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Exchange 2013 RTM CU1 Delayed

Today the Microsoft Exchange Team announced that they are delaying the long awaited CU1 update for Exchange 2013 RTM. This cumulative update was originality promised to the IT community by the end of 1st quarter ’13. Due to a last minute bug discovered during TAP testing the Exchange Team decided to pull the update so they could [...]

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Cool New Features from Exchange 2010 SP3

  Yesterday the Microsoft Exchange Team announced the release of Exchange 2010 SP3. While Exchange 2010 SP3 “adds support” for a 2010/2013 consistence we still need to wait for Exchange 2013 CU1 to be released before we can start rolling out new 2013 servers in existing Exchange Orgs. Below is the note from the Exchange [...]

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Set Calendar Permissions v2

I was recently requested to add “Reviewer” rights for a specific user on every calendar hosted on my Exchange 2010 SP1 environment. Looking to automate the process I started looking around for a way to complete this task via PowerShell. I came across a script written by Jan Egil Ring that adds “Reviewer” permissions for [...]

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Query ESX Hostname from VM using PowerCLI & vmtoolsd

One of the engineers at work pointed me to a post by @lamw in his blog article “How To Extract Host Information From Within a VM” in the article @lamw talks about creating dynamic variables on a VM that can be queried via vmtoolsd command inside the VM itself. This is a very cool idea [...]

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CPU: 26 GHz
RAM: 64 GB
Storage: 2 TB


ESX Hosts: 2
Resource Pools: 1
Virtual Machines: 13


VMotions: 35
Power States:
11 VMs on(11) 11 VMs off(2) 11 VMs suspended(0)



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