Author Archives: Jeff Turner

About Jeff Turner

Technical director of Nano Tera Network Solutions.

Replace the icon lables “Computer” and “This PC” with something more useful.

This script will read the computers name and domain settings and rename the icon in the form computername.domain.local This makes it much easier to be certain which desktop you are working on when using multiple remote RDP , mstsc connections. … Continue reading

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Powershell to list the rights for each mailbox (who can read others mailboxes)

Just need to put your server name and if you want to not include some of the access rights (ie bes server and backup software etc… just add it to the where clause). Get-Mailbox -server myserver | Get-MailboxPermission | where … Continue reading

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Powershell to export list of email forwards on an Exchange Server

this will list all the forwards that are active for mailboxes. $fwds = get-mailbox | Where-Object { $_.ForwardingAddress -ne $null } | sort Name | select Name, ForwardingAddress # now get the primary smtp adress of each forward address foreach … Continue reading

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Powershell to export list of Exchange Server Mailbox email addresses

this powershell snippet will export all the SMTP email addresses used on a mail server, useful to document and check on them. ; Get-Mailbox -ResultSize Unlimited |Select-Object DisplayName,ServerName,PrimarySmtpAddress, @{Name=“EmailAddresses”;Expression={$_.EmailAddresses |Where-Object {$_.PrefixString -ceq “smtp”} | ForEach-Object {$_.SmtpAddress}}} ; Or to get … Continue reading

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Listing files and folders into a document.

Its always been annoying that it isnt trivial to get a list of documents. This powershell code let you create an excel compatible CSV file listing all the files and folders, one with the newest (by creation data) files first. … Continue reading

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WSS3 sharepoint upgrade to Sharepoint Foundation 2013

WSS3 sharepoint upgrade to Sharepoint Foundation 2013 SBS 2003 and 2007 use the WSS3 version of sharepoint. To upgrade from that to a current version can be a bit tricky. It involves upgrading to the 2010 version of sharepoint foundation … Continue reading

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ATO Tax calculations in Excel

Some possibly useful excel functions and macros. save this function in a macro enables excel documnet (xlsm) and then you can use the formula =taxpayable(a1) and it will calculate the tax payable for that gross income. ATO Tax scales Australian … Continue reading

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Changes to twenty ten theme

Based on twenty ten template, add “pretty” pictures with standard width/height for banner headings. added logo.jpg to images subfolder within template Added code to header.php to show logo on top of page next to description (logo has white space on … Continue reading

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WordPress web site, now online.

Moved from development environment in test domain to real domain. Tuning content and appearance. This site based on a child theme of twenty ten theme. Planning to move content from the public subsite (dokuwiki) to here if it is relevant. … Continue reading

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