Posted by admin on April 15, 2010 under Help | 
After installing BES USer Admin Tool (BESUserAdminService and BESUSerAdminClient) from Blackberry Resource Kit 5.0, you should run this command to generate BESUserAdminClient password.
Run the following command:
BESUserAdminClient -set_client_auth “-username admin -password adminpasswd -ad_auth -domain admindomain” -set_p clientpasswd
Then run the following command:
BESUserAdminClient -p clientpasswd
Where ‘admin’ is the BESadmin login created at the time of BES installation with password ‘adminPwd’.
You can see if a password has been previously cofiugred by running the following command.
BESUserAdminClient -p clientPwd -status
Posted by admin on March 24, 2010 under Tutorials |
Delete disconnected mailbox in Exchange 2007
When you have deleted an mail-enabled Active Directory account, the mailbox will be moved to Disconnected Mailbox in your Exchange Management Console.
To delete (purge) the disconnect mailboxes from a database, you run the following command from your Exchange Management Shell:
Get-MailboxStatistics -database "server\database" | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null} | foreach {Remove-mailbox -database $_.database -storemailboxidentity $_.mailboxguid}
This command first retrieves all disconnected mailboxes from your server\database, and then runs the Remove-mailbox command for every mailbox. To verify that only the disconnected mailboxes will be removed, you run the following command first:
Get-MailboxStatistics -database "server\database" | where {$_.disconnectdate -ne $null}
This will list all current disconnected mailboxes.
Posted by admin on March 19, 2010 under News |
Microsoft and Citrix have announced a programme to jointly develop desktop virtualisation technology in a move they claim will lead to products that will simplify the way IT departments manage their desktop PCs.
The move is part of a package of measures unveiled by Microsoft which aim to kick-start businesses’ use of virtualisation technology to host applications and data in datacentres and the cloud, rather than on desktop PCs.
“We are trying to enable the mainstream adoption of desktop virtualisation,” says Dai Vu, director of virtualisation solutions marketing at Microsoft. “With companies upgrading from XP to Windows 7, it is going to give people the opportunity to think about desktop virtualisation in its widest sense.”
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Posted by admin on March 11, 2010 under Tutorials |
Open source virtualization software that is used to partition workstations and servers into separate virtual machines, each containing its own copy of an OS. Pronounced “zen,” and developed at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., Xen is noted for its fast response and low overhead. Xen is a small, low-level “hypervisor,” which is the first control software loaded when the computer starts up. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 9, 2010 under News |
Cloud computing is all the rage. “It’s become the phrase du jour,” says Gartner senior analyst Ben Pring, echoing many of his peers. The problem is that (as with Web 2.0) everyone seems to have a different definition.
As a metaphor for the Internet, “the cloud” is a familiar cliché, but when combined with “computing,” the meaning gets bigger and fuzzier. Some analysts and vendors define cloud computing narrowly as an updated version of utility computing: basically virtual servers available over the Internet. Others go very broad, arguing anything you consume outside the firewall is “in the cloud,” including conventional outsourcing. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 8, 2010 under Help, Tutorials |
Port-Profile capability in Nexus 1000V is the primary mechanism by which network policy is defined and applied to virtual machines. A port-profile can be used to define configuration options as well as security and service level characteristics. Virtual-Service-Domain (VSD), on the other hand, is a feature within the Nexus 1000V that allows for grouping of one or more port-profiles into one logical domain. The VSD capability allows for services that work in conjunction with Nexus 1000V, such as a virtual firewall entity like vShield, to be integrated into the virtual environment and accessed by the individual domains. This seamless service integration in conjunction with the Nexus 1000V can be used to provide more granular security policies within a virtual environment. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on March 6, 2010 under News |
Autodiscover and Multitenant Hosting
In a corporate environment, Microsoft Office Outlook 2007 clients locate an Autodiscover service running on a Client Access Server by directly querying the Active Directory directory service and locating relevant Service Connection Points (SCPs). This is shown in the following diagram:
Figure: Using Outlook 2007 to locate an Autodiscover service
For Internet users, Outlook 2007 will attempt to locate and connect to an Autodiscover service based on the e-mail domain of the user. For example, for the user johnc@alpineskihouse.com, Outlook 2007 will automatically try to connect to the following URLs in turn: Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on under Help, Tutorials |
Multi-tenant is not virtualisation
I would take issue with the suggestion that multi-tenant applications means “multiple instances of the same package that can be executed on the same machine”; that’s virtualisation, and doesn’t require any particular magic at all. However it is grossly inefficient from an operational viewpoint – it means if I have 1000 customers for my cloud-based Exchange service (e.g.) I have to separately manage 1000 instances of Exchange. Read more of this article »
Posted by admin on under Help |
You don’t have the time, money or manpower to run your own messaging environment, it may be time to consider hosted Exchange
I’ve decided to join Gold’s Gym. With the high upfront costs of fitness equipment, I figured this was a cheaper and better solution than trying to go it alone. Gold’s experienced certified personal trainers are helping me design and implement a fitness plan. With their support, I’m reaching my goal. But if the service ever goes south, I can always leave, because I have the pay-as-you-go plan. Read more of this article »
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We just had another of our regular cloud research meetings at Forrester. In these meetings, we cut across our research organization to examine cloud computing from every angle.
Compared with even just a year ago, it’s amazing how important and pervasive cloud computing analysis (as opposed to cloud computing guesswork) has become in our research calendar.
You can see the existing cloud/SaaS research here and our planned research here. As the meeting host, I mostly listen, probe, and take notes, but ocassionally I get to jump in with a thought. Read more of this article »
Tags: cloud computing guesswork, Cloud-hosted, Cloud-hosted collaboration, collaboration, email, instant messaging, social computing, team sites, virtual machine, Web conferencing, Xenigy
