Vishal Vasu

Exchange 2010 Mailbox Report Script

Posted by Vishal Vasu in Exchange Server

One of the tasks that every Exchange Server administrator faces as part of their daily or weekly maintenance is getting the mailbox size report of the Exchange Server. The PowerShell commands do help in getting the relevant data, but doing this rudementary task manually everytime is painstaking. Here is a small exchange 2010 mailbox report script which can used to generate the mailbox statistics report and then automatically email the same as an attachment. To automate this further, one can create a Scheduled Task in Task Manager so that it…read more

Nov.15

Backup Exchange Server 2007 on Windows 2008 using NTBackup

Posted by Vishal Vasu in Exchange Server, Microsoft Windows Server

All those System Administrators running their Exchange Server 2007 on a Windows 2003 (64-bit) server have the previlage to get access to the traditional NTBackup utility to backup their exchange stores. But those who are running their Exchange Server 2007 on Windows 2008 (64-bit) must have faced the dilema of which tool to use to backup their mail stores. This is because Windows Server Backup in Windows Server 2008 no longer supports Exchange-aware backups or restores. In order to back up and restore Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1) on…read more

Jun.25

Remove index.php from URL for WordPress

Posted by Vishal Vasu in Websites & Web Marketing

Many WordPress uses prefer to host their web sites on a Linux server so that they can get rid of the index.php that get’s in to the URL by using mod_rewrite module on Linux. This is not supported on Windows Server’s IIS. The main idea is to make the URL more simple and SEO friendly. Normally, when you setup PermaLinks in IIS, we get something like this: http://www.yourwordpresssite.com/index.php/2009/08/02/your-blog-post/ This means that each link to the post carries index.php in the URL which is not good. Outlined below are steps that…read more

Jun.10