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Articles
Q. How can I view my Windows Server
2008 and Windows Vista accounts' last-logon
information?
by John
Savill
3.10.08
A. In Server 2008 domain mode, you access Group
Policy settings to enable the last-user logon and any unsuccessful
attempts. You can find the setting by opening Computer Configuration,
selecting Policies, and clicking Administrative Templates. Next select
Windows Components, then Windows Logon Options. Finally, enable the
"Display information about previous logons during user logon." You must
apply this setting to both domain controllers (DCs) and the client
machines you want to display last-logon information.
The first time a user logs on, he or she will see a dialog box stating
that it’s the first time the user has interactively logged on to the
account. On subsequent logons more information is displayed.
The actual logon information is stored with the user object. The values
are:
Q. Can an edge server act as a
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Outlook Web Access (OWA) and Exchange
ActiveSync (EAS) gateway?
by John
Savill
3.11.08
A. No. An Edge Transport server only acts as a
SMTP traffic interface. You can use Microsoft Internet Security and
Acceleration (ISA) Server 2006 to publish any network-required Exchange
OWA and EAS traffic. Take a look at Publishing
Exchange Server 2007 with ISA Server 2006 for more ISA Server
2006 and Exchange 2007 information.
Q. How can I view information about my
system monitors?
by John
Savill
3.12.08
A. The Win32_DesktopMonitor class, which is
accessible through Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI), gives
information about system monitors. The class is documented at Win32_Desktop
Class.
The following WMI script (showmonitors.vbs) lists all the connected
monitors in my network.
strComputer = "."
Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")
Dim WshShell
Set objWMIService = GetObject("winmgmts:" &
"{impersonationLevel=impersonate}!\\" & strComputer & "\root\cimv2")
Set colMonitors = objWMIService.ExecQuery ("select * from
win32_DesktopMonitor where Availability = 3")
For Each objMonitor in colMonitors
wscript.echo "Caption " & objMonitor.Caption
wscript.echo "Resolution " & objMonitor.ScreenWidth & " x " &
objMonitor.ScreenHeight
wscript.echo "Availability " & objMonitor.Availability
Next
Note that the availability value specifies the monitor state. In my
example, monitor 3 is in operation (the other values are documented in
the previously referenced MSDN article).
To run the script, enter the command
D:\Temp>cscript showmonitors.vbs
The following is the result:
Microsoft (R) Windows Script Host Version 5.7
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
Caption Dell 2407WFP (Digital)
Resolution 1920 x 1200
Availability 3
Q. What is Microsoft Exchange Server
2007 SP1 Update Rollup 1?
by John
Savill
3.13.08
A. Microsoft finally released the first Exchange
Server 2007 SP1 Rollup, which contains a number of post-SP1 updates and
fixes. The Update's Web page is at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=945684, which also contains the 32-bit and 64-bit download links. Apply
this update only to Exchange 2007 environments in which you’ve applied
SP1.
Q. Where can I get Microsoft Exchange
Server 2007 processor and memory recommendations?
by John
Savill
3.14.08
A. Microsoft System Center Capacity Planner 2007
is a great pre-deployment capacity planning and post-deployment change
analysis tool that gives hardware recommendations and utilization
metrics for specified environments (e.g. designated physical locations
and numbers and types of users).
If you want more general Exchange 2007 memory- and processor-sizing
information, Exchange
Server 2007 Processor and Memory Recommendations is a great
resource.
The article gives advice on the minimum and maximum number of cores for
each role. For example, it recommends that a Mailbox server have a
maximum of eight cores for the best price and performance ratio. It
generally recommends one core for every 1000 moderate users, 2GB of
memory for processing, and 3.5MB of RAM for each mailbox. So, for
example, a server with 4000 mailboxes should have 16GB of memory. The
article also recommends the maximum number of supported storage groups
(SGs) for designated amounts of memory. Using the earlier 16GB of RAM,
it recommends a maximum of 32 SGs.
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