EdgeTransport.exe.config Cmdlet

August 11th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

In the previous post on this subject I mentioned that I’ve been working on a little project regarding the EdgeTransport.exe.config file. With the advent of PowerShell I decided to look into writing my own Cmdlets and the EdgeTransport file seemed like a good place to start.
To get started you’ll need to download the Cmdlet from [...]

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Researching Exchange 2007’s EdgeTransport.exe.config

August 2nd, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Whilst there are a lot of features in Exchange 2007 that can be configured and tweaked using the GUI and Powershell I have on several occasions (bare in mind I work in Managed hosting so these occasions are not all for the same installation) needed to ‘play’ with the settings in EdgeTransport.exe.config file [which should [...]

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Last H.O.P.E and Tackling the Debian OpenSSL Issue

July 30th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Well I’m back from my trip to New York and I’ve brought back a couple of things.
With the most tracks HOPE has ever had I was truly spoilt for choice but I spent most of my time [when I wasn't showing our US friends how drinking should be done] visiting talks that had potential datacenter [...]

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The Last H.O.P.E

July 7th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

The Last Hope

Windows Server 2008 With Exchange 2007 - In Production

May 29th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Considering how bleeding edge the majority of my projects are I’m a little behind the curve on this one but I’ve finally managed to move all my Windows Servers across to Windows Server 2008. This includes the Domain Controllers, Web Servers and most critically the Exchange servers.
This post is going to be cut into the [...]

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Fedora 9 - Released

May 13th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Fedora 9 is released.

Get the torrents here:http://fedoraproject.org/get-fedora

Interest seems to have peaked as I’m seeding at 100Mb/s on both my US and UK servers.

Benefits of Virtualisation For Training

February 24th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

Working in a Data Center brings with it various challenges that you wouldn’t normally find in most other jobs; we come across demanding solutions, ingenious ‘hacks‘, impressive software and outright weird errors.
Once we’ve crossed a particular hurdle then we need to go about disseminating this new found information to the other SysAdmins.
So far [...]

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Airsoft Map - Version 2 Goes Live

February 19th, 2008 by Gareth Llewellyn

After a lot of work the newest version of the Community Driven Airsoft Map has gone live.
Not that any Airsofters read this blog but; can I say a big thank you to all the people that have been adding to the site, updating information and emailing me with issues and suggestions.
The site finally has a [...]

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Leveraging Virtualisation To Fight Spam

December 23rd, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn

A few weeks ago I ‘inherited’ a frontend anti-spam solution that was getting crushed under the weight of the Christmas run-up. Emails were taking up to a week to arrive at the back-end system and a lot of spam was getting through too.
The solution consisted of two machines each with Dual Core 2.13Ghz Intel’s, 2Gb [...]

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Airsoft Locations in the UK

December 6th, 2007 by Gareth Llewellyn

Whilst Airsoft has nothing to do with IT it is something that I spend a lot of time [and money] on and a while back I decided to try and give something back to the community.
Eventually I came up with a newer version of Frank Bothamley’s Airsoft Map, it has spent a couple of months [...]

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