Policy commands

There are times when you want to update the policy, and then don’t want to wait for the policy to take affect on the computer. Also sometimes you are not sure what policy is being applied to the computer or user. These two commands will help you save a lot of time. gpupdate – This will refresh the policy on the current computer. I usually use it with a /force /sync switch. It will...

Build your own san or nas for free

Openfiler is a free open source san built on linux, with a web management interface. If you ever wanted to share storage between systems in the past you would need to buy a EMC type device and spend at least $50,000 – $100,000.  Now you don’t with openfiler (www.openfiler.com), all you need is some hard drives, a decent cpu, and some memory and that’s it. You can build your own...

Delaying a batch file command

The below command will allow you batch file to sleep, or be delayed for so many seconds. There are other sleep utilities out there, but if you don’t want to load another piece of software, or just need something quick to delay a command this will work. The below is a 5 second pause. ping 1.1.1.1 -n 1 -w 5000...

How to pst a exchange 2007 mailbox

In this article I’ll show you how to pst a exchange 2007 mailbox for backup purposes. First there are a couple of things you need to understand. PST mailboxes is very time consuming, but this is a great way for small organizations to get a brick level backup. I use symantec for my backups, but I always feel like I need another level of protection for the “just in case” of...

Connect to two exchange servers at the same time

In this article I show you how to connect to two different exchange servers at the same time. We all know the trick create on profile for one exchange server you need to connect to, and then create another profile for the other exchange server you need to connect to. However the problem is you can’t run the two profiles at the same time. Which is a big problem I had because I had a home...