My wife’s Dell laptop needed a new hard drive. The original drive was only 20 gigs– it needed something a little bigger. (When your iPhone has almost as much space as your laptop, you know it’s a little old!) Space considerations aside, the drive was moving a little slowly and seemed like it was generating a little bit of heat.
So, time for a new drive. But I was dreading having to reinstall the operating system and of the programs, settings, etc.
No worries. Some cheap utility software rescued me….
Continue reading ‘Replacing a Dell Laptop Hard Drive and Cloning the Drive’
As a part of my day job I manage the Domain Controller and Exchange server for our 80+ person office. We’re spread out across two physical locations. A little while back a couple of users asked to be set up with the Calendar sharing function within Exchange / Outlook. (FYI: We’re running Exchange 2003, and all of my clients are running Outlook 2003.) I accommodated their requests by going to their respective locations and setting up the shares.
As tends to happen, other users started asking for the same functionality once word got out within the office that the feature was useful. It became apparent that I was going to need a better solution than just dealing with each request individually.
I began scouring the Microsoft sites, searching for a way to remotely manage Calendar sharing for multiple users within Exchange. After quite a lot of searching I learned that there is no tool provided by Microsoft for centralized management of Calendar sharing within Exchange/Outlook.
(How this was missed by MS engineers, I’ll never know. This seems like such a basic task.)
However, there is a program out there –SetPerm.exe– that will allow you to manage calendar sharing in Exchange for multiple users. This tool can be run from any client PC on the domain, and only requires that the user account executing the code have some specific permissions. The author of the program is Kevin Snook. The website dedicated to the tool is apparently now gone, so I’m hosting the file here. setpetm.zip () I’ve also created a step-by-step guide on how to use the program.
(I’m writing this post so that hopefully it’ll get indexed by Google and help out people that are searching for the same solution that I was…)
Continue reading ‘Calendar Sharing in Exchange / Outlook for Multiple Users’
(… or any other IMAP compatible mail client)
My wife wanted to change her Gmail account to reflect the fact that we’re now hitched. So I started doing some research online and discovered that there are a couple of methods being used: POP3 and IMAP. However, only one includes support for preserving your labels. (If you aren’t interested in using the label system, why are you using Gmail anyway?)
So, I’ll cover using the IMAP method. (What is IMAP?) It’s fairly straightforward, but can take a significant amount of time if you have thousands of messages. (My experience took a couple of days to move about 10,000 messages.)
All in all, it’s a pretty simple process… Continue reading ‘How To: Migrate One Gmail Account to a New Gmail Account using Thunderbird’
