The other day whilst trying to send an e-mail to a new starter in my organisation I discovered that their name did not appear to be on the Global Address List within my Outlook client (Outlook 2010). Now I knew that the user had been created correctly (and had been several days ago), was also [...]

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I probably should have started to look at Lync Server a long time ago, but I never quite got around to it for one reason or another (I was going to say that I was just being lazy, but in truth I have really not had the time with all the other stuff that I [...]

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The March and April 2012 www.telnetport25.com newsletter(s) are available for download from the following location: [ March / April 2012 Newsletter – 800KB ]

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Re-launch of Service Desk.NET 3.5.1…

by Andy Grogan April 9, 2012

A looooong time ago (in about 2010 I think) I wrote an ASP.NET web enabled application that allowed for a defined group Service Desk users to be delegated password reset access for users within a given organisation. I had initially wrote the code for use within a company that I was working for at the [...]

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Quick Tip – hiberfil.sys on Windows 2003 Server…

by Andy Grogan April 7, 2012

This is not an Exchange focussed post – but it is something that has driven me nuts for the last few days on one server within my Exchange 2007 lab running on Windows 2003 Server which I ported from VMWARE to Hyper-V. The situation was that on this specific LAB server – I found an [...]

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Quick Tip – Programmatically Returning all Distribution Groups in AD within a C# project…

by Andy Grogan April 7, 2012

I am working on a new application at the moment which requires for all Distribution Groups within an Exchange 2010 environment to be populated into a Drop Down list on the default ASP.NET page, and then based upon the selected Distribution group place the SMTP addresses of each member of that group into a list [...]

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MVP Award for 2012 – 4th time’s a charm (and special)…

by Andy Grogan April 1, 2012

I am (almost) speechless – I have just received a notification that I have been re-awarded the status of Exchange MVP for the 4th year running from Microsoft. I am really pleased – and again – humbled and honoured that people who read this site and my community peers still think that all this time [...]

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Quick Tip – Delegating Distribution Group Creation & Management in Exchange 2010…

by Andy Grogan March 25, 2012

I was asked the above question the other day – essentially, how do you have a group of people with delegated access to manage all aspects of Distribution Lists within Exchange 2010? There was a desire to devolve the management of its Distribution Lists the HR section, therefore releasing a number of members from the [...]

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Introducing the Nagios Discovery Tool for Windows…

by Andy Grogan March 25, 2012

Back in February I delivered a preview of a new tool that I had been working on called the “Nagios Discovery Tool for Windows” – or the NDT for short. Since then I have been trying to get a manual for the tool together, but as is the way of my life it has been [...]

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Getting notified of Active Directory Group Membership…

by Andy Grogan March 4, 2012

Ok, whilst this is not a Exchange focussed post, I am hoping that it will help some folks out there. I have over the years been in charge of some quite large Active Directory environments, which naturally have a number of Administrators – some of which are based in many locations and sometimes in different [...]

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