Monday, November 22, 2010

Adding external email addresses to an exchange Distribution Group

You need to create the external email addresses as Contacts in Active Directory. To do this, you'll need to leave the SBS wizards and use Active Directory Users and Computers.

1.) Open ADUC from Administrative Tools
2.)  Navigate to MyBusiness, right click and choose New -> Organizational Unit to create a new OU, and call it Contacts
3.)  Right Click on the new OU and select New -> Contact
4.)  Fill in the details for the contact, selecting an SMTP address - the SMTP address will be their external email address.
5.)  Now, you can add them to your distribution group(s)

Note: when you're adding them to the Distribution Group, you will need to explicitly include contact objects in the AD dialog box in the field "Select this object type".

Monday, November 1, 2010

Vmware 4.1 on a HP ML110G6

Just a quick note on this as you need to tweek the standard install (The ML110 is not on the Vmware supported hardware list). Vmware won't install on the system using the onboard SATA DVD drive, you need to use an external drive to run setup successfuly.

The reason it doesn't install is due to the way HP have setup the SATA controller. Unfortunately there is no other way around this as far as i know!