Some Notes on the Machines

Rather helpful:

http://titlerequired.com/2011/12/07/quick-fix-sbs-2008-sites-self-signed-certificate-expired/

Do these in Exchange command shell, replacing all site data as indicated (US is the short geographical form):

$Data = New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -SubjectName "c=US, o=Organization Name, cn=fqdn.organization.com" -DomainName organization.com, secondarydomain.com -PrivateKeyExportable $true
Set-Content -path "C:\Docs\MyCertRequest.req" -Value $Data

Then get the thumbprint for the certificate request created above:

get-exchangecertificate

and paste it into this (replacing the thumbprint via copy/paste):

get-exchangecertificate -thumbprint asdfdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz | new-exchangecertificate

and then, most likely (again replacing the thumbprint via copy/paste):

enable-exchangecertificate -thumbprint asdfdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz -Services POP,IMAP,SMTP,IIS

First copy the cert from the server to a file. Log into the server as administrator, and in CMD:

certutil -ca.cert ca_name.cer

Then copy ca_name.cer onto the desktop of the client PC, double-click on it, click “Install Certificate…” on the General tab, click “Place all certificates in the following store”, click “Browse…”, click “Trusted Root Certification Authorities, and click OK. Click Next and Finish.

Try this:

http://www.sslshopper.com/ssl-checker.html

Try this:

http://www.vaita.com/ODIR.asp

it removes duplicate emails in Outlook, and does a very good job of it too.

Here is a VBscript which, if edited for your Gmail account and environment, will work well on anything XP, Server 2003, or above. It does not require any additional installations, CDO is an object built in to Windows:

EmailSubject = "Sending Email by CDO"
EmailBody = "This is the body of a message sent via" & vbCRLF & _
		"a CDO.Message object using SMTP authentication."

Const EmailFrom = "self@gmail.com"
Const EmailFromName = "My Very Own Name"
Const EmailTo = "someone@destination.com"
Const SMTPServer = "smtp.gmail.com"
Const SMTPLogon = "self@gmail.com"
Const SMTPPassword = "gMaIlPaSsWoRd"
Const SMTPSSL = True
Const SMTPPort = 465

Const cdoSendUsingPickup = 1 	'Send message using local SMTP service pickup directory.
Const cdoSendUsingPort = 2 	'Send the message using SMTP over TCP/IP networking.

Const cdoAnonymous = 0 	' No authentication
Const cdoBasic = 1 	' BASIC clear text authentication
Const cdoNTLM = 2 	' NTLM, Microsoft proprietary authentication

' First, create the message

Set objMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")
objMessage.Subject = EmailSubject
objMessage.From = """" & EmailFromName & """ <" & EmailFrom & ">"
objMessage.To = EmailTo
objMessage.TextBody = EmailBody

' Second, configure the server

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusing") = 2

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserver") = SMTPServer

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpauthenticate") = cdoBasic

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendusername") = SMTPLogon

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/sendpassword") = SMTPPassword

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpserverport") = SMTPPort

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpusessl") = SMTPSSL

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Item _
("http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/smtpconnectiontimeout") = 60

objMessage.Configuration.Fields.Update

' Now send the message!

objMessage.Send

If you work with RAID a lot, you have seen this. You need to know which drives are involved with a particular RAID volume, even though the RAID-dedicated indicators (software/hardware mix usually) aren’t set up, working, existing, and/or reliably visible. Well, this way works in Windows if you have drive lights on every drive. This is a CMD script:

REM This script 'runs' a drive or RAID volume,
REM write then read then write then read...,
REM two megabytes at a time, 2000 times.

REM You'll also need a 'dd.exe' placed in
REM %SYSTEMDRIVE%\WINDOWS.  I use
REM the excellent one available here:  
REM http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

REM Drop this script as a .CMD file on the root 
REM of a drive/volume for which you want to verify 
REM drives, then run it.  The drive lights will all
REM flicker fairly regularly, unless you have some 
REM super-duper buffering/caching in place.

SETLOCAL ENABLEEXTENSIONS

FOR /L %%I IN (1,1,2000) DO (
	dd if=/dev/random of=test.dd bs=2048000 count=1
	dd if=test.dd of=NUL
)

del test.dd

The idea is, while it’s running, whatever drives are being read/written, will have lights on. You’ll want to Ctrl-Break after you learn what you need, although this ‘dd’ appears to be very gentle with the machines. Please note that it does need a ‘dd.exe’; I have tested it only with the particular ‘dd.exe’ from this excellent source, I place it in %SYSTEMDRIVE%\WINDOWS.

Lots of good instruction-sets here:

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/category/linux/

If you do most of EasyLife first, the “dependencies” are handled for you.

Several certificate issues involving Outlook 2007/2010 and SBS 2008/2011 are covered here:

http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/01/05/troubleshooting-certificate-mismatch-warnings-in-outlook-2007-clients-on-small-business-server-2008.aspx

DigiCert has a number of tools for us:

https://www.digicert.com/util/

The one on that page can fix a certificate chain, and there are others linked at the bottom.