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Welcome to the 0direction blog! My name is Cory and I am a 10 year veteran of the IT industry currently working for MaximumASP as a Senior System Engineer specializing in Storage and Disaster Recovery. If you find something here that helps you, please leave a comment! If you see something that could be improved or have a question, please send me some feedback! Happy scripting! -Cory

Reading an RSS feed with Powershell

This is a pretty cool (but mostly useless) PowerShell script that uses the System.Net.Webclient class and the DownloadString method. It pulls an RSS feed string from a URL into an XML formatted variable, and then pipes the Rss.Channel.Item property (which is where the meat of the RSS feed is held in the variable) into [...]

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Sending an email with Powershell

This is a handy little function that sends an email using the System.Net.Mail namespace found in .NET 2.0. Can be used for pretty much anything; I use it primarily for error notification if one of my engineers runs a script that fails. It can also send an attachment so you can auto-spam your [...]

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Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell – Part 2

This is part deus of the “Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell” series. Part 1, which you can find here, covered deploying a new hosted domain. This new domain is fully segregated on the exchange server with its own Address Lists, and login using AD accounts with their own UPN. Part 2 will cover creating [...]

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0Direction.com is back up!

Sorry for the lapse in service. Ive been running my blog out of my home over a residential connection through Insight Communications (just never got around to migrating it to my web host, MaximumASP) and after more than a year of doing this, Insight decided that having a few ports open on my firewall [...]

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Configuring Hosted Exchange 2007 using Powershell – Part 1

Hosting Exchange 2007 is a difficult, tedious, and expensive venture to be certain. Taking into consideration the extensive hardware investments required, the development required to create an automated process to deploy new domains, create new mailboxes, set size and feature limitations on those mailboxes (or purchasing support for Microsoft’s HCM solution which uses the [...]

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