Previewing ‘Windows 8’

The first preview of Microsoft's new Operating System, internaly codenamed "Windows 8" by Julie Larson-Green, Corporate Vice President, Windows Experience.

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Syslog Message Collection for OMS from sources that do not support the agent

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On the previous article of the OMS series, we've installed and configured the OMS agent on a linux machine and started collecting syslog messages and performance statistics.

Today, we are going to use that machine to collect syslog messages from other machines, devices or applications that are not supported by the OMS agent. This is a two step process, first we are going to enable the remote syslog collection on the linux machine and then we are going to update the configuration of the agent to support high volume of syslog traffic. Let's dive in!

The syslog server is going to be rsyslog since it came with Ubuntu server and the configuration file is stored at /etc/rsyslog.conf.

To enable the remote collection, the below lines have to be uncommented in the configuration file:

module(load="imudp")
input(type="imudp" port="514")
and
module(load="imtcp")
input(type="imtcp" port="514")

Since we are going to be collecting messa…
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How to Configure Message Forwarding on a Mailbox Level

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The Set-Mailbox cmdlet has two parameters to configure forwarding for a mailbox: ForwardingAddress and ForwardingSmtpAddress. Those two parameters serve the same puspose but in two different ways. There is also a third parameter called DeliverToMailboxAndForward that when set will leave a copy of the message on the mailbox.

The "ForwardingAddress" accepts RecipientIdParameter input which means that you have to use the identity of an existing object on your organization such as another mailbox or a mail contact.

The "ForwardingSmtpAddress" accepts input in a proxy address format such as plain old email addresses. Although this is pretty straight forward, there's a catch you need to be aware of. This will only work if the remote domain of the recipient is configured to allow message forwarding. Let me elaborate.

There's a thing on Exchange, called Remote Domains. Those are used in order to define settings for the communication between your Exchange server and…
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Building a PowerShell cmdlet using C# - Part 1: Basic Code and Requirements

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As PowerShell evolved, it gave administrators more are more options when creating functions. The latest addition in PowerShell 5 was classes which along with the ability to use .NET classes allows us to build functions for even the most complicated tasks.

The use of classes and .NET objects however is much easier in C# and the fact that the code is faster and strongly typed makes C# a better choice when building complicated functions. In this article, we are going to create a cmdlet using Visual Studio. Let's get started!

Fire up Visual Studio and create a Class Library project:


When the project is created, it will contain a class file that is going to hold the code for our cmdlet.


Before starting to write the code, we have to add a package that will provide all the necessary tools to create the cmdlet. Right click the solution in the Solution Explorer and select "Manage NuGet Packages for Solution".


When the package manager tab has opened, click "Browse" and s…
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