Author: killyvehy

Clematis x cartmanii ‘Early Sensation’

Clematis x cartmanii ‘Early Sensation’

Early (April – May) flowering evergreen clematis with glossy finely divided leaves and masses of 7.5 cm (3″) white flowers with green centers. Supposedly scented, I couldn’t smell anything from the flowers. Some people say the whole plant has a citrus smell but again I couldn’t get anything.

Grows to about 2 meters and can be grown in a large pot. Requires a west or south facing wall with protection from wind. You can grow it up trellis or as just let it sprawl.

Mailbox Rules

Get rules list

Get-InboxRule -Mailbox <mailbox name or alias>

Get detail on each rule

Get-InboxRule -Mailbox <mailbox name or alias>  -Identity “<rule name>” | Select -Property *

Disable Rule

Disable-Inboxrule -identity “<Rule name>” -mailbox <mailbox name or alias>

Remove Rule

Remove-Inboxrule -identity <Rule Name> -mailbox <mailbox name or alias>

Glasshouse Crops

Dutch bucket system

I’m growing cucumbers, melons, padron peppers, tomatoes and watermelons this year.

I decided to use soil-less media (perlite) with an automatic watering system. The pots are 25 liters, the overflow pipes are 15 mm pex and the return pipe is 50 cm plastic pipe.

Pot and water/feed tank

I lined the pots with a generous amount of gardening fleece to contain the perlite and also to make it easier to remove at the end of the season.

The silver container is a 100 liter plastic storage box which is painted black to keep out the sunlight to stop the water going green. The silver layer is insulating sheet to keep the water warm at night and cool during the day, it also reduces the light.

The water tank has a submersible garden pool pump that pumps water though the blue hose. Water lines come off the blue hose for each pot and the water is delivered to each pot with drip lines.

pot showing perlite and drip lines

The tank also has an air pump to aerate the water and an aquarium heater to keep the water at 20 degrees C on cool nights.

Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’

Really nice small (3 meters) tree with orange green leaves in the spring fading to green as the season progresses. It grows fast and is reliable. It’s also got orange autumn colour. This is a type of Japanese Maple.

It’s in a 55 cm pot.

Acer palmatum ‘Orange Dream’

I bought mine in Lidl about 7 years ago.

The climber, also a Lidl special, behind it is Clematis ‘Błękitny Anioł’ (syn. ‘Blue Angel’), a Polish variety with blueish violet flowers in July. I remove the growing tips after 4 or 5 leaves to encourage bushiness; I get a lot of small flowers over a longer period.

Clematis ‘Błękitny Anioł’

Creating a Pinpoint DNS Zone

You want to return different IP addresses for the same hostname from different DNS servers for users that are in different regions. For example, have DNS servers in the ABC return “1.2.3.4” for my.domain.com and DNS servers in XYZ return “5.6.7.8” for same name.

domain.com is an internal Active Directory DNS zone

With pinpoint DNS, you are creating a primary DNS zone in your namespace for the purposes of controlling replication traffic and delivering it to people who are only using that DNS server.

In a nutshell, we are creating a Standard/Primary DNS zone named the same as the hostname you want to answer for (in this case, my.domain.com) with a single host and then choosing which DNS servers will receive a replica of this zone.  The zone will have a single A record for “my.”, which will resolve to 1.2.3.4 for ABC users and 5.6.7.8 for our XYZ users.

Configure First Primary DNS Server

  1. Launch the DNS Management Console and connect to your primary DNS server.
  2. Right-click Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone.
  3. On the New Zone Wizard page, click Next.
  4. Ensure that the radio button Primary Zone is selected (it is selected default).
  5. If the DNS server is also a Domain Controller, the Store the zone in Active Directory checkbox will be selected by default. CLEAR IT and click Next.
  6. In the Zone name text box, enter the FQDN of the new zone (in our example, my.domain.com, and click Next).
  7. The radio button Create a new file with this file name is selected by default. Click Next.
  8. The radio button Do not allow dynamic updates is selected by default. Click Next.
  9. Click Finish.
  10. Expand Forward Lookup Zones and select your newly created zone (my.domain.com is what we are configuring).
  11. Right-click on the new zone (my.domain.com) and select Properties.
  12. Select the Zone Transfers tab.
  13. The Allow zone transfers checkbox is selected by default. Select the Only to the following servers radio button.
  14. Click Edit.
  15. In the Allow Zone Transfers dialog box, click the blank line that says <Click here to add an IP Address or DNS name> and enter the addresses (one per line) for the additional DNS servers you want to host this zone.
  16. Click OK when done to close the Allow Zone Transfers dialog box.
  17. Click OK to close the DNS zone properties dialog box.
  18. Right-click on the new zone (my.domain.com) and select New  Host (A or AAAA)…
  19. In the New Host dialog box, leave the Name field blank (the record will be created with an “my.”, meaning it answers for the name of the zone that it’s in).
  20. In the New Host dialog box, enter the IP address for this host (1.2.3.4, in our example) and click the Add Host button.

Configure First Secondary DNS Server

  1. Launch the DNS Management Console and connect to your secondary DNS server.
  2. Right-click Forward Lookup Zones and select New Zone.
  3. On the New Zone Wizard page, click Next.
  4. Select the radio button for Secondary Zone and click Next.
  5. In the Zone name text fox, enter the FQDN of the zone you created in step 6 above and click Next.
  6. On the Master DNS Servers page, enter the IP address of the Primary DNS Server (the server used in Step 1 under “Configure Primary DNS Server”) and press Enter.
  7. Click Next.
  8. Click Finish.
  9. Repeat for each additional secondary DNS server to configure.

Configure Second Primary DNS Server

  1. Follow steps 1-19 outlined for the first Primary DNS server.
  2. Replace the IP address in step 20 with the IP address of the second host you want to use (in our example, 5.6.7.8).

Configure Second Secondary DNS Server

  1. Follow steps 1-5 outlined for the first Secondary DNS server.
  2. Replace the IP address in step 6  with the IP address used for the second Primary DNS server.
  3. Complete steps 7-9.

Purge Mailbox Deleted Items Folder

Get current Settings

Get-Mailbox service@contoso.de | Format-List SingleItemRecoveryEnabled,RetainDeletedItemsFor

or use

Get-mailbox service@contoso.de | fl *retention*,*retain*

Set New Settings

Set-Mailbox -Identity service@contoso.de -SingleItemRecoveryEnabled $false -RetainDeletedItemsFor 1

#Purges folder deletes after 1 day

Delete Items in Dumpster

Search-mailbox -identity service@contoso.de -SearchDumpsterOnly -DeleteContent

View Recoverable items in Dumpster

Get-MailboxFolderStatistics service@contoso.de -FolderScope RecoverableItems | Format-List Name,FolderAndSubfolderSize

Remove a Name Server from All Reverse Zones

##############################

# The following section contains all input parameters

$DC = “DC1.contoso.internal” # Domain controller to be used

$nameserver = “DNS.contoso.internal” # Nameserver to remove

#

##############################

$list = Get-DnsServer -ComputerName $DC | select -Property serverzone -ExpandProperty serverzone | where  {$_.isdsintegrated -eq “true” -and $_.isreverselookupzone -eq “true”} | select -Property zonename

foreach ($zone in $list ) {Remove-DnsServerResourceRecord -ComputerName $DC -ZoneName $zone.zonename -RRType Ns -Name “@” -RecordData $nameserver -Force}