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The best workaround for “You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console”

If you have installed Internet Explorer 9, and you use Exchange 2010 SP1, you may face the problem that you cannot close the Exchange Management Console (MMC). The error you get is as follows:

image thumb The best workaround for You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console

“You must close all dialog boxes before you can close Exchange management console”

List users in a domain with their creation date

A colleague recently asked me a list of all employees in our company, and their date of hire. As I work at an IT department, I do not have everyones contract. However, I do have the creation date of every account. Since we create accounts a few dates before the date of hire, I could easily create a list of accounts and creation dates in the Exchange Management Shell (Powershell):

Automatically upgrade VMWare Tools on multiple Virtual Machines

A new version of ESX often comes with a new version of VMWare Tools. In my case, I did a migration of ESX 3.5 to vSphere (4.0). A manual installation of VMWare Tools would be pretty time-wasting (50 virtual machines). Therefore, I’ve searched on Google, and found the following solution: Powershell!