Well its sort of offical. The new iPhone 5 will be released overseas on 15th October 2011.

That is if we are to believe a interview with Stephanie Richards (CEO of major phone carrier France Telecom).

So when will it be available in Australia?
Traditionally Australia receive stock anywhere up to a month after an overseas launch. When the iPhone 4 was launched we had to wait a week.

The iPhone 5 will look similar to the iPhone 4 with only a slightly larger screen due to a finer bezel and 512MB of RAM.

Lets see if the reports are true.

Migrating IIS6 Web Site to IIS7

These instructions are for migrating a web site running under IIS6 to a Server running IIS7
Before any of the following instructions are followed please make sure you fully backup your IIS 7 server.

On the Source IIS6 Server

Download and install Microsoft IIS Web Deploy v2.0
http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy

Install this onto the server. This server will create a folder IIS7.0 Extensions Folder with a Web Deploy Command Line application

Run this application making sure you run it as a local Administrator or Domain Administrator account.

From the command prompt check out all of the dependencies of the web site you are trying to export by typing the following command.

msdeploy -verb:getDependencies -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/12345

Where 12345 is the Identifier shown in IIS6 for the web site you want to migrate.

Read the output on the screen and take note of what dependencies are being used as these will also need to be used in the new IIS7 environment.

Now you need to backup the site including the application pool
To do this type the following

msdeploy -verb:sync  -source:metakey=lm/w3svc/12345 -dest:package=c:\IISite.zip -enablelink:AppPoolExtension > WebDeployPackage.log

Hopefully you get no errors.

On the Destination IIS7 Server

First you need to copy the file you saved on the C:\ drive of the IIS6 server to the IIS7 server.

Next you should backup the current IIS7 web site by running the following command.

%windir%\system32\inetsrv\appcmd add backup “PreWebDeploy”

Next you need to download and install Microsoft IIS Web Deploy v2.0
http://www.iis.net/download/WebDeploy

Install this onto the server. This server will create a folder IIS7.0 Extensions Folder with a Web Deploy Command Line application

Run this application making sure you run it as a local Administrator or Domain Administrator account.

Next you are ready to check if the IIS6 backup will import without any errors

From the Deploy Command Line run the following

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=c:\support\IISSite.zip -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/12345 -whatif > WebDeploySync.log

Using the –whatiff switch will report any errors.

If no errors are reported just run the following script

msdeploy -verb:sync -source:package=c:\support\IISSite.zip -dest:metakey=lm/w3svc/12345 > WebDeploySync.log

And if all went well then you should be up and running.

In SQL Server 2008, Microsoft by default has changed the default Edit all Rows option to edit just the Top 200 records.

There is a reason for this, mainly to stop someone inadvertantly trying to edit all records from a very large table. But if you’re like me and need to edit all rows then here is how to change it.

Open SQL Server Management Studio
Select Tool, Options
Select SQL Server Objects
Change the Value for Edit Top <n> Rows command to 0 (see below)

Thats it..

Steve

Have you ever had the problem where you try and add an email alias in AD but get the error “This e-mail address already exists in this organization” ID no: c10312e7?
There is a simple way to search for which account has this email address. Just right click the top level of your domain and click find. Then in the name field just type in smtp:user@domain.com where user@domain.com is the email address you are trying to find. click find now and there you go! no more csvde scripts

Spam is an inevitable part of running an Email server in this day and age.

While the spam is annoying enough to have to deal with, you will also have the same amount of boucebacks, failed recipient messages and of course the non-delivery reports.

Getting rid of the messages can be done at the server level before they are sent onto the client (that is if the information store is still stopped) but you can eliminate this completely if you want.

To do this go to into the Exchange Manager, and expand the Global Settings tree.

In the tree there should be an option for Internet Message Formats, click on this.

To the right there should be a Default or a customised format, depending on how your domain is setup.

