Blogging from OneNote

If you don't use OneNote, than well, I feel bad for you.

Learned recently how to let my case notes and quick screencaps QUICKLY get on a blog.

Write up, screen cap, do whatever you want on your blog entry from Onenote, the right click anywhere and choose Blog this.

This will launch into MS Word's HTML editor (essentially)

If you click on Manage Accounts, you see this.

There are a lot of blogging hosts available:

The trickiest part is image uploads. I chose to use my own FTP and HTTP service.

The Upload URL is obscured, because unfortunately, you cannot put the password in a secured field when you use ftp://user:password@host.domain.com/folder/folder/ format.

Once you have your blog ready to rock…

I am using blogger.com for this, and it works AWESOME.

Hyper-V - Code 12 on Virtual Machine Bus and Integration Tools not working

Stumbled upon this and found the fix here:

http://blogs.technet.com/jhoward/archive/2008/02/29/vmbus-fails-to-load-device-cannot-find-enough-free-resources-code-12-on-a-windows-server-2008-x86-virtual-machine-under-hyper-v.aspx

(2/29? Yea, so this is OLD news, but a nice fix either way!)

Was getting this error:

Tada!

Performing an Exchange 2007 mailbox restore using Backup Exec 12.5

1. Create the recovery storage group using the Exchange Management Console's toolbox. Confirm you will have enough disk space to do the restore to the drives it chooses!
   
2. If you run the "restore wizard" in Backup Exec 12.5, it doesn't prompt for redirection options. However, Exchange 2007 by default will find and use a RSG for you. If there is not an RSG, the job will fail.
   
3. I used the non wizard in the screenshots below to create a Restore job, selecting the Exchange Storage group and Database to be restored, and choose the RSG redirection as well as unchecking the "commit after restore" (the restore will work either way, I just like manually mounting stores) Remember, you do NOT need to restore all databases, only the one you want data from!
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

4. Mount your RSG database
   
   

   
   

   
   

5. Launch the Exchange Recovery Toolbox again, and it's now time to "Merge or copy contents"
   
   

   
   

6. Here is where I found a very ODD issue. As you can see above, the DMNotify mailbox is in the High limit store, and this is the one I restored from. However, When I go to merge data, the Staff and High limit DB's are flip flopped. So even though Backup Exec 12.5 restored the data, when I go to mount the databases, the high limit is 2gb (empty) and the staff is 17GB (the size of my data restored)
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

7. However, I was still able to merge the mailbox I wanted out by choosing the Staff DB
   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

8. Mail data was all successfully restored!
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

   
   

Exchange 2007 OWA redirect configuration using URL Rewrite

This is a quick write up on how to configure your Windows 2008 x64 IIS server on how to rewrite URL's so users can easily get to their HTTPS based OWA without entering the entire URL including https://...

• First, download and install URL rewrite for x64 here http://www.iis.net/extensions/URLRewrite, This will require a reboot.
  
• Second, by default "force SSL is ENABLED on an Exchange server. Open the SSL settings on your default site and disable the HTTPS requirement, as this rule will force it.
  
• Go into IIS manager and open URL rewrite:
  

  
  

• Create a new Blank rule
  

  
  

• You will be recreating these two rules:
  

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• Force HTTPS Rule and Conditions:
  

  
  

• Redirect Root Rule Action:
  

  
  

• Now, http://machine/ and http://machine/owa and https://machine/ all redirect to https://machine/owa making the end user a happy camper who can't goof up the URL!