by Rocky Beaven | Jun 8, 2014 | Office
When you try and open a Word mail merge document that is linked to a data source you may receive a warning dialogue that states: “Opening this will run the following SQL command”. This dialogue can appear behind the application you are working on and it...
by Rocky Beaven | Feb 28, 2013 | Exchange Server, Microsoft 365, PowerShell
You may at some point want to get a list of all the mailboxes defined on your mail server, along with other details (such as additional email addresses) for each. From Exchange 2007 SP1 onwards there is an export list option in the Exchange Management Console (EMC)....
by Rocky Beaven | Jan 28, 2013 | Miscellaneous, Server 201x, Windows 10/11, Windows 7/8
If you ever need to make a PC (or server) listen for inbound RDP connections on multiple TCP ports: 1) Run REGEDIT on your host machine. 2) Export the following key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetControlTerminal ServerWinStationsRDP-Tcp 3) Edit the .REG...
by Rocky Beaven | Jan 21, 2013 | Miscellaneous
If you ever find the need to reboot a remote computer (when you can’t RDP in) and you need to supply credentials, e.g. for a machine on a different domain, you can’t use the normal: shutdown /r /m \COMPUTER To get around this, download the psshutdown tool...
by Rocky Beaven | Oct 28, 2012 | Miscellaneous, Patching/Security, SBS 200x
In the olden days you could move the WSUS content to a different partition using the SBS console, but you may also want to move the database itself (which can become quite large to say the least), and the instructions are still relevant today: Move WSUS Content and...