Month: November 2012

How can I clean up my File Server Public folder directory on an interval basis using PowerShell?   If your company uses a Public folder and your policy is to clean up every X days you can use PowerShell to do the work for you. Let’s create a folder on the C: root called Operations and save the command line below in a file called PF-clean.ps1. Make sure to change the path for your public folder. Remove-Item -Path F:\Public\* -Recurse Now it comes the easy part, just create new Windows Task and make sure to fill out these following fields when … Continue reading Quick Hint: Cleaning up File server Public folder using Powershell

Good morning folks! In Today’s post we will summarize all our posts around Office Web Apps Server that were created in the last few days. Office Web Apps Server will help organizations to centralize all the load related to office web viewers in a single location and it provides fault tolerance, resilience and Load Balance support to all collaborative Microsoft products (UC), such as: Exchange Server 2013, Lync 2013, and SharePoint 2013. In the following list we will find step-by-step how to deploy, manage certificates, configure the server and finally integrate with Exchange Server 2013. Office Web Apps Server – … Continue reading Office Web Apps Server: How to deploy, manage and integrate with Exchange Server 2013

Buenos tardes hermanos (Yeah, we are all sad that Brazil won the game last night playing at the Bombonera!) In Today’s post we going over the last step of the Office Web Apps Server which is the integration with Exchange Server 2013 (we will work on the integration with other products down the road as well). Integrating with Exchange Server 2013 It’s a piece of cake and we configure the integration using the same URL that we used yesterday to test the Office Web Apps Server. The following cmdlet can be used (where <server-name>  should be the same name assigned … Continue reading Office Web Apps Server: Integrating with Exchange Server 2013

Hola Hermanos! strike is over and the life goes on in the heart of Argentina’s capital) In Today’s post we are going over the steps to configure the Office Web Apps Server and the configuration has no GUI, everything is done at PowerShell level however the configuration is really simple, just a few cmdlets and you will be all set to configure the integration on your favorite products: Exchange 2013, Lync 2013 and SharePoint 2013. It is possible to configure HTTP however for the sake of security let’s configure the certificates that we installed yesterday. Our first step is to … Continue reading Office Web Apps Server – Configuring the server

Sometimes you need to add the legacy .NET Framework on Windows Server 2012 and if you follow the regular steps as shown in the figure below. You will find the following error where the Windows Server 2012 media will be required. In order to install any Features that require the media, you can use either the GUI or the command line. Using the GUI you can click on Specify Alternate Source Path and then use the path (if you are using the DVD on the D: drive, you can use D:\sources\sxs) If you prefer PowerShell, not a problem, just add … Continue reading Quick Hint: How can I install .NET Framework 3.5 on Windows Server 2012?

Buenos días hermanos (Live from Buenos Aires Today even with the Transit Public strike over here ) In Today’s post we are going to continue our journey to configure Office Web Apps Server towards the integration with Lync and Exchange Server 2013. Last post we installed the server and its language packs, you can check it out here: Office Web Apps Server – Installing on Windows Server 2012 http://msmvps.com/blogs/andersonpatricio/archive/2012/11/13/office-web-apps-server-installing-on-windows-server-2012.aspx A few key points about the digital certificates and Office Web Apps, as follows: If using an internal CA download the certificate in base-64 format If using an internal CA use … Continue reading Office Web Apps Server – Configuring Certificates

Hola che hermanos! In Today’s post we will go over the process to monitor the Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool using SCOM. This post is a small part of one of my upcoming articles about the transition process from on-premises Exchanges to FOPE that will be published in MSExchange.org. Before performing the monitoring wizard below, you should have at least: Agent installed on the FOPE Server A Group created for the FOPE Server (in this case FOPE-Group) A Management Pack to store all FOPE monitoring and groups (in this case FOPE Management Pack) Now that we have all that in place, … Continue reading Monitoring FOPE (Microsoft Directory Synchronization Tool) using SCOM

Hola hermanos, Scott Schnoll (@schnoll) has just tweeted about new updates for Exchange Server 2007 and 2010. Here are the updates: Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 (KB2719800) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35740 Update Rollup 7-v3 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 (KB2778158) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35739 Update Rollup 8-v3 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 (KB2778154) http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35741 Cheers, Anderson Patricio http://www.andersonpatricio.ca http://www.andersonpatricio.org (Portuguese) Twitter: @apatricio Technorati Tags: Exchange Server 2007,Exchange Server 2010,Rollup Updates,RU5

Hola che Hermanos (live from Argentina this week) This week we are going to go over the new kid on the block which is the Office Web Apps on Windows Server 2012. Using this server on-premises we can have browser-based view of Office documents, such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and One Note and it works with Lync 2013, Exchange 2013 and SharePoint 2013. By default we can read documents and if you have license you can also edit documents using the same component. Isn’t that cool? First things first, let’s download the software and also the language packs. Here are … Continue reading Office Web Apps Server – Installing on Windows Server 2012