Powershell script to report on total send/received e-mails in Exchange

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  Update: 2017-08-16 – I have published a new version of this script here   This is a simple PowerShell script that pulls all of the send/received e-mails from the Message Tracking log in Exchange 2010 and counts the unique header IDs. It’s fairly accurate but I don’t think it’s 100% bang on. My testing … Read more

Powershell script to create reverse lookups (PTR) in Microsoft DNS

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We’re switching IP spaces at work and need to create a large amount of reverse lookup PTR records for our PAT/NAT pools. Microsoft only allows you to manually create one DNS entry at a time via the GUI so I wrote a simple Powershell script that lets you mass create sequential PTR records.   #################################### … Read more

Symantec Backup Exec RALUS crashes on CentOS 7

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We just deployed our first CentOS 7 machine and are trying to back it up using Backup Exec 2010 R3 and the RALUS agent. After installing the missing compatibility libraries needed for the RALUS: yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.x86_64 the agent installs and starts but once the Media Server connects to it the agent crashes. Some … Read more

How to upgrade CentOS 6 to CentOS 7

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This article comes with a HUGE warning. This was written using beta tools available from here: http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/upg/x86_64/Packages/ I will likely update this article when these tools are no longer in beta and when I perform this on my more complicated production server. Right now I’m testing these packages and this method on a relatively simple … Read more