Announcing the Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator Beta

Microsoft announced Exchange Client Network Bandwidth Calculator Beta which helps IT Administrators to plan for their Network Bandwidth.

What does it do?

The brief was concise and simple for this calculator; able to predict the client network bandwidth requirements for a specific set of users. The calculator needed to deal with Outlook, OWA and Mobile Devices, both on-premises and for Office 365 scenarios.

The following clients are included in this Beta; further clients will be added over time.

• Outlook 2010
• Outlook 2007
• Outlook 2003
• OWA 2010
• OWA 2007
• Windows Mobile
• Windows Phone

For more details go through: http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2012/02/10/announcing-the-exchange-client-network-bandwidth-calculator-beta.aspx

Powershell scripts library for windows system administrators

You may find the below collection of scripts useful for your daily windows administration.
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General Powershell:

• How to find your powershell version
• How to change text to title case using powershell
• How to convert a string to array
• Create a powershell variable to always show current time
• Tip for easy navigation in powershell console
• Change WMI time format to local time format using powershell
• How to install Powershell in on Windows 2008 R2 Core server
• Add color to powershell codes while posting to your blog
• Convert a date from string type to date time object using powershell
• How to get pop-up message box using powershell
• $OFS — a special variable in powershell
• List duplicate entries count in powershell array using powershell
• Expand values in multi-valued property using powershell
• How to find variable type in powershell
• Administering remoting feature in Windows 7 powershell
• Use powershell to know given path is absolute or relative
• Remove items from array using powershell
• Eject CD drive using powershell
• Get online help account about powershell commands
• How to assign output to variable and print on the console at the same time
• Find out the functions and cmdlets in a powershell module

General Windows:

• Get windows cluster instances status using powershell
• Uninstall Hotfixes using powershell
• How to get list of mapped network drives using powershell
• Assign static IP address to Windows computer using powershell
• Get laptop battery charging status using powershell
• Get the laptop battery state using powershell
• Change monitor brightness using powershell
• Minimize all windows and applications using powershell
• Get CPU architecture using powershell
• Get CPU utilization of remote computer using powershell
• Query application error events from application log using powershell
• Change Windows Event log size using powershell
• Enable auto login for administrator account in windows 7 using powershell
• Query error events in event log using PowerShell
• Audit local administrator password on workstations and servers using powershell
• How to get hardware details of remote computes using powershell
• A script to monitor your server restart
• Get Operating system architecture (32-bit or 64-bit) using powershell
• Pin applications to task bar using powershell
• Close applications gracefully using powershell
• Get disk free space details from remote computer using powershell
• Get remote computer uptime using powershell
• Check if a registry key exists on remote computer using powershell
• Clear event log using powershell
• Query performance counter values using powershell
• Start application in minimized, maximized and hidden modes using powershell
• Check application installation status using powershell

File and Folders:

• How to create temporary files using powershell
• Query file creation time, modification time, size, and permissions using powershell
• Get folder size using powershell
• How to compare two file versions using powershell
• Merge file contents using powershell
• Find zero size files using powershell

Process Management:

• Find the owner of a process using powershell
• Easy way to kill processes on remote computer using powershell
• Get process details of remote computer using powershell

BIOS:

• How to get BIOS details of remote computer using powershell

Service Management:

• Start/stop/restart services on remote computer using powershell
• How to get logon account of services on remote computer
• Easy and quick way to stop/start/restart services on remote computer using powershell

Network Management:

• How to test TCP port connectivity using powershell
• Resolve Name to IP and IP to Name using powershell
• Get Network adaptor connection status using powershell
• Get list of hidden shares in your network using powershell

VMware:

• Expand virtual machine hard disk using powershell
• Find who else connected to a VM console in Virtual Center
• Download Powershell CLI cmdlets quick reference poster

SCOM:

• How to use SCOM cmdlets from normal powershell console
• Get SCOM groups of a computer using powershell

Active Directory:

• How to know originating DC of a active directory object using powershell
• Query active directory group members using native cmdlets
• Get Domain controller details using powershell

Exchange:

• Verify public folder replication status using powershell

MISC:

• Convert VB script to Powershell
• SCVMM powershell cmdlet reference
• Get database list from SQL server using powershell

PowerShell: How to get nested Active Directory group members

PowerShell: How to get nested Active Directory group members