Kobi Shmueli's blog

Exchange 2010 SP1

Kobi_S — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 22:27:48 +0000

Hi all,

I’ve waited for Exchange 2010 SP1 for a long time and I must say I like:

- The ability to create mailbox archives on a different server/database (the ability to host the archives online is interesting too).

- The ability to reset corrupted virtual directories (yes, I’m a lazy person).

- Scripting Agent (I know I could do some of it with a daily script running on new mailboxes but still).

- New-MailboxRepairRequest.

- Distribution group naming policies.

- More GUI options for managing DAGs.

- The ability to install the required Windows roles/features.

- The ability to set Public Folder permission from the Exchange Management Console (welcome back!).

- Import/export .pst files without outlook.

- Soft-deleted mailboxes.

- SMS Sync looks a nice feature, I hope other mobile clients will support it too.

- Calendar publishing looks like a nice feature too.

P.S. in case it wasn’t obvious - I didn’t intend to list all the changes, just the ones I like! for the full list, check out http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff459257.aspx

-Kobi.

Hybrid Fighter

Kobi_S — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 22:04:22 +0000

The oatmeal’s funeral

Kobi_S — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 20:20:37 +0000

(check out http://theoatmeal.com/blog/funeral)

TMNT

Kobi_S — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:43:36 +0000

Now, here is a picture…

What it’s like to own an Apple Product

Kobi_S — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 21:43:53 +0000

This is a good one:

blogger –> wordpress

Kobi_S — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 20:15:33 +0000

As you can see I finally migrated my blog to wordpress, some time ago blogger has decided to stop their ftp publishing service so I had three options:
1) Migrate to a blogspot address
2) Use a custom sub-domain (i.e. blog.kobi.name)
3) Migrate to wordpress

I like my data and I wanted to keep it on *my* servers hence I chose the 3rd option.

The migration took about 5 minutes. I had to run three queries to fix posts/comments that started with a “>” (for some reason) but that’s about it:
update wp_posts set post_title=right(post_title,length(post_title)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_posts set post_content=right(post_content,length(post_content)-1) where left(post_content,1)=’>’;
update wp_comments set comment_content=right(comment_content,length(comment_content)-1) where left(comment_content,1)=’>’;

If anyone else wants to move their blog from blogger to wordpress check out:
http://underscorebleach.net/jotsheet/2006/05/move-blogger-to-wordpress
http://ferrogate.com/2009/04/the-new-ferrogate-i-moved-from-blogger-to-wordpress.html

-Kobi.

PDFmyURL

Kobi_S — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:34:00 +0000

I found a nice website that lets you save webpages as PDFs:
http://pdfmyurl.com/

-Kobi.

I shaved my beard!

Kobi_S — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:58:00 +0000

Yeah, it happened again. I wiped both my beard and my moustache. What do you know, I almost look like a human being now.

Notes:
1) I said *almost*.
2) I said *look like*.

-Kobi.

Interesting way to debug slow logons

Kobi_S — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:42:00 +0000

Mark Russinovich (Sysinternals) wrote an interesting post of how to use PsExec and Process Monitor to debug slow logons:

http://blogs.technet.com/markrussinovich/archive/2010/01/13/3305263.aspx

-Kobi.

A notice to all the idiots out there…

Kobi_S — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:50:00 +0000

You only see what I want you to see.

Flooding me with my last name doesn’t make you look cool, it makes you look stupid.

-Kobi.