Importing and exporting individual user inboxes is a fairly simple process and remains largely the same across multiple releases (nothing has changed in regards to how you do this so far between Exchange 2010 SP1 and Exchange 2016 RTM). Just simply run the following commands in the Exchange Management Shell.
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You may be aware that all of your data is stored in something called a ‘Blob Storage Account’. Each Azure subscription can have many blob storage accounts but not the other way around. You cannot share blob storage accounts between Azure subscriptions. That means there’s no easy way to move VMs around between Azure subscriptions
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Forcing IIS to redirect all requests from HTTP to HTTPS is very easy. All you need to do is add the following code to your web.config file (and if it doesn’t exist already, copy the code below in its entirety and open a new file in notepad, paste it in, ‘Save As’ and put web.config in
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In the past creating a bootable Windows USB installer was extremely easy, all you needed to do was download the ‘Windows 7 USB/DVD Backup Tool’ from Microsoft’s website, select the ISO, and then select the USB stick. Easy stuff. Sadly it’s not so easy with newer computers that have UEFI instead of BIOS. UEFI USB
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All you need to do to install IIS in Server 2012 and 2012 R2 super quickly is run the following command in an elevated PowerShell prompt. Install-WindowsFeature Web-Server -IncludeManagementTools -IncludeAllSubFeature
tl;dr Download and install the 32 bit version of Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 4 from this link. Refresh page and all should be fixed. If you’ve installed PHP 5.5 or 5.6 via the WebPlatform Installer on Windows Server 2012 R2 you may have noticed it refuses to work. Every PHP page
Update 2016.08.28: blog post replaced. please click here for new post. Sadly Apple no longer include restore discs with their machines, that doesn’t mean you can’t reinstall though. It’s fairly simple to create a bootable USB installer for Yosemite. All you need is a USB memory stick that’s 8GB or larger. Make sure you back it up
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By default OS X saves screenshots to your desktop, this can be very annoying but thankfully it’s very easy to change with just a quick command in Terminal. Put the following command into Terminal (replacing ‘/Users/jon/Pictures/Screenshots/’ with the location you want screenshots to be saved to):
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There are a couple of reasons you might want to change the RDP port on your Windows Server (e.g; if you’re sitting behind a NAT firewall and have multiple servers you need to administer remotely, or if you want to add some security (even if security by obscurity is stupid). Either way, it’s very simple
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I’m the kind of person that likes to have all of his documents easily available on all of his computers. For this I choose to use Microsoft OneDrive. In Windows it’s very easy to change the location of my Documents, Photos, and Music folder to folders within the OneDrive directory so whenever a change is made
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