DexterPOSH's Blog

A while back I had blogged about using PowerShell to create a playlist of random songs in VLC player & I had a rudimentary function based on that in my profile. 001 002 003 004 005 006 function   play-song {      param ( [int] $count = 5 ,   [string] $Path = "D:\Songs" )      Get-ChildItem   $Path   -recurse   -filter   *.mp3 |   Get-Random   -Count   $count   |          ForEach-Object   -process  {  Start-Process   $_ . Fullname  -verb   'AddtoPlaylistVLC' } } I know the name contains an unapproved verb but I was lazy to change it. Few days back I thought of extending above function a little bit, so that my laptop Sleeps when the songs in the playlist end (hopefully I would have slept by that time )

My recent dive into the Mobile Device & Email Management space has presented me with an opportunity to learn Exchange & Office 365. I have built up an Azure VM running Server 2008 R2 with Exchange 2010 Server on it. It didn't made a whole lot of sense to connect to the machine using RDP and then running cmdlets on Exchange Management Shell. Well I must admit that I tried opening a normal PSSession and importing the Exchange cmdlets in there but that didn't work as the Microsoft.Exchange endpoint configuration is hosted on IIS. So here are the steps I followed to get the Exchange cmldets via Implicit Remoting, this is very similar to what we do with Office 365. This is a beginner post as am still wrapping my head around Exchange ;) Open the endpoint on the cloud service to allow the HTTPS traffic to your Exchange Server. Here is how the endpoints appear for my Exchange box. Note that the Public and Private port are both 443 which means when I try reach my c