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Some cool links – June 29th Edition

I have been way to busy lately to put anything on the blog, but I wanted to share the links below. Hopefully I will start blogging by the end of the week.

The EXPTA {blog}: The New Exchange 2007 SP3 Password Reset Tool – Very cool feature of Exchange 2007 SP3. You are now able to force people to change their passwords on login to OWA. This will replace some work arounds that I have implemented. Note this isn’t available in Exchange 2010.

iOS 4: Exchange Mail, Contacts, or Calendars may not sync after update – What? My iPhone won’t sync Exchange and is killing my Exchange server? My iPhone isn’t evil! Or is it?

Link: Parse NMAP XML Output

I came across this while browsing around today. The post was released in June 2009, but still a cool way to use PowerShell.

http://blogs.sans.org/windows-security/2009/06/11/powershell-script-to-parse-nmap-xml-output/

I am a frequent user of NMAP and of course PowerShell and this seems like it will be really useful.

January 2010 Technet Magazine is out

The January 2010 Technet Magazine is out. You can read it here.

The disappointing part is how much content there is. Not a lot. Frustrating, but still has good content.

- Matt

Link Clearance – 1/8/2010

Wonder what I am reading this weekend? Here is a short list of the links I will be reading this weekend. There are a ton more, but these are on the top of the to read pile.

• Windows Management Infrastructure Blog : wmic vs WMI Powershell cmdlets
• Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog : Hey, Scripting Guy! How Do I Add Help Information for Windows PowerShell Parameters?
• Group Policy Team Blog : Tales from the Community: Enforced vs. Block Inheritance
• Securosis Blog | Getting Your Mindset Straight for 2010
• Windows PowerShell Blog : How objects are sent to and from remote sessions
• Clint Huffman's Windows Troubleshooting in the Field Blog : W3C IIS Log Analysis using Log Parser
• Hey, Scripting Guy! Blog : Hey, Scripting Guy! Quick-Hits Friday: The Scripting Guys Respond to a Bunch of Questions (1/8/09)
• Ask the Directory Services Team : The importance of following ALL the authoritative restore steps
• Network Monitor : Annotated Traces for Windows System Behavior

This list may get updated throughout the day depending on how busy I get.

-Matt

Couple of links

While waiting for my wife to get home on this Christmas Eve, I decided to go through some of the links I have collected while working on other projects. I figured I would share some of them with you. Enjoy!

• Cygwin 1.7 is out with Windows 7 and Windows Server 2009 R2 Support!
• NTFS: An Introduction from the SANS Forensics Blog written by Dave Hull
• NTFS: Attributes Part One is also from the SANS Forensics Blog and written by Dave Hull
• Hey, Scripting Guy! Can Windows PowerShell Functions Accept More Than One Input?

Those are the big ones I got through today. I should post more this weekend.

-Matt

December 2009 Technet Magazine is out

If you haven’t noticed, you haven’t received your December Technet Magazine. That is because it has gone digital only. It sucks, but we have to live with it.

It has some good information regarding Exchange 2010, Windows 7 and a PowerShell column about Regular Expressions.

Check it out here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx

It looks as though it won’t be offered in HTML Help format either. Oh well.

Enjoy?

-Matt