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How to show open files on Windows Server 2003

Issue: You need to show the files users have open on a Windows 2003 Server. Solution: 1) Right click 'My Computer' and click Manage 2) Expand System Tools > Shared Folders > Open Files The list of open files will be shown on the right-side pane along with the users that username of the user who has the file open. Read more [...]

How to use NTFS and Share Permissions in Windows File Sharing

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Below is what you need to know about Share and NTFS Permissions including a step-by-step example of the most common use case. How NTFS and Share Permissions Work When you right click on a file or folder in a Windows server environment you will notice the "Share" tab and "Security" tab. The Share tab > Advanced Sharing represents the Share permissions and the "Security" tab represents the NTFS (or referred to as "file permissions"). How Permissions Work in Windows File Sharing (Share and NTFS Read more [...]

Exchange Storage Quotas – how to decide what to do

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In my experience Quota’s are either per database or per user, they can be made to apply by Active Directory Group via script which essentially applies the quota to each user that is member of the group parsed by the script (I’ll paste an example script at the bottom). If you implement Quota’s on the mailbox databases they will apply to all users immediately. If you enable the ‘prohibit send’ option then that would take effect immediately on existing and new users (generally one has Read more [...]

ESXi 5.5 Update 1

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VMWare ESXi 5.5 Update 1 was released on March 11th, 2014 and is the first major update for ESXi 5.5. Important Notices Regarding ESXi 5.5 Update 1: Frequent NFS APDs after upgrading ESXi to 5.5 Update 1 Issue: When running ESXi 5.5 Update 1, the ESXi host frequently loses connectivity to NFS storage and APDs to NFS volumes are found. Potential Symptoms: Intermittent APDs for NFS datastores are reported, with consequent potential blue screen errors for Windows virtual machine Read more [...]

enable inheritance on all AD user accounts

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Issue: You need to enable permission inheritance on all AD user accounts or a specific group of accounts. Background: Enabling inheritance on AD accounts typically required one to check the "include inheritable permissions..." checkbox on the 'Security Tab > Advanced' screen in ADUC on every user account one at a time (see checkbox of doom). That's a whole lot of clicking! Solution: PowerShell can be used to enable permissions inheritance on a large group of AD user accounts. 1) Read more [...]