 3/20/2012 I was reading Hey, Scripting Guy! article “ Calculating Server Uptime ” and decided to write a script that can do the same. While the article has very nice script that calculates uptime from event log, my script isn’t fancy and simply calculates uptime since last reboot. The script can run on any computer with PowerShell 2.0 and will run against local computer or computers specified by list. If you chose...

I see many asking for comparison between Outlook 2010 and OWA with Exchange Server 2010 mailbox. While I did not have time lately with my commitments and travel, I came across Steve’s recent post which compares the features. He also included Outlook 2011 comparison which is great! Here’s the link to his blog entry: http://www.stevieg.org/2010/11/comparison-outlook-2010-owa-2010-outlook-2011-features/ Thanks Steve for creating the comparison that will benefit many!