Tag: pro tip

  • Pro Tip: Force HTTPS in IIS7

    I recently ran into a situation the other day where a vendor requested that traffic from visitors be required to use HTTPS. Since most users don’t make a habit of knowing when (or that they have to) type https: in the browser to establish a secure connection, this seemed like a logical enough request. My…

  • Tech Tip: Importing VMs for ESXi

    One of the things I love about VMware and virtual machines is the ability to move them between servers with almost no effort. Last week I was working importing some virtual machines to a new host that had been shipped to us, and after uploading the VMs to the datastore and adding the machines to…

  • Tech Tip: Exporting Mailboxes in Exchange 2010 SP1

    The whole mailbox export thing for Exchange has come a long way since Exchange 2003. 2003 had ExMerge, and Exchange 2007 through 2010 RTM had the Export-Mailbox command in the Exchange Management Shell. I liked the whole management shell thing well enough, but having to install the management tools and Outlook to do mailbox exports…