The ramblings of a computer geek
Pre version 8.3 to statically NAT an internal host to an external IP address you would use the following: This then means…… inside = the source interface for the NAT connection (assuming going from the inside to the outside) outside = the translated interface for the NAT connection 212.219.63.195 = External IP address to which … Read more
Okay a basic example with a Cisco ASA for the NAT rules. Lets say there is PC1 on the inside network that you want to have internet access. The IP address 192.168.1.100 can’t just connect to the Internet using that IP address as its not routable, so instead we need to translate it. In this … Read more
I needed to have an automated way to bulk import a load of PST files into Exchange 2013. In my case all the files were named as follows: samAccountName@domain.co.uk so for example: fred.bloggs@thingy.co.uk.pst You can run this command from an Exchange PowerShell console, bear in mind that you’ll need to change your domain name on … Read more
If you like me like a more simple password for your local administrator password on your servers in a test lab or production 🙂 then you can change it using the local security policy. Problem is on Hyper-V Server 2012 R2, you don’t have the MMC snap-ins to do it, so you need to use … Read more
On our Microsoft SharePoint 2013 home page, we had a horizontal scrollbar appear. What seemed to be happening was within the master CSS file was that the “s4-workspace” was of the “ms-core-overlay” that affects the whole size of the page was using this: As you can see the “overflow” was set to auto, this sets … Read more
So you have the box at the top, this confuses our users, so we need to remove it. To do this you can just use a simple script on the front page. 1. Edit the front page and add the “Script Editor” web part. 2. Give it a suitable name, and then enter the following … Read more
You want to change the size of the search box web part, this is fairly straight forward when you know how. 1. Firstly get the name/ID of the search box. Open your SharePoint front page, right click in the search box and select “inspect element”, then in the Developer box you should see the search … Read more
To create a CSR and include not only a CN (Common Name) but also a SAN(s) too, you can use the following process. 1. Firstly create a text file called request.inf and fill it with the following: 2. Now run this command to create a CSR: You can check it has the right info here: … Read more
If you’re like us you still have old legacy applications that use POP3 for various things. On Exchange 2013 the way POP3 works has changed slightly. Now you access a POP3 mailbox via the CAS servers that proxy you to the mailbox on the Mailbox role server(s). Our application only supports plain text authentication, but … Read more
There’s some basic tasks which are good to automate, to save you some time, you can configure them to run as a scheduled task. First step is to create a user account to run the scripts, this account should have access to change Exchange and change Active Directory, lets call the account: exchangeserviceuser. To run … Read more