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Close Your PowerShell Sessions! – Office 365

Post author By Mikail
Post date July 19, 2011

If you have ever received the error message below or a similar one then you are not closing your PowerShell sessions properly (or at all!).

[serverName] Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WS-Management service cannot process the request. This user is allowed a maximum number of 3 concurrent shells, which has been exceeded. Close existing shells or raise the quota for this user. For more information, see the about_Remote_Troubleshooting Help topic.
+ CategoryInfo : OpenError: (System.Manageme….RemoteRunspace:RemoteRunspace) [], PSRemotingTransportException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : PSSessionOpenFailed

Tags office 365, powershell

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Make Your Self Owner of All Distribution Groups – Office 365

Post author By Mikail
Post date July 19, 2011

There are a number of reasons why you may want to make your self an owner of all distribution groups in Office 365. One is that you are an IT Administrator of the organisation in question and wish to moderate the distribution groups in the Exchange Online GUI/PowerShell without running in to permission problems.

Tags distribution groups, office 365, powershell

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Setting up Lync SRV Records with Claranet – Office 365

Post author By Mikail
Post date July 9, 2011

Office 365 is (in a nutshell) a bunch of Microsoft services and software that are (mainly) cloud based.
Some of the important features to trial in Office 365 before we conclude whether it is something we want to go ahead and adopt are the Exchange Online, Sharepoint, Lync and Office Web Apps.

Whilst attempting to trial Microsoft Lync, I came across a few problems trying to add the SRV records to our domain host, Claranet.
A SRV record has many parts to it which I thought were not adequately labelled in Claranet’s control panel. Even after following online examples (Wikipedia has a good one), I was still not able to get it working.

Tags claranet, dns, lync, office 365, srv

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Getting GTranslate to Work with WordPress and HTTPS

Post author By Mikail
Post date June 9, 2011

I installed GTranslate on my blog (the one you’re reading!) not long ago and noticed a strange problem I was having with settings not being saved and the plug-in not showing up as a widget on the home page when it was activated.
If you have the same problem, you will notice the “Configure it from WP-Admin -> Settings -> GTranslate to see it in action” showing up in your widget bar.

Tags gtranslate, https, plugin, wordpress

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How to Boost your Wireless Strength with DD-WRT

Post author By Mikail
Post date June 4, 2011

If you have a DD-WRT powered router then you already know how powerful and feature-full it is, compared to a standard out-of-the-box ISP provided router.

This article will be about making use of the features that DD-WRT provides out of the box, as well as some other ‘hacks’ we can use to boost the wireless signal in your home or office.
The ones I will talk about today are as follows (in order of usefulness and ease):

Wireless channel selection
Update firmware and/or drivers!
Transmit (Tx) Power
Beacon Interval

Tags ddwrt, Networking, ssh, wireless