A Nifty Trick to Backing-up AD Integrated DNS Zones Purpose                 A few years ago I had a customer that lost their DNS databases that were stored in AD. They asked me if there was any way to recover this data without performing an authoritative restore. That got me thinking of what we could use native to DNS that could provide backups and restores that would be affected by Active Directory as little as pos... [More]

Network Bandwidth vs. Network Latency Purpose                 It has always been curious to me that we accept a statement of bandwidth only from our ISPs, when latency is just as important. I may be able to send you an elephants weight (~8 tons) in gold over the next year, but wouldn't you rather have a mouse's weight every second until then (~700 tons)? Network latency is big deal. Too much network latency and we c... [More]

Network Ports and Sockets Purpose                 To begin to understand how a computer communicates on the modern network you need to understand network ports and sockets in TCP/IP. This is probably the most basic concept to networking. In Windows, and in other platforms, there are some tools that will also help us in reviewing our ports and connections on any given machine. I have no plan to rewrite was has alread... [More]

If we are able to export data from public folders we should be able to export data from mailboxes. What I have done is taken the same code used in the Public Folder to HTML blog but, just replaced the public folder commands with mailbox commands. Note: To be able to use the sortable feature you will need to download the JS script form this website, http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/. I encourage changing the HTML output to reflect the needs of your environment. When you change th... [More]

Large tokens can wreak havoc on an organization.  For an Exchange environment, it can be devastating. Some common problems that will occur include: Event 2020, “The server was unable to allocate from the system paged pool because the pool is empty” in the application event log Event 333, “An I/O operation initiated by the Registry failed unrecoverably. The Registry could not read in or write out or flush one of the files that contain the system's image of the Registry... [More]