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How to restrict a user from sending or receiving any emails
Mar 8th
I came across this interesting question over on technet last week:
Hi,
Is there a way to restrict Mailbox owner from sending internal and external mails?
Are there any restrictive permissions which can be set on the user object in AD which will deny the user from sending any mails from his mailbox. The user should be able to receive and read the mails from the mailbox.I have tried the option to set the sending limit of the user to 1 KB however i need to know if we can achieve this using permissions.
Mahendra
At first glance you may think that this is tricky to implement and requires messing around with permissions or server settings but as long as you are using Exchange 2007 or Exchange 2010 it is easy to implement (and more importantly, easy to manage!), and it is a great way to introduce how to work with Transport Rules.
How to Mount a VMware Virtual Disk in Windows
Feb 24th
Here is handy tool that is part of VMware Workstation, but isnt as well know as some features but can be a real timesaver!
Let’s say your working on a Virtual Machine however it is turned off but you quickly need to pull an important file from it to use or check something you would normally have to go through the process of booting the whole VM to get to the file which may not be desirable if it takes a while to boot the VM, or you dont have the spare RAM (maybe you already have another VM or two running).
Handy Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 Guide
Feb 19th
Just been reading this guide over at http://msexchangegeek.com and think that anyone who is planning an Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010 migration should give it a read as it includes some additional steps to take that aren’t included in Microsoft’s Exchange Deployment Tool such as moving the OAB generation to the new server aswell as upgrading the address lists from LDAP filters to OPATH and upgrading Email Address Policies.
Setting up Cacti SNMP Monitoring on a Windows 2003 Server
Feb 12th
So this week I’ve been taking a break from planning our Exchange 2010 migration and have been playing around with Cacti as currently we have very little data on things like network and server usage short of a couple of key websites being monitored by an external site to track uptime, but absolutely nothing to tell us if servers are being overloaded or that our internet connection is being saturated.
For those who haven’t heard of Cacti before, its an open-source PHP based frontend that can be used to graph pretty much any data source you can feed it with the most popular source being SNMP which pretty much any business class network enabled bit of electronics supports these days. Even if you only have quite a small network like ours, it can be very useful to actually visualise whats going on, and its a lot easier to show your boss a graph showing how your internet connection is maxed out and needs replacing/upgrading than any other way!
Thank you XKCD
Feb 9th
After a horrible morning of not sleeping, then finally getting to sleep just *after* I turned my alarm off, then missing the train and then finally getting stuck in the queue from hell in the shop round the corner from work I finally got a chance to catch up on yesterdays XKCD comic, if your not already a fan give it a read and you soon will be. Anyway, since sharing is caring, heres yesterdays strip:
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