May 2009 - Posts

• Stopping Services in a Specific Order

  A lot of the work that I do in product support involves setting up labs to try and reproduce a problem in order to troubleshoot it. In that arena, one of the most frequent sub tasks is bulk starting and stopping of services. A lot of times the services Read More... Posted Saturday, May 30, 2009 2:41 AM by stephap | 0 Comments Filed under: Scripting, PowerShell, WMI

• Identifying Defunct Organizations (Empty OUs)

  I have quite a nice little script for you today. A customer asked me yesterday how he might identify hosted business organizations which contain no subscribed users so he can remove the empty organizations from HMC. If you’re not familiar with HMC, that Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 7:20 PM by stephap | 1 Comments Filed under: Active Directory, Hosting, Scripting, PowerShell, LDAP, HMC

• Choking on (Very Large) XML Files

  You probably don't know much about what I actually do at Microsoft ( yet ), so now would be a good time to mention that I typically support e-mail hosters who use Microsoft Hosted Messaging and Collaboration (HMC). These type of customer tend to have Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009 6:20 AM by stephap | 0 Comments

• Is this thing on?

  I was under the impression that blogging was for people who kept diaries as children and always send out holiday cards and Thank You notes. (Unfortunately despite my best intention, I'm not a member of that well bred club.) Recently though I've had several Read More... Posted Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:21 PM by stephap | 0 Comments