Change the default RDP port 3389 via registry editor and PowerShell. Continue reading
Category Archives: Windows
Send Email From Windows PowerShell
Sometimes need to test SMTP configuration from Windows machines with no extra stuff installed. Continue reading
Find and Remove All Non-Empty Directories with Windows Command Prompt
It so happened that one of my test applications started to generate loads (>50) of tmpxyz folders with some temp data inside and failed to remove them afterwards. Continue reading
Increase Rules Size Limit for Exchange 2010 Mailboxes (PowerShell)
The rules size limit for mailboxes in Exchange Server 2007/2010 has a default size of 64 KB per mailbox.
The total rules size limit is customisable and can be increased up to a maximum of 256 KB per mailbox. Continue reading
OpenVPN Server and Client Setup on Windows
Setting up an OpenVPN server on a Windows Server 2008 hosted on AWS. Also tested on Windows Server 2012 R2. Continue reading
Remotely Wipe a Mobile Phone Connected to Exchange 2010
There are occasions, in fact quite rare, where users lose organisation-owned mobile phones containing sensitive personal and/or confidential business information.
In such case all data on a phone have to be immediately wiped to ensure than a mailbox isn’t accessed by anyone other than the owner. Continue reading
Fix Boot MBR in Windows 7
I use a dual boot laptop with Linux OS installed on SSD (Grub2 bootloader on a separate /boot partition) and Windows OS on HDD. All was fine up until recently, when my SSD crashed and stopped working. Completely. Continue reading
Shrink MSSQL Logs and Rebuild Database Table Indexes
Some quite useful MSSQL notes here. Continue reading
Configure Passive FTP on IIS6
Passive mode is somehing I always think about when having to deal with NAT’ed FTP servers. This article applies to IIS6 hosted on a Windows Server 2008 SP2. Continue reading