Random Technical Artices By Sachin Filinto

Random Technical Artices By Sachin Filinto

Hosting Virtual Machines in Azure IaaS - Part 2 Prepare the session

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Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 06/26/2014

Spelunking with the Key Management Server (KMS) to activate office 2013.

Some learnings of the week gone by… Methods of activating Office 2013 1. Multiple Activation...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 06/25/2014

Hosting Virtual Machines in Azure IaaS - Part 1 Prepare the Workstation for connecting to the azure subscription

I have been using azure for hosting my virtual machines for several months. I will not list the...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 06/19/2014

How to Migrate Distribution Groups Across a Forest

Building on my previous couple of blogs on Cross-Forest Migration, in this blog I will describe how...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 03/17/2014

Flesch Reading Ease

  Thanks to an internal communiqué, I recently came across a Readability test of word...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 05/23/2013

Patching Exchange 2010 Servers

  I Often get questions around how best to install Exchange updates or service packs. This Blog...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 04/29/2013

Some Quick Leanings of Exchange 2013

  *Features ~95.5% reduction in IOPS Exchange 2013 is capable of being deployed in a multi-site...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 03/22/2013

Executing Exchange PowerShell commands from a CMD Prompt

A Quick blog on how to execute an Exchange PowerShell script (.ps1 extension) from a command prompt....

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 03/20/2013

A Quick Note on ADMT Versions & Pre-requisites.

ADMT At the time of writing this Blog; ADMT 3.1 - 32 Bit version. ( Will not install on Windows...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 01/13/2013

Moving to a new forest and retaining the same SMTP domain ( with native scripts ) - Part II

  3. Moving the Active Directory account using ADMT ADMT is a great tool for Migrating and...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 01/08/2013

Moving to a new forest and retaining the same SMTP domain ( with native scripts ) - Part I

The purpose of this blog is to document how a cross-forest migration is done with native Exchange...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 10/17/2012

Architecting Virtual Workloads - Exchange 2010

Some months back I delivered a session on virtualizing exchange server for Microsoft Partners who in...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 10/09/2012

Sharing files with users on the internet using fuselabs

Given that everything is now moving to being cloud based, I tried using DriveSpace for sharing an...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 03/26/2011

Finding Commands On the Office 2007/2010 Ribbon.

With Office 2007 & 2010 coming up with a Ribbon, Struggling to find where the command / feature...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 01/30/2011

Some more blogs....

When i Travel the Juices of thought flow. given that i have been Travelling this week after a long...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 01/30/2011

Windows Hot-fixes needed for Exchange 2010 Sp1

I dint find this well documented anywhere hence I put together this Blog post on the required...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 10/13/2010

New Calendar Publishing features of Exchange 2010.

You may have heard of an Outlook feature to publish a calendar to the internet. ( link available in...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 10/11/2010

Server Hardening

Two incidents in a month prompted me to write this blog; Incidents where I spent so much time in...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 10/06/2010

Cleaning up personal information from office documents.

Do this. Pickup any office document ( Word , Excel, Powerpoint ) which was sent across to you &...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 07/23/2010

Prevent Reply-all without IRM

And then there was IRM which allowed an e-mail sender to restrict a recipient from reply-all...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 07/03/2010

Some 'work In progress blogs'

Solving the family tree challenge with Visio ( long one ) securing printing removing hidden document...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 07/02/2010

Using Mailmerge to send bulk customized e-mails.

Ever wanted to send an invite to a whole lot of people by e-mail & wanted it to look...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 07/02/2010

Creating holidays in outlook

Here is a little known way to add a list of holidays to your calendar or the calendar of multiple...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 06/02/2009

My First Blog On Technet.

Finally on TechNet & Here goes my first blog using OneNote. Although I am not new to blogging, I...

Author: Sachin Filinto Date: 06/01/2009