XP SP3

Lifehacker have just put up notice that XP SP3 is available a little early from some sites if you want to give it a try. Official release is probably sometime next week. From what I hear it's well worth installing.

Lifehacker Link

Free M50 Traffic Alerts

The NRA are giving free (as far as I can see) SMS and Email traffic alerts for the M50. Well worth signing up for:

https://www.nratraffic.ie/m50/pages/

Sign up to receive email or SMS notification of traffic alerts about incidents and works causing long delays during the construction. You can also receive a regular newsletter with details of construction progress and notification of upcoming works.

Auto exmerge for exchange

I'm often asked about a nice script for automating exmerge for exchange. This creates pst backups of each mailbox for easy recovery. There are problems if a mailbox is over 2GB but I'll cover that another day.

For the moment create your exmerge user and give them the appropriate rights to the mail store. Then right click on exmerge and run as and use your desired settings, don't forget to click save settings at the end. THis saves your choices to the ini file.

After that create a batch file with the following text:

del D:\exmerge\old\*.pst
copy D:\exmerge\*.pst D:\exmerge\old\
C:
cd \
cd "Program Files"
cd Exchsrvr
cd BIN
EXMERGE -F EXMERGE.ini -B -D

And then create a recurring task using the above user with this batch file. It couldn't be simpler.

I'll add a bit more explanation later.