Monthly Archives: July 2012

Styling the Windows welcome screen (Interactive Logon)

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Many people say you can't format the login screen in Windows to display a legal notice, company message, whatever.  They are indeed true... to a degree.

Earlier this afternoon I came across this issue and was not going to settle for not having spaces between my paragraphs.  To solve this, you can use a ridiculous amount of spaces between paragraphs to simulate the break (I tried multiple special characters for spacing, but all of them either get trimmed or hide the rest of the text).  Additionally, you can use special alt characters for some formatting (quotes, bullets, etc.).  If you don't have a keyboard with a keypad to type the special characters, you can open up word, insert a symbol into the document and copy and paste it over using the Control+C and Control+V keyboard shortcuts.

The only downside to this method is that only 512 characters will show up on Windows 2000 machines, but if you are still on Windows 2000, then I would strongly encourage you to update to a later operating system.

Exchange 2010 Won't Sync Mobile Device Mailbox For One User

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Today I stumbled across some weird stuff where one individual account wasn't able to synchronize on their iPhone/Droid. They would sign in and get an error saying the "Connection to the server was unavailable."

To fix this, simply follow the steps below! 🙂
Open Active Directory Users and Computers -> View > Advanced Features.
Find the user with the problems connecting, Right-Click -> Properties.
Click the Security tab -> Advanced and make sure that the check box for "Include inheritable permissions from this object's parent" is checked.

How to setup open relay for a specific server in Exchange

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Here is the article on how to make it happen!

http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2006/12/28/3397620.aspx

PowerShell Script To Create Folders From CSV

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This script will read in a csv named users.csv and create a bunch of directories from it. A log file will be written named logfile.log

###########################################################
# MODIFIED: Jack Stromberg
# DATE : 7/19/2012
# COMMENTS: $_.FirstName and $_.LastName are the column names in the csv file
###########################################################
# Get current directory and set import file in variable
$path = Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
$newpath = $path + "\users.csv"
# Define variables
$log = $path + "\logfile.log"
$date = Get-Date
# FUNCTIONS
Function createDirs
{
"Created following directories (on " + $date + ") " | Out-File $log -append
"--------------------------------------------" | Out-File $log -append
Import-CSV $newpath | ForEach-Object {
$dir = $path + "\" + $_.FirstName + "." + $_.LastName + "\"
$dir = $dir.ToLower()
New-Item $dir -type directory
}
}
# RUN SCRIPT
createDirs
#Finished

How to power off a hanging VM in ESXi

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So to do this in ESXi, see this tutorial: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1014165

I found out that the commands from ESX are completely different, so if you are receiving the "vmware-cmd" not recognized, you are probably running ESXi and need to use the commands from the KB article above.

How to redirect to HTTPS OWA on Exchange 2010

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Here is an excellent article on how to do it: http://briandesmond.com/blog/redirecting-owa-urls-in-exchange-2010/

PowerShell - Disabled Execution

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If you see an error like this in PowerShell:
File ****************** cannot be loaded because the execution of scripts is disabled on this system. Please see "get-help about_signing" for more details.

Execute the following command:
Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned