5 best practices for successful system administration
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For successful system administration, you need more than just the required technical skills. Below is a list of five slightly non-technical abilities that should be developed in order to become…
How To Migrate On Premises Exchange Mailbox To Office 365
Creating hybrid environment gives the facility to work with both On-premise Exchange as well as Exchange Online. Once the hybrid environment is created, moving mailbox from on premise to online…
5 reasons to use NIC Teaming with Windows Server 2012
NIC Teaming, also known in the Microsoft world as Load Balancing/Failover (LBFO), allows you to install additional physical Ethernet network adapters (NICs) into your server and “team” or combine them…
Configuring NIC Teaming in Windows Server 2012 R2
NIC Teaming was a feature we obtained through independent hardware vendors such as Broadcom. A separate piece of software was installed and you went through a GUI to team your…
How to Create or Convert Shared Mailboxes in Office 365
As the name suggests, a shared mailbox is one that is used by multiple users to receive or send email. You’ve probably seen shared mailboxes used for situations such as…
Configuring a Mailbox to Allow Only POP3 Access
Sometimes an organization has a requirement to only allow certain users to access their mailboxes using the POP3 protocol. Faced with this requirement the Exchange administrator needs to work out…
Using PowerShell to Get Mailbox Database Size and Available New Mailbox Space
As your Exchange Server mailbox databases grow you’re eventually going to be interested in finding out two things – how large the database file is, and how much available new…
Testing Connectivity and DNS Changes with a Hosts File
Many Exchange Server migration scenarios involve making DNS changes that can impact a very large number of customers at once if they go badly. Similarly, we often need to isolate…
Managing Windows Server 2008 Print Services
Managing Remote Print Servers In the previous chapter it was stated that the Print Management tool provides a central location from which the print services for an entire network may…
Setting Up a Windows Server 2008 Print Server
Installing the Print Server The first step in setting up a Windows Server 2008 print server is to install the Print Server role. This is achieved by launching the Server…