Powershell gives Exchange admins a lot of nice little tricks to use. Exchange 2010 has a new feature in tool tips. You can use Powershell, to run a basic for loop, looping through a quick Get-Mailbox. Based on the output of the Get-Mailbox, you can get a list of all valid mailboxes for an organization. You can then execute a command, allowing you to run any mailbox command against every mailbox of an organization. In the following example, we’ll use the Set-MailBox to make a basic mail tip for all users: foreach ($mailbox in (Get-Mailbox)) { Set-MailBox -Identity $mailbox -MailTip “Please send only legitimate emails” }
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MacTech Bootcamps Coming To A City Near You!
I’ve been watching the MacTech Conference and then Boot Camps for some time. After hearing of the resounding success of the Conference last summer I was then stoked to hear that the January Boot Camp went extremely well. A MacTech Boot Camp is a regional, single-track seminar designed specifically for consultants and techs. MacTech Conference is a multi-day conference for IT professionals with a focus on enterprise and development whereas the Boot Camps are for consultants and techs focused on home users and small to medium sized businesses. Both are going really well. https://krypted.com/ is now a media sponsor of MacTech Boot Camps! This means I get discounts to offer my…
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Finding iOS Device PINs
Each time you sync an iOS based device, a backup is made (unless you disable the option). These are stored in ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup. Here you will find a number of folders, each beginning with the UDID of the iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch that has been backed up. The contents of these folders can be used to restore a device in the event that the device falls outside your control. Within the folders are a bunch of files with alphanumeric names that look garbled, even though some can be viewed using a standard text or property list editor (while others are binary). But there are also a bunch of other…
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iTunes High Contrast Mode
I like to use my laptop on the beach. Not that I get out much these days, but one of the things I often do is to flip my machine into inverted, or high contrast, mode. Recently I’ve been looking for ways to not switch the whole machine over. This can be as simple as throwing the background for Word to blue, which makes me feel all kinda’ AmiPro-like, or most recently, I’m using High Contrast Mode with iTunes. High Contrast Mode switches the background for the sidebar and the library to black. This isn’t for everyone, but I like it at times (just make sure to kill the Ping…
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The MacBook Air and the Mobile Lab
When does minimalism go too far? Maybe as a response to how much I travel, or maybe just because I’ve started loosing stuff in my old age, I have been reducing and getting more organized for years. I have endeavored to get rid of all that isn’t necessary and been welcomed by the fact that less truly is more. I buy less clothes, own less crap, I travel with fewer keys, I am less of a gear-head (outside of my lab of course), I ditched racks of systems in my old lab for 2 stacks of Mac Minis and I oddly end up throwing out less as well. And that…
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April Fools Redux
Google’s annual April Fools is now a reality. No, there isn’t a wire coming in my house from my toilet to replace my Internet connection (although Google did recently announce it was running a wire to a certain toilet in Kansas – DOH). Instead, some crafty folks from USC’s Institute for Creative Technologies built gMail gestures using Microsoft Kinect. The irony…
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Google's Annual April Fools