Nicolas Blank

How to migrate just about anything

by Nicolas Blank 9 February 2012 Anouncements

I worked with the nice folks over at Mimecast to build a series of Webinars, which include: Webinar 1 – Migration planning: where to start Webinar 2 – How to design your Exchange migration process Webinar 3 – Migration gotchas: real world examples Webinar 4 – Measuring migration success I really enjoyed building these webinars, [...]

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The Great phone debate?

by Nicolas Blank 9 February 2012 Commentary

Windows Phone 8 Preview’s are out, and they are tempting! Tempting to what you may ask? The temptation is to wait. Nokia is expected to release the Lumia 900 as the crown jewel of  the Lumia range  (possibly sooner than expected) running Windows Phone 7.5. Windows Phone 8, however, sharing a platform with Windows 8 [...]

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Exchange Server 2010 and PowerShell Remoting

by Nicolas Blank 27 September 2011 Exchange

Today we have another guest blog post, this time by Bhargav Shukla. Bhargav is passionate about many things, including Exchange and PowerShell, so I’ll allow him to introduce himself and afterwards we’ll get on with the post.   Bhargav Shukla is a Sr. Premier Field Engineer – Unified Communications with primary focus on Exchange Server [...]

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Microsoft Scripting Guy–Ed Wilson Guest Blog–PowerShell and WMI Discovery

by Nicolas Blank 22 September 2011 PowerShell

Today we have a very special treat! A guest blog from the Microsoft Scripting Guy himself, Ed Wilson. Ed Wilson is the Microsoft Scripting Guy and a well-known scripting expert. He writes the daily Hey Scripting Guy! blog,. He has also spoken at TechEd and at the Microsoft internal TechReady conferences. He is a Microsoft-certified [...]

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Using PowerShell to find objects via SidHistory

by Nicolas Blank 21 September 2011 PowerShell

I’m using the free Quest CMDLets (www.quest.com) for this post as they do most of the heavy lifting I require under the hood. You can download these for free at Quest.com and get free support from some of the best PowerShell MVP’s as well as the CMDlet’s developers at www.PowerGui.org SIDHistory is used extensively during [...]

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PowerShell 3 previews available for download

by Nicolas Blank 21 September 2011 Anouncements

It’s a week of downloading goodness. First Windows 8 desktop downloads became available, now we have the PowerShell 3 community preview available. You may ask, why should you bother? PowerShell 1 fundamentally transformed the admin experience in terms of ease of scripting, debugging and discovery. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then checkout [...]

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Using PowerShell to Bulk Create Exchange users with unique passwords

by Nicolas Blank 20 September 2011 Exchange

There’s a number of articles which detail how to create an Exchange user from a CSV file using Exchange Management Shell, however most of them harvest a password at runtime by prompting the user to type in credentials. The password is then set for all users. However, what if your users all need to have [...]

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Windows 8 preview–including download links

by Nicolas Blank 15 September 2011 News

The future of Windows was shown this week at the BUILD conference as we spoke about earlier this week. Stepping away from the marketing a bit, I’d like to call out two perspectives Windows 8 presented by Steven Bink, reviews the major new features and platforms Windows 8 will run on. Since we’ve recently reviewed [...]

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The Future of Windows

by Nicolas Blank 13 September 2011 Anouncements

The BUILD conference starts today,13 September 2011 and lasts until the 16’th of September 2011. .If you’re interested to know what’s going to be in the next versions of windows – Desktop, Server, Mobile, Slate, Embedded, Car, etc, then you’ll want to keep your eye’s peeled for announcements. Build traditionally is the place where most [...]

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Exchange 2010 PowerShell cookbook–Mike Pfeiffer

by Nicolas Blank 8 September 2011 Book Reviews

“Quick Answers to common problems” – I have to agree. A number of PowerShell books have graced my shelves, however very few of them allow an Exchange focused professional to learn in an incremental way, focused purely on Exchange. Mike accomplishes this by introducing a concept and then building on it, gradually cranking up the [...]

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