I don’t like Mondays (tell me why), I don’t like Mondaaays–get your Out of Office set automatically if you don’t work on a specific day…

by Andy Grogan on January 31, 2012 · 0 comments

in Exchange 2010 (Admin), Out of Office, Powershell

As the Boom Town Rats (and Sir Bob) said, I don’t like Mondays. Some of you lucky folks don’t have to work on a Monday (or indeed some other days of the week) – so are you tired of setting your Out of Office the night before you are not in the office on a [...]

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Exchange 2010 Out of Office Fun with Set-MailboxAutoReplyConfiguration…

by Andy Grogan on January 29, 2012 · 0 comments

in Exchange 2010 (Admin), Exchange 2010 (Mailbox), Mailbox Databases, OOOCTA, Out of Office, Powershell

In between some of the other stuff that I have been working on; I have also been thinking about the future of the OOOCTA tool. Currently OOOCTA supports both Exchange 2007 SP 1 (and above) as well as Exchange 2010, however the underling code infrastructure is a little complicated to say the least in order [...]

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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu Server 11.10 then Monitoring Windows and Exchange Servers–Part 4–Custom Exchange Monitoring Scripts…

by Andy Grogan on January 21, 2012 · 2 comments

in Exchange 2010 (General), Linux, Linux with Exchange, Monitoring, Nagios, Ubuntu

Ok, I have to admit that this series has been a lot of fun (well for me anyway ~ I have had a blast) – but this part is perhaps by far and away the most fun that I have personally had – as it means that I have needed to develop some sample Powershell [...]

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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu Server 11.10 then Monitoring Windows and Exchange Servers–Part 3–Setting up basic Exchange 2010 Monitoring…

by Andy Grogan January 15, 2012

Welcome to part 3 of my series which is based around how you can use Nagios to monitor both Windows and Exchange Servers. In the previous two posts (Part 1 is located here and Part 2 is located here) – I covered the following: Part 1 Setting up Nagios on Ubuntu Part 2 Setting up [...]

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Exchange 2010 Boot Camp–with Paul Cunningham…

by Andy Grogan January 11, 2012

Fellow Blogger and Exchange expert Paul Cunningham is currently canvassing for attendees for a FREE online Exchange 2010 boot camp. Having attended one of Paul’s sessions online I can highly recommend people sign up and attend – as Paul’s efforts are exceptionally well structured and informative. Any readers of my blog whom would like to [...]

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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu Server 11.10 then Monitoring Windows and Exchange Servers–Part 2–Setting up basic Windows Server Monitoring…

by Andy Grogan January 11, 2012

In the first part of this series I covered how you can get a working instance of Nagios Core on a Ubuntu VMWare server within your environment. What I would like to cover in this part is how you can begin to perform some basic monitoring on a Windows Server within your infrastructure using the [...]

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Off Topic–Staying Alive…

by Andy Grogan January 8, 2012

Very off topic here but it is something that I think might be of interest to some folks. There is a informational commercial on TV in the U.K at the moment for the British Heart Foundation which although quite amusing, delivers a very important message. In essence, the advert stars former Wimbledon Football club “Hard [...]

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Installing Nagios on Ubuntu Server 11.10 then Monitoring Windows and Exchange Servers–Part 1–Configuring Ubuntu for the Installation of Nagios Core…

by Andy Grogan January 7, 2012

Every now and then I like to ramble off and do something with a technology that I would not normally blog about, which also I am by no means an expert in – as it is a learning experience and can be fun!. Recently I have been looking at monitoring solutions mainly in the context [...]

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The mother of all heat sinks…

by Andy Grogan January 3, 2012

Some of you may have read my recent article about my new test lab (which I had to hastily assemble after my old one went to the great testing god in the sky). I finished the article by explaining that if there one thing that I would change about the setup, it would be the [...]

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Update to the RUPS – Announcing the Exchange Update Management System (UMS)…

by Andy Grogan January 1, 2012

I have to confess that it has been a long time since I wrote something that has been so popular both with readers of my site, and indeed myself. For those of you whom have not been following the the life of the “RUPS”, in November 2011 I released the RUPS tool, which was designed [...]

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