If you are working with BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) you can get a problem, when users cannot send emails from their Blackberry. And, I guess you already familiar with a “Send As Permission” problem :).

So, I created a script, that allows set all neccesasry right to the BESADMIN account. When you run script, you should provide an OU, where the particular user exist and user’s email address.

NOTE: In my script I used linex.exe and dsacls.exe. Just use Google to download those very POWERFUL tools

I guess it's impossible to find IT person who doesn't know very old and at the same time very powerful program, NTBACKUP. For me, it a best program to backup and restore Windows systems, like NT, 2000, XP and 2003 :). If you have an old backups that was made by NTBACKUP and you want to restore it on Windows Vista or Windows 2008 you can use recently released Windows NT Backup - Restore Utility. If you have a reason ( I do) to use the old NTBACKUP program to do backup on Windows 2008 it's also possible, but I'll talk about how to do that in one of my next articles :).

Scott Schnoll’s announced a new Microsoft plugin that will do Exchange VSS Backups on Windows Server 2008. Windows Server 2008’s new Windows Server Backup utility, the replacement for NTBackup, doesn’t do Exchange backups out of the box.

Recently, on one Windows 2008 I've installed a Terminal Server Role and did a TS Web Apps. Really nice feature, you can get access to application through web interface, exactly how it's done on Citrix, but by using Windows 2008 you not requested to buy a Citrix ;). Yes, TS Web Apps from Windows 2008 is a nice, but to get access to this application, on a client side should be installed RDP 6.1 client. This particular version of RDP cames with SP3 for Windows XP or with SP1 for Windows Vista. I have no idea why Microsoft doesn't provide RDP 6.1 as separate package.
In my case I couldn't install XP SP3 or Vista SP1 on every machine in Network, so I've found a workaround.

iSCSI has become a very popular way of having shared storage among several physical or virtual computers. The benefits of shared storage are even greater when combined with the abilities of VMWare such as VMotion, High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler.

Below are the basic (and I do emphasize basic) to configuring iSCSI storage with VMWare 3.0. Like any shared storage infrastructure there are a number of possible methods and structures that could change the way that iSCSI is installed and used.

Step 1 - Add in extra Service Console and iSCSI VMKernal
The service console and VMKernal need to be on the same physical NIC on the ESX server. The IP’s for these services need to be on the same subnet as the iSCSI storage device. The pictures below outline the end-result if your iSCSI VLAN were to be 192.168.4.0/24. Note that the service console that you is shown below is the second and therefore additional service console. The original stays unchanged.

BGP is the protocol that binds the Internet together. It is what sends one packet across the globe in a few milliseconds and allows you to send email, . Typically, you will see Cisco routers that will handle this sort of heavy lifting and that is the IOS that we will review briefly.

ASN – Starting point
In order to have a BGP connection you will need to have an ASN(Autonomous System Number). You can get one of these through ARIN (American Registry for Internet Numbers). BGP uses ASN's like VLAN id's or a higher level view of subnetting. There are private ASN's if you are planning on using BGP for internal purposes only. The private BPG range is AS64512 through to AS65535.

IOS – Configuration info
Here is the basic output of two connections to two different autonomous systems from one Cisco router.