Exchange forward email to external address

There are many reasons to need to forward on email collected by Microsoft Exchange, such as vacation planning, change of domains or migration to a new system using dual delivery. This is how you set up Exchange forward email to external address.

Its done in two steps because you need to create a contact for Exchange to send too. If you were forwarding internally you only need the first step as the mailbox exists in Exchange already. 

Create a MailContact

Create a MailContact using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mail Contact

2. In the Action pane, click New Mail Contact

3. To create a new Contact object, leave the default (New Contact) selected | click Next

Leaving New Contact selected to move to the extended settings

4. Type First name, Last name

Adding detail to the new user

5. Click Edit to add the external email address

6. Click New to complete creation of new MailContact

Showing new user created in Mail Contact’s

Forward the Email

Now that we have a MailContact created for the external recipient’s email address, we can forward mail for the Exchange recipient to the MailContact. To configure mail forwarding using the EMC:

1. Expand Recipient Configuration | Mailbox | select mailbox | properties | Mail Flow Settings tab | Delivery Options

Finding delivery options for a microsoft exchange mailbox

2. Under Forwarding address, select Forward to
3. Click Browse to select the MailContact

Browse to select the mail contact

4. Optional: If a copy of the message needs to be delivered to both the external recipient and the original recipient’s mailbox, select the Deliver message to both forwarding address and mailbox

Opting to send the email to both internal and external addresses

OWA Forms Based Authentication Failing

Unable to logon to OWA using forms-based authentication

When a user enters valid credentials, they are taken to a blank page https://ExchCASServerName.domain.com/owa/auth.owa.  But if they enter bad credentials, it just redirects to the logon page and asked them to logon again.

"Microsoft Exchange Forms-Based Authentication service." need to be started.

This service was not running and it was set to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" changing it to just "Automatic" allowed it to start properly.

Enable Built-in Administrator Account

Open cmd

net user administrator /active:yes 

Hyper-V Commands

Stop-VM –Name SBS2011

Get-VM

Start-VM-name SBS2011

Get-netadapter
Get-netadapter | select *

You've been logged on with a temporary profile

Log on as a local administrator. Take ownership to the user profile folder.

Method 2

1. If you have another administrator account that is not affected by this user profile error, then sign out of the affected account (ex: Brink), and sign in to the other administrator account. 

2. Back up anything that you do not want to lose in the C:\Users\(user-name) profile folder (ex: Brink) of the affected user account to another location. When finished, delete the C:\Users\(user-name) folder.

3. Press the  + R keys to open the Run dialog, type regedit, and click/tap on OK.

4. If prompted by UAC, then click/tap on Yes.

5. In Registry Editor, navigate to the location below.

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Trust Relationship Between Workstation and Domain Fails

Log on locally as a local administrator . In the Network tool of Control Panel, select Change and enter a Workgroup name, leaving the domain. Restart the computer and log on locally as a local administrator and then rejoin the domain.

Major Spyware & Trojans

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How to Change the Registered PC Owner in Any Version of Windows

Open up regedit.exe through the start menu search box or by pressing WIN + R to open the Run box and typing it there, and then locate the following registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion

To show off the new changes, just type winver.exe into the start menu search box or WIN + R run box to see the About Windows 

Install Webmin on Ubuntu

Webmin is a nice tool to do all server manger job in Linux/Unix based systems. You can access the webmin using any browser through https protocol from any Widows or Linux or Mac os systems.

The installation steps is very easy,

I always like to use vi or vim editior. You can use your user friendly editor.

edit the file /etc/apt/sources.list – it will let you to install and update Webmin via APT (Advance Packaging Tool).

sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list

Put these entries at the end of the file

deb http://download.webmin.com/download/repository sarge contrib

deb http://webmin.mirror.somersettechsolutions.co.uk/repository sarge contrib

save and exit the file.

