Recently one of our technicians was working on migration of mailboxes from an on-premise Exchange server to the online services of Office 365. During this process we had found that the on-site Exchange server was of the 2007 variety. Working with the first public iteration of PowerShell, we created the following hammer to list all […]
With more and more small/medium businesses moving their email hosting to the cloud, we are finding that current UserPrincipalNames are either not usable in the cloud due to the domain name used or we would prefer not to. After setting up a few clients, we here at Tech With a Hammer, decided there must be […]
Here, at Tech With a Hammer, found that as more and more services are providing support for IPv6, ISPs around the world are not jumping on board the IPv6 train. For many reasons, like the lack of proper IPv6 support in the firewalls provided to the end users, to internal infrastructure requiring numerous upgrades which […]
After working with and investigating many different vendors and manufacturers of networking equipment, we have come to choose FortiGate for our small/medium business solutions. Out of the box these FortiGate devices are configured to act like your usual home router, with all LAN ports setup as a logical port, and then the WAN and DMZ […]
We have found that when trying to perform a factory reset with FortiGate devices running FortiOS, this can be done in a multitude of ways.
In some environments, and depending on the user training, Exchange admins may run into a shared mailbox in which there are limitless folders and subfolders. Instead of the users administrating the permissions and access to their shared mailboxes and the folders, the administrators are usually the ones that will perform these tasks. It is tedious […]
We keep running into the issue where in many networks, some only 5 user and other 150+ user environments, users forget to change their passwords every 90 days. Even though we have the domains configured to start warning them 7 days ahead of time, they seem to ignore the little bubble. Anyone that has ever […]
There came a time where we needed to perform some system enumeration in a large Environment, verify which subnet these servers were in, if the DNS records still existed, and if the servers were still active. After much searching we found a script which pointed us in the right direction, though we needed to perform […]
For many of those working with Sage 50, you may have run into the issue where the Sage 50 client is unable to open the company file spitting out an error message along the lines of “database engine reported an error”.