Exchange 2007 Legacy Mailbox to User Mailbox

For Systems (or Exchange Server) Administrator or Help Support (Helpdesk), if you "mistakenly" create a new mailbox user using Active Directory Users and Computer (ADUC), you will notice that the mailbox you created for that user is tagged/displayed in the Exchange 2007 Management Console as a legacy mailbox. You will loose some features of Exchange 2007 in this mode.

To fix this issue, you need to remove the legacy tag in Exchange 2007 by running the command below (in step 3) in Exchange Management Shell.

Note: This command can be directly performed on one of the Exchange Servers on your network/domain or from your desktop computer. Here, I am going to describe how to run the command from a client computer. If you are running from the Exchange Server box, then go directly to step 2.

1 - Install Microsoft Exchange Management Tools from the Exchanger Server 2007 CD that will also install “Exchange Management Console” and “Exchange Management Shel” on the client computer (Windows XP or Windows Vista with SP1).

Note: Please note that installing Exchange Management Tools requires some steps to follow. If you are not familiar with the instalation, I recommend you read this great article from MSExchange.org. It gives all the steps that will help you out with the installation.

2 - You must Log in as a domain Administrator or member of the domain admin group to be able to run the command

3- Click on Start --> Programs or All Programs --> Exchange Management Tools --> and select "Exchange Management Shell"

3- In the command line that opens, type or copy and paste the following command: Set-Mailbox -Identity "alias" -ApplyMandatoryProperties

4 - Just change "alias" with the mailbox name or the alias and keep the quotations on it.

Please let me know if this helps or if you find a better way of doing it.

Uninstalling SecureClient from Mac OS 10.5

SecureClient (VPN-1) extends the VPN to remote users for safe network access and communication. It encrypts and authenticates data to make connections completely secure, and enables administrators to enforce desktop policies for additional security.

Lots of Mac OS 10.5 (Leopard) users seem to experience problems removing the SecureClient from their systems. It is a very easy and straight forward process.

To uninstall SecureClient,

1) Go to Applications->Check Point SecureClient folder
2) Double-click on the "Uninstall SecureClient" icon. The following window will open prompting you whether you want to remove SecureCleint or not.
3) Type "Y" (without the quotes) and press Enter

4) Enter your password and press Enter or click OK
5) Reboot your system and you are all set!

I hope this helps!

iGetter and RapidShare

iGetter is a powerful, full featured download manager and accelerator and is also known as RapidShare compatible.

iGetter can greatly improve the speed of your downloads using segmented downloading. In addition it allows auto resume on broken downloads, queue filtering by various criteria, site explorer, history list, scheduling downloads for low traffic periods, auto redial on broken connection, auto hang-up and shut down on completion, and much more.

However, lots of people (Mac OS X users) seem to have problem setting up iGetter that enable them to download multiple RapidShare files (.rar, .avi etc).

Below is a "step by step" guideline that will help you set up iGetter with a RapidShare Premium Account.

After downloading and installing iGetter, go to "Tools" and select "Integrate with Internet broswers" option. You will also need to install "Flashgot Addon" for Firefox.

• Go to "iGetter" Tab and select "Preferences" as shown in the picture below (Make sure you have your RapidShare "username" and the "password" in hand).

• Then you need to enter the following entries along with your user info in the Site Manager preferences of iGetter: "http://.rapidshare.com/" and "http://.rapidshare.com/files/"
  

(note that it's not "http://rapidshare.com/" but "http://.rapidshare.com/" which includes all subdomains)

• Once you finish with above configuration, you now go ahead and select as many rapidshare doawnlable files as possible and proceed as shown in the image below.

• Click "Ok" and...

• You should now be able see that the status of your download as shown below.

Please, kindly let me know if this helps!

Using Gmail Notifier with HTTPS

The Google Notifier is an application that shows you alerts in your menu bar, so you can see when you have new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.

However, with the recent add of an option/security feature in Gmail to allow user to use HTTPS for the login and Gmail session, Gmail Notifier does not seems to cooperate well with this Gmail new security feature. Gmail Notifier constantly gives the following error message when users set their Gmail to use the "Always use HTTPS" option in Gmail Settings:

"An error has occurred.
Cannot connect to your mailbox.
Service temporarily unavailable"

Solution: Google has released a patch that fixes the problem (only for windows users. Mac OS X does not seem to experience this issue).

1. Download the patch: http://www.google.com/mail/help/downloads/notifier_https.zip
2. Open up the folder.
3. Double-click on the file called notifier_https.reg to install it.
4. Click 'yes' when you're asked to confirm if you want to add the information to the registry.
5. Restart the Notifier and you are all set.