After installing the Windows 8 Consumer Preview, I have found myself frequently switching between the Metro and Desktop App. The following keyboard guide is useful as it lists all of the shortcuts:
I find myself frequently using Windows Key + I to power off my machine and Windows Key + Q to search for Apps.
We’ve had a few issues recent in regards to the CRM 2011 Outlook add-in on Windows 8.
The issues manifested there selves in a two different ways.
We resolved this by adding the “Windows Identity Foundation 3.5” and all started working.
Here’s quite a useful command that will come in handy while troubleshooting name resolution issues. The below command will show you all the entries in your DNS cache and will help you identify if it needs to be cleared as it may be holding an old IP address for a certain hostname.
ipconfig /displaydns
Just a quick useful command to show the amount of white space in your Exchange Database
Get-MailboxDatabase -Status | Select-Object Server,Name,AvailableNewMailboxSpace
The command issues an output like below
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Evaluation has now been released!
You can download it from the following location http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=29066
“Microsoft SQL Server 2012 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence.
SQL Server 2012 enables a cloud-ready information platform that will help organizations unlock breakthrough insights across the organization as well as quickly build solutions and extend data across on-premises and public cloud backed by capabilities for mission critical confidence:
Just a quick PowerShell script we’ve wrote that will basically alert you when a Replay Queue Length goes above a configured threshold (In the below Scripts Case it’s a 1000 but you can alter to what you want)
It’s best to configure the below PowerShell to run in task scheduler on your server on an hourly occurrence . Please note an email will only be triggered when the Queue length goes above the value you’ve specified.
Please Edit the Below highlighted in red to suit your needs and then save the script to a PS1 and your all ready to run it 
Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.Exchange.Management.PowerShell.E2010
Function sendEmail ([String] $body)
{
$MailMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage
$MailMessage.From = EmailAddressFrom@Email.com
$MailMessage.To.Add(EmailAddressTo@Email.com)
$MailMessage.Subject = "Replay Queue Length Above 1000"
$MailMessage.Body = $body
$MailMessage.Priority = "High"
$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient
$SMTPClient.Host = "ExchangeServerName"
$SMTPClient.Send($MailMessage)
}
Get-MailboxServer | Get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus | ForEach {
If ($_.ReplayQueueLength -gt "1000")
{
$body += "ServerName"
$body += "`r`n "
$body += $_.MailboxServer
$body += "`r`n "
$body += "Database"
$body += "`r`n "
$body += $_.DatabaseName
$body += "`r`n "
$body += "Replay Queue Length"
$body += "`r`n "
$body += $_.ReplayQueueLength
$body += "`r`n "
$body += "`r`n "
$body += "`r`n "
$body += "`r`n "
}
}
if ($Body -ne $null)
{
sendemail $Body}"
The Outpoint to email will be like below
ServerName
TempServer
Database
TempDB
Replay Queue Length
9482
While running Exchange 2010 SP1, We recently came across the error below after attempting to add a mailbox database copy using the Exchange Management Console:
Solution:
Add the database copy using the Exchange Management Shell with the Add-MailboxDatabaseCopy command
We came across an issue recently where we have a few alerts flagged up on our monitoring system (SCOM 2007 R2) in regards to the below Exchange error.
Object [CN=Test,OU=Test,DC=Test,DC=com]. Property [HomeMtaServerId] is set to value [Test.com/Configuration/Deleted Objects/Microsoft MTA
DEL:Guid], it is pointing to the Deleted Objects container in Active Directory. This property should be fixed as soon as possible.
The issue is as said above that the HomeMTA value is set to deleted objects.
You can run the following in the Exchange Management Shell to quickly resolve the issue, add the username above into the below PowerShell command. This will correct the HomeMTA value to the correct setting.
Get-Mailbox “MailboxMentionedAbove” | update-recipient
Skype Beta has been released today and is now available for download from the Marketplace for your Window 7.5 Phone . You can download via the following link http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/c3f8e570-68b3-4d6a-bdbb-c0a3f4360a51 
Note: This blog is written as if you are migrating a user from Windows XP with Office 2003 to Windows 7 with Office 2010.
If are migrating a user to a new computer coupled with an upgrade to Outlook 2003 you can import the nickname file from Outlook 2003 into the new Outlook 2010 suggested contacts:
1. Copy the NK2 file from the old machine which is usually located in C:/Documents and Settings/USERNAME/Application Data/Microsoft/Outlook. This file may be hidden and is called the same as the Outlook profile.
2. Put the NK2 file in the following location on the new PC. %appdata%\Microsoft\Outlook
3. Open control panel –> Mail and click on the Show Profiles button:
4. While the mail profile list is open, click on Start –> Run and type in outlook.exe /importnk2 and click on OK
This should launch Outlook and import the addresses into the Suggested Contacts and the users should see the addresses appear from their old Outlook:
Cheers
Paul
