Thursday, February 11, 2010

How to Renew or Replace Self-Signed Certificate in Exchange Server 2007

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Example, how i renewed our SSL in Exchnage 2007 environment when the Certificate expired

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>New-ExchangeCertificate -domainname "scatest01.com.au", "SCATEST01" -Services "SMTP

Confirm
Overwrite existing default SMTP certificate,
'E73B30FE933569AD8411D39ED9B70C27921C5DDA' (expires 11/02/2010 2:12:25 PM),
with certificate 'C674BA0B5A3478B8055E172CD87796CBC16EF411' (expires 12/02/2011
9:27:19 AM)?
[Y] Yes [A] Yes to All [N] No [L] No to All [S] Suspend [?] Help
(default is "Y"):y

Thumbprint Services Subject
---------- -------- -------
C674BA0B5A3478B8055E172CD87796CBC16EF411 ..... CN=scatest01.com.au

[PS] C:\Windows\System32>Enable-ExchangeCertificate C674BA0B5A3478B8055E172CD877
96CBC16EF411 -services SMTP

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

Free Virtualization E-Learning Collection Available

Collection 6333: Exploring Microsoft Virtualization Technologies

Overview
This collection of two 2-hour online clinics and an 1-hour online clinic provides IT Professionals experienced in Windows 2000 Server or Windows Server 2003 with the knowledge and skills to implement and manage virtualization technologies.

Topics covered in the clinic within the collection include:
Introduction to Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008
Overview of Microsoft Application Virtualization
Overview of Terminal Services in Windows Server 2008
Overview of Hyper-V

Student Prerequisites:
Experience in planning, implementing, and supporting Windows Server–based networks, operating systems and platform infrastructure. This may include experience in Windows 2000 Server, Windows Server 2003, and Windows Server 2008.
Knowledge of server virtualization and Hyper-V.

How to Slipstream Updates for Office 2007

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MS Office 2007 Customisation Install

To customise MS Office 2007 for deployment, copy all the content of MS Office to location where you can access it locally or on the network, in this example we will copy the content to a testpc's, local C drive under a folder called depleysw. Then follow the below steps:
1) cmd to the location where you saved the MS Office contents

2) Type setup.exe /admin

This Command Guide You For Create one Silent Install For MS Office 2007 , the guide generate a .MSP file, which can be used setup.exe /adminfile filename.msp.

If you require more help then you need to Type setup.exe /help for more info.

3) Create a Install batch file and save it to same location as MSP and the Setup.exe files.

eg:- \\testpc\c$\deploysw\office2007\setup.exe /adminfile install.msp

or
if you like to create a silent cd, then copy all files from cd for temp dir, create a .bat file, eg called "setup.bat" and add in the bat file "setup.exe /adminfile filename.msp", Edit autorun.ini to modify;

[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.EXE
FOR
[autorun]
OPEN=SETUP.bat

Finally, burn all files onto a midia or create an .ISO file.

Using Group Policy to deploy software to select computers

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How to Apply Patches (.msp) to Group Policy Deployed Software (.msi)

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