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• Aug 03, 2010

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  Data Protection Manager 2010 manual backup of the protection group to tape

  There is no way to trigger backup of a protection group manually in DPM Management Console. Use the following script from within DPM Management Shell to trigger tape backup of a protection group. You will need to provide DPM server name, protection group name and backup option (‘LongTerm’ for tape backup). param([string] $dpmname, [string] $pgname,...
  
  

• Jul 31, 2010

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  How to retrieve list of mailboxes sorted by size in Exchange 2010 using PowerShell

  You have probably noticed that you can’t view and sort mailboxes by their size in Exchange 2010 using Exchange Management Console. To do this you need to use Exchange Management Shell. Run the following command to retrieve list of mailboxes sorted by size on a specific server: Get-MailboxStatistics -Server <Server Name> | Sort-Object -Property TotalItemSize...
  
  

• Jul 27, 2010

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  Error: “You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network.”

  If you want to create a CNAME alias for the machine and when trying to connect to a machine using an alias you get an error: "You were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network." This is because the server is listening on it’s own name only by default. To resolve this...
  
  

• Jul 26, 2010

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  How to get servers’ DNS settings exported to CSV in Powershell

  This script will let you query servers on your domain network for DNS server settings and return them in the CSV file. Script takes text file containing server names: server1 server2 server3 and returns CSV file with Hostname, DNS Servers, IP Addresses settings Get-Content .\servers.txt | ` ForEach-Object { Get-WMIObject Win32_NetworkAdapterConfiguration -Computername $_ | `...