• 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 Restructuring Active Directory Domains ( user accounts, passwords, groups & group membership, computer accounts & much more.) However It is very important...
  • 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. A .ps1 cannot be executed from a Command prompt. to execute it one needs to use a PowerShell shell. Further if this script calls any exchange cmdlet,...
  • 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 hotfixes for Exchange 2010 sp1 on Windows 2008 R2 . As you may already know a total of 6 Hotfixes are required. Kb 979099 http://www.microsoft...
  • Solving The Family Tree Challenge With Visio

    I love Microsoft products. Here is an example of why. Working for Microsoft I get to play around with them for free. This Blog is an example of what I am talking about. A couple of years back my mother started documenting our entire extended family...
  • 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 Groups can be successfully migrated across a forest. I will also list out some gotchas & how they can be addressed. Migrating groups is something...