Nicolas Blank

Learn about Exchange 2013 at Information Worker

by Nicolas Blank 25 July 2012 Exchange

Tomorrow night I will be showing off the community preview edition of Exchange 2013. We’ll expand on new Architectures, features and of course a live demo of Exchange 2013. While Information Worker sessions are community driven, some of the new areas we hope to cover include: Architectural changes Co-existence Migration Options The new admin interface  [...]

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Interview With Mike Pfeiffer–author of Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook

by Nicolas Blank 3 July 2012 Exchange

A little while ago we reviewed Mike Pfeiffer’s book “Exchange 2010 PowerShell Cookbook”. It’s our pleasure to present an interview with Mike, about himself, his book and his views on PowerShell 2.0 and 3.0. If you have any more questions for Mike, please use the comments section under the article and we’ll make sure to [...]

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Lepide Exchange Manager Review

by Nicolas Blank 26 June 2012 Exchange

Lepide Exchange Manager (LEM) was a pleasant surprise when it crossed my desk. LEM allows for the recovery of mail from a variety of sources into EML’s, MSG’s PST’s or online mailboxes. While this kind of product certainly isn’t new, the simplicity and speed of LEM coupled with a common sense approach to its user [...]

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ITPROAFRICA July Security Event

by Nicolas Blank 20 June 2012 Anouncements

ITPROAFRICA is pleased to invite you to another free event in Cape Town on the 5’th of July. This time our focus will be on Security and its relevance in the modern Data Centre or IT focused Business. Registration is required for catering and parking purposes. Please register using the following link: itprosecurity.eventbrite.com This day [...]

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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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