Author Archives: mail2spi2014

Disk performance change in Exchange 2010

Disk performance change in Exchange 2010 (IOPS) Yes there is big architecture change in Exchange 2010, Exchange server 2010 able to provide 70% more performance compare to Exchange 2007, I will explain this in detail in this article. In a simple way each Exchange mailbox server has to communicate to storage disk in order to… Read More »

Windows 2008 DNS features

Compare to windows 2003, Windows 2008 have more features and improvement, I will discuss the improvement related to DNS in this article, Microsoft done the improvement that really required for the IT environment, Windows 2008 DNS features are listed below Background zone loading: If you are an administrator for an large environment you would have… Read More »

Get IP Info

Active Directory tool to find site name, subnet and other information for given IP addresses If you are troubleshooting the system issues, like logon issue and DFS issue you have to check the system IP address and from which site this IP address belong to and from which subnet this IP belongs to, if that… Read More »

Internet Browser is missing in Blackberry / Not able use Enterprise activation in Blackberry

Internet Browser is missing in Blackberry or Enterprise activation missing in BlackberryUnable to find the Internet Browser in Blackberry and Unable to find the Enterprise actication in Blackberry to resolve this issue folloe the below steps, explains how to get the Internet Browser icon to show up in Blackberry and also download any missing services required… Read More »

Unable to edit Local group policy

Cannot edit or modify Local group policy “Log on as a service” and “Allow log on locally” policies on Windows 2003 server Unable to edit Local security policy If you try to edit the local group policy settings or change the local group policy settings, some policy setting won’t allow to edit and it’s grayed… Read More »

Category: GPO

windows port number

windows port numbers If you are a windows administrator then you have to know the port numbers for the windows services like port number for DNS, DHCP, and LDAP and so on…. I have received several queries regarding the port numbers for different services, port numbers for ADS (Active Directory Services), Exchanges and Windows, here… Read More »

Check trusted site and activeX approval site list

Check the trusted site and activeX approval site list in IE7 After adding the trusted site and activex approval list through GPO, we have to check from client system that the newly added sites are updated or not, normally it take some time to replicate if you have more complicated AD environment. We can use… Read More »