Receive email notification when WAN link on SonicWALL firewall goes down
SonicWALL Failover and Load Balancing features work pretty well. Actually so well, that you may end up with one of your WAN links being down without realising it for days! To prevent this, you can setup an email alert to notify you whenever a failover event occurs.
- Go to Log > Automation
- Enter your email address in "Send Alerts to E-mail Address:" field
- In "Mail Server Settings" section enter details for your SMTP server
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Configure MS Exchange Web Access to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
- Open IIS (Internet Information Services) Manager Console
- Select Default Web Site and double click on HTTP Redirect
- Check "Redirect requests to this destination" box and enter your OWA https address where you want to redirect to.
i.e. https://webmail.company.com/owa - Select "Only redirect requests to content in this directory (not subdirectories)"
- In "Status Code" select "Found (302)"
- Check "Redirect requests to this destination" box and enter your OWA https address where you want to redirect to.
- Open HTTP Redirect in each of following virtual directories and clear "Redirect requests to this destination" box
- Autodiscover
- Ecp
- EWS
- Microsoft-Server-ActiveSync
- OAB
- Owa
- PowerShell
- PowerShell-Proxy
- Rpc
Read more: Configure MS Exchange Web Access to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS
Deploy Outlook email templates (stationary) on multiple computers via GP
Microsoft Outlook Personal Stationary feature allows to apply a template for all new emails. This can be enabled in File > Options > Mail > Stationary and Fonts > Personal Stationary > Theme.
Outlook themes are standard HTML files and are stored in C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Stationery (on 32bit machines); or C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\microsoft shared\Stationery (on 64bit machines).
To create a new custom template, simply create a new HTML file and then place it one of the above folders so Outlook can "see" it.
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How to determine which server is default time server in Active Directory Domain
In Windows Active Directory Domain, the default authoritative time server is the server holding PDC Emulator (primary domain controller emulator) FSMO role.
To find out which server holds PDC Emulator role run:
netdom query fsmo
Windows Server 2003
Windows Server 2008
Windows Server 2012
Read more: How to determine which server is default time server in Active Directory Domain
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