Author: --Anand--

Being in Silicon Valley for years, I became a IT Infrastructure Geek by experience and surrounded by other Geeks everywhere. I try to help others by the solutions I found on odd occasions.

When your service account is being locked out constantly….


This might be a bad idea. But this script helps at times when an service account is being locked out constantly, you need time to figure out how it is happening. I wrote this script and schedule to run every 5 minutes to scan my service account lockouts, unlock the account and send me an … Continue reading When your service account is being locked out constantly…. →

SCOM 2007 R2: Disconnected Agents (Event Id 21034)


One day I noticed my servers (agents) were greyed out in Computers node in Monitoring section. You know what’s strange;  those greyed out computers were not even showing up in Agent Managed node in Administration section. All of these greyed out servers, I see this event id 21034. Event Type:        Warning Event Source:        OpsMgr Connector … Continue reading SCOM 2007 R2: Disconnected Agents (Event Id 21034) →

Exchange 2010: “Set as Reply” greyed out


Changing the primary SMTP e-mail address in Exchange system is as easy as select a e-mail address & set as reply in E-Mail Addresses tab in Mailbox properties. Well, now it’s greyed out. Baffled? Don’t be.  Answer: Uncheck the option for Automatically update e-mail addresses based on e-mail address policy. That’s it. E-mail address policy … Continue reading Exchange 2010: “Set as Reply” greyed out →

Outlook: Recover deleted items from any folder (not just Deleted Items folder)


Outlook provides a way to recover items after you have permanently deleted them, including after emptying the Deleted Items folder. Your Exchange server administrator specifies the retention time for permanently deleted items on the Exchange server. After this time has elapsed, you cannot recover the deleted items. By default, to use the Recover Deleted Items … Continue reading Outlook: Recover deleted items from any folder (not just Deleted Items folder) →

Windows 7: Disable wireless when you connect to Wired network & Vice Versa


If you are willing to spend few minutes for this solution, continue reading. It involves firing a batch file based on event log entries using Task Scheduler. 1. Create a batch file named “Wireless_Disable.bat” with the following contents. Open Notepad, copy/paste the following text and save it as above file name. netsh interface set interface … Continue reading Windows 7: Disable wireless when you connect to Wired network & Vice Versa →

Windows: How to flush all user profiles automatically?


How do you delete all user profiles on a Windows Computer or server? Don’t do it manually or don’t search for third-party tools or scripts. You do that very easily by local policy or group policy. Al you have to do is, Click Start, type gpedit.msc in the Start Search box, and then click gpedit … Continue reading Windows: How to flush all user profiles automatically? →

Exchange 2010: “You can’t send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so”


An user had “Send-As” permission on a shared mailbox. But user couldn’t send e-mail as “shared mailbox”.  User is doing it correctly (add the shared mailbox name in From field). But user gets this bounced message: You can't send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so. Please make … Continue reading Exchange 2010: “You can’t send a message on behalf of this user unless you have permission to do so” →