Now you need to import GPG key so it will connect to www.webmin site to the download and save the key “jcameron-key.asc”.

wget http://www.webmin.com/jcameron-key.asc

sudo apt-key add jcameron-key.asc

Once you give this command – you will get OK

Now update the source-list then install the webmin respectively.

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install webmin

Now you can access your system using webmin

How to boot Windows 2008 R2 Server from usb drive/stick

I have to install Windows 2008 R2 Server on Dell PowerEdge 2950 server and we decide to do this booting and installing it from USB stick. I have a 16 GB USB stick and it is more then enough.

Format the thumb drive

1. from a DOS prompt execute: diskpart
2. list disk
3. select disk 1 (assuming disk 1 was your thumb drive in the above list disk command)
4. clean
5. create partition primary
6. select partition 1
7. active
8. format fs=fat32
9. assign
10. exit

Copy the Win2008 R2 install files

1. xcopy d:\*.* /s/e/f e:\ (assumes your dvd is drive D: and your thumb drive is drive E:\, adjust accordingly)

User Profile Service failed the logon. User profile cannot be loaded.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/186131-user-profile-service-failed-logon-user-profile-cannot-loaded.html

Convert MBR Disk to GPT Disk

In Disk Management

1. Open the Control Panel (icons view), and click on the Administrative Tools icon, then close the Control Panel window.

2. Click on Computer Management in Administrative Tools, then close the Administrative Tools window.

3. If prompted by UAC, click on Yes.

4. In the left pane under Storage, click on Disk Management. 

 5. In the disk (ex: Disk 1) that you want to convert to a GPT disk, right click on each partition and volume on the disk and click on Delete Volume until the whole disk is unallocated space. 

6. Right click on the disk (ex: Disk 1) that you want to convert to a GPT disk, and click on Convert to GPT Disk. 

7. When finished shortly, you can confirm that the disk is a GPT disk if you right click on the disk and it has Convert to MPR Disk instead now.

In a Command Prompt

1. Open an elevated command prompt, and go to step 3 below.

OR

 2. Open a command prompt at boot, and go to step 3 below.

3. In the command prompt, type diskpart and press enter. (See screenshot above)

4. Type list disk and press enter.
NOTE: Make note of the disk number (ex: Disk 1) that you want to convert to a GPT disk.

5. Type select disk # and press enter. 
NOTE: Substitute # with the actual disk number that you want to convert to a GPT disk. For example, select disk 1.

6. Do step 7 or 8 below for what you would like to do.

7. To Use the "Clean" Command to make Disk Unallocated
NOTE: This is the easiest method. It will wipe the disk clean all at once leaving it as unallocated space afterwards.

A) In the command prompt, type clean and press enter.

B) Go to step 9 below.

8. To Manually make Disk Unallocated
NOTE: This method has you manually delete each volume on the disk before converting the disk to GPT.

A) Type detail disk and press enter. If the disk does not have any volumes listed, then you can go to step 8Ebelow.
NOTE: This will give you a list of all the volume numbers on the selected disk number that you will need to delete in steps 7 and 8 below.

B) Type select volume # and press enter.
NOTE: Substitute # with a volume number listed in step 8A. For example, select volume 3.

C) Type delete volume and press enter.

D) Repeat steps 8B and 8C for each volume # listed in step 8A until you have deleted all volume #'s.

E) When done, type select disk # and press enter.
NOTE: You would use the same one from step 5 above. For example, select disk 1.

11. Type convert gpt and press enter.


Note: Shift+F10 to open an Command Prompt on Windows during windows installation 

Virus Spyware cleaning tools for windows

Use this tool tool clean uninstall program and registry
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Clean Malware, Spyware
http://www.malwarebytes.org/

Downloading and Installing - Webmin OpenSUSE

Check the latest version and download

wget http://download.webmin.com/download/yum/webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

Install the RPM file of Webmin with the following command:

rpm -Uvh webmin-1.690-1.noarch.rpm

Turn off the firewall

/sbin/rcSuSEfirewall2 stop

Do access http://OpenSuse-IP:10000/

Do all necessary setting using Webmin