All posts by Jim Guckin

Q&A Monday: Enable and Disable Proxy via Scripts

Question: I use my laptop both inside and outside of my company’s network.  It is a company issued laptop and when I am in the office, I am suppose to use their proxy server, when I am out on the road, I’m suppose to use the local connection, which does not have a proxy.  Currently…

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Average Mailbox Size Using Exchange PowerShell

PowerShell is now becoming more and more prevalent in Microsoft’s Exchange and Server software.     This scripting language is becoming a must know for Administrators and knowing this scripting can help get all kinds of useful information.  When I was an administrator for an Exchange system, it helped me to monitor the mailbox(s) and databases for their…

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Q&A Monday: Outlook 2003 problems with Exchange 2010

Question: My company has recently upgraded our Exchange server to 2010, but I still have some users using Outlook 2003.  There are plans in the next 6 months to update these remaining users, but some of them are experiencing a problem.  The users have a bunch of shared calendars and are getting a connection issue,…

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Alternatives to Outlook

    I’ve been asked about this more times than I can remember, so I figured I’d just do an article about it….What are some alternatives to Microsoft Outlook.  To fully disclose I still cling on to my Outlook for my windows machine, but I do use other software for my linux machines.  So I’ve…

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