Ubuntu Chrome Kiosk Setup

So at work we have a couple of computer setup in a public area that can be used to access our web site.  In the past we have used Windows XP and locked them down.  However, with support for XP coming to an end we needed to come up with another solution.  I wanted to branch out a bit (at least for me) and come up with a kiosk setup that used a Linux distro .  I came across  some really good options, but one of the requirements was that the browser should be Google Chrome.  Most of the sites I came across used FireFox as the browser.  I spent a few weeks searching and testing and finally came up with a working solution that uses Ubuntu 14.0.4LTS Desktop (x64), Openbox, and Google Chrome.  I used information from the web sites listed below to come up with this working kiosk.…

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Exchange 2013 – Grant Permissions to Room Resource

We have several room resources in our Exchange 2013 environment.  Occasionally, we need to make changes so new people can actually see what appointments are scheduled and not just see “busy” in the time slot.  I used to be able to make these changes via Exchange Management Console in previous versions of Exchange; however, it looks like I have to go to Exchange Management Shell now.
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Site Status

Wow, where have the past 5 months gone?  It’s hard to believe that 2014 is about half over already.  It has been an up and down first half of the year.  Work has been good, but I haven’t had any major projects going on that I’ve needed post about on here for future reference.  I guess that is kind of good and bad.  I kind of expect that will be changing some in the next few weeks.  So please come back periodically and see if anything has changed.…

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Exchange 2010 – Add Reviewer to Room Resource

Exchange LogoToday we had someone make a request for a few users to be able to see what appointments were scheduled for some room resources.  They didn’t want these people to add any appointments, but just needed to be able to see what was scheduled rather than seeing “Busy”.  I came across this site which has the PowerShell commands to set the Reviewer permission.  The article talks about changing the Default user permission which is not what I wanted to do.  So I used add–mailboxfolderpermission cmdlet instead of the set-mailboxfolderpermission cmdlet.
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Exchange

UPDATED: Exchange 2010 – Move mailbox to new AD account

PowerShell logoAt work we are getting ready to create new user accounts for everyone and move their mailbox from the current AD account to the new account. The reason for this is a bit lengthy, but a big reason is people have been granted permissions based on their AD account rather than by group membership. So by switching AD accounts we can clean things up a bit. Currently the format of our usernames is first initial last name (example: John Doe is JDoe), and we will be changing to a first name dot last name format (example: John.Doe).…

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Exchange, PowerShell

Just checking in

Hey, I’m not sure if anyone else is really looking at this site, but just in case I wanted to post a message saying I’m still here. We have a lot of changes/upgrades taking place this summer at work so I’ve been pretty busy and haven’t been able to post much. We’ve been setting up 4 Cisco Nexus 5K switches and installing 2 new NetApp SANs. So we’ve been a little busy. I do have some things to post, but they will take a little time to get together. The big one will be the user script we’ve been working on. If you saw the earlier post about using PowerShell to post to an ActiveMQ script, this will be a continuation. It will have more about that and also include a section for creating folders on the NetApp SAN using CIFs, setting share permissions, and then setting NTFS permissions.…

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Exchange 2010 – Using Remote PowerShell

Exchange LogoToday I’ve been looking into how I can create and Exchange Mailbox using PowerShell.

A little background. We have been using PowerShell to create new Active Directory accounts for awhile, but hadn’t looked into being able to create the mailbox on Exchange at the same time. The biggest problem (more a concern) is that I thought we needed to install the Exchange Management Tools (EMC and EMS) on our domain controllers or admin desktops. I was concerned these servers and computers wouldn’t get updated at the same time as our Exchange Servers and I didn’t want services packs and other updates to get out of sync.…

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Exchange, Microsoft

PowerShell and ActiveMQ

PowerShell logoWe have a project going on at work that requires us to take gather specific information about users from Active Directory and get it into another system. We already use PowerShell to create all of our new user accounts so we wanted to stick with that. However, the other system we have to get the information into requires us to write the AD information to an ActiveMQ queue. The preferred format for this information is XML. So I was asked to come up with a way to accomplish this.…

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Microsoft, PowerShell