Posts Tagged Microsoft
Are you Binging yet?
Posted by Sheen in Tech Stuff on September 2, 2009
Bing sure is a funny name for a search engine. The only other Bing I know is Mr Chandler Bing and he was funny. This Bing however is serious stuff. For the first time since Google came around, it has serious competition and for the first time I (a serious Google search user) have started considering another search engine as an alternative. It is still early days for Bing and there sure will be a lot of improvements in the pipeline but Bing doesn’t fail to impress. Mr Ballmer must be very happy to hear about Bing’s apparent early success.
Who is competition for the mighty Google search engine? On paper, there is Yahoo! search, Ask search, and now Bing search. If you have used it you will find how close Bing is to being a real threat to Google. Bing is already making bigger plans for the future by teaming up with Wolfram Alpha.
Watch out Google!
What is the weight of Data?
Posted by Sheen in Tech Stuff on August 25, 2009
This HAS to be the most hilarious technical thread ever! A question was posted on one of Microsoft’s technical forums (by a person who apparently created that ID just to ask this question) to find out why his laptop was getting heavier the more he used it. The question sure was innocently dumb but the answers are wickedly funny. A great read.
Click here to read the article.
The WinRoute tool
Posted by Sheen in Windows Server on July 18, 2009
WinRoute.exe is a tool that can be used to view and easily understand a complicated Exchange email routing topology. This tool is a recommended first step towards troubleshooting Exchange Email routing issues.
To install the tool, go through the following checklist:
Exchange 2007 Recreate OWA folders
Posted by Sheen in Windows Server on June 18, 2009
If you face an issue where OWA in Exchange 2007 stops working, there is a pretty cool powershell command you can run to recreate the OWA virtual directory. The following commands will get you going:
This command will list all the current virtual directories.
Get-OwaVirtualDirectory
This command will delete the “owa” virtual directory under the Default Web Site.
Remove-OwaVirtualDirectory -identity "owa (Default Web Site)"
This command will re-create the “owa” virtual directory under the Default Web Site.
New-OWAVirtualDirectory -OWAVersion "Exchange2007" -Name "owa (Default Web Site)"
When you run this command, if you get an error as follows, it is possible that IIS is set to work in the 32 bit mode and not the required 64 bit mode.
New-OwaVirtualDirectory : An error occurred while creating the IIS virtual directory ‘IIS://mailserver.somewhere.com/W3SVC/1/ROOT/owa’ on ‘mailserver’.
At line:1 char:24
+ New-OWAVirtualDirectory <<<< -OWAVersion "Exchange2007" -Name "owa" -Website "Default Web Site"
To make IIS work in the 64 bit mode, you need to run the following command:
cscript %SYSTEMDRIVE%\inetpub\adminscripts\adsutil.vbs SET W3SVC/AppPools/Enable32bitAppOnWin64 0
Just in case you do not have the adsutil.vbs script in your adminscripts folder, you can download it from here.
Drop me a line to let me know if this post has helped you!
Setting up Split Brain DNS in Windows Server 2003
Posted by Sheen in Windows Server on April 28, 2009
Most organizations have internal and external DNS servers and in many cases, the default internal DNS zone may differ from the externally referenced DNS zone. For example, the internal DNS zone could be called domain.com and the external DNS zone could be called external.domain.com. The internal DNS zone could be active directory integrated and will try to respond to all queries for external.domain.com and queries will fail since there arent any entries for external.domain.com in the internal DNS server.
In such a situation, instead of maintaining both zones internally and externally, it would be better and safer (avoiding human error) to setup a Split Brain DNS server to automatically forward all DNS queries for external.domain.com to the publicly hosted DNS server.
This is how it is done:
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