Double click or right click > Properties to bring up the Properties screen. At the top you will have a few tabs, one which says Advanced. Click on this.

You should now be seeing a screen that looks like the image below.

Within this tab you can now specify what notifications will be emailed back to the clients, as well as a some other handy options.

When a new distribution group is created in exchange 2007 and you attempt to send emails to it, you will find that all authenticated internal users will be able to send to the address but external users will receive a bounce back message claiming the user is unknown.

In order to allow external users to send emails to the address, forcing of authentication needs to be turned off.

To change this setting you need to go into the Exchange Management Console.

On the left hand side navigation pane go to “Recipient Configuration” and then open the “Distribution Group” subdirectory. Navigate to the group you need to modify, right click it and go to properties.

Click on the tab at the top that says “Mail Flow Settings”, you will see an item there called “Message Delivery Restrictions“, click it so that it is highlighted and then click on the “Properties” button in the top left.

From here you can control who can send emails to the group, and also reject emails from people to the group. The only option you need to change here is the make sure that “Require that all senders are authenticated” is Unchecked. Once that is remove, click OK and send a test email to verify.

Exchange 2007 is an intersting beast and what was a simple task in Exchange 2003 seems to be a lot more difficult in the new version.

We have a client where the owner requires full access to all users mailboxes.
If this is somthing you need to do follow these steps. 

On the Exchange 2007 server go into the Exchange Management Console application

Type the following

Get-Mailboxdatabase | Add-AdPermission -User “Username” -AccessRights GenericAll

Where Username is the user you want to give full access. Please remove the quotes.

Restart the Exchange Information Store service and presto.

Hope this helps.

We have just finished installing a Windows 2008 SBS server at a clients site and came across a problem with a couple of laptop users that use offline folders.

At this client site we have a number of laptop users that synchronise their Home user directory so that these files are available when out of the office.

The problem we came across is that the share we made offline on the laptop before the server was installed has now been moved to the new server.  We originally though that turning the offline folders option off, rebooting and then setting it up would work but everytime we did this is remembered the old server and share name.

So how do you fix this problem?

We finally came across a utility in the the Windows 2003 resource Kit.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9d467a69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

The tool is called csccmd.exe.

Command:
csccmd.exe /moveshare:\\oldservername\oldsharename \\newservername\newsharename

This command should be run from the laptop.
Please note that this command does not move the data from the old server to the new server. It just updates offline files database with the new server name.

Hope this helps other people.

At 5am (Sydney time) apple started its event to launch the iPad.

What is it?

The iPad is simply a giant iPhone/iPod touch. It can do everything they can do only on a bigger screen. In the presentation they stated that it will be able to run existing apps from the app store in a small centred screen or you can expand to full screen although full screen would just stretch the app. The screen is 9.7inch with a 1024×768 resolution.

Connectivity

The iPad is wi-fi enabled by default however you can pay extra and get a built-in 3g aerial.

Battery life

Apple claims 10 hours of active use or 30 days in standby.

Apps

All apps currently in the app store will run on the iPad

There are also exclusively written apps designed specifically for the iPad. The new Developers kit also includes support for the iPad so you can probably expect a lot of iPad variants to your existing favourite apps. The pre-installed apps that are written specifically for the device are listed below

Safari
Mail
Photos
Video
YouTube
iPod
iTunes
App Store
iBooks
Maps
Notes
Calendar
Contacts
Home Screen
Spotlight Search

Pricing

Apple has not released pricing for release in Australia so all we have to go off is the US Price which is

16 GB – $499 (with 3G – $629)
32 GB – $599 (with 3G – $729)
64 GB – $699 (with 3G – $829)

Availability

In America the iPad will be available at the end of March and the 3G models will be a month after that. For us Australians there has been no word as of yet but they did mention that summer in America they will have some international options for their 3G connectivity so you would presume that means international launch. This is around June in Aus! 

Here’s a video of HP telling us how they thought of the slate all by themselves… The HP Slate