How To Determine Physical Memory on a Remote Machine (slots, chips number and size...)

Hi all,
after a lot of time far from my blog, I'm here again, this time to post a simple and quick command to determine remotely how much physical ram is installed on a machine.

open a command prompt and execute this (replace "server01" with your server name):

wmic /node:server01 memorychip get banklabel, devicelocator,caption,capacity

the result in my case is:

BankLabel  Capacity    Caption          DeviceLocator
           1073741824  Physical Memory  DIMM 01
           1073741824  Physical Memory  DIMM 02
           1073741824  Physical Memory  DIMM 03
           1073741824  Physical Memory  DIMM 04

so, there are 4 dimm installed, each one 1GB 

If you need, there are also other information, from command prompt try (change server01) :

wmic
/node:server01
memorychip

you'll see all the columns available.
You could also try to run
wmic /node:server01 mmemorychip
but the output is a little bit messed up, I don't suggest it to you

bye
Digger

Outlook Shared Mailbox - folder disappeared

Hi all,
this time I would like to share what I just discovered on Outlook.

We are using many Outlook with the cache enabled in our company, connected to the Exchange server in another country with a slow wan connection.

Many users have shared mailboxes configured in Outlook and it happens very often that some folder simply "disappear" from the shared mailbox.
But it is not deleted, because using web-access (OWA) the folder is still there!

It seems that nothing but delete the cache can resolve this, I tried scanost, tried closing outlook, restarting the pc, and many other things but at the end only deleting and recreating the cache resolved the issue and make the folder reappeas.
The problem is the bandwidth impact, if you are using a slow wan like me is a nightmare to delete 10GB of cache and redownload from the WAN, it could take hours!

Until now.
I discovered that the workaround is simply to go to one of the user that doesn't see the folder anymore and CREATE a new folder with a RANDOM name in the shared mailbox (for example "dummy").
Once done it happened to me that magically the missing folder reappered to the ALL the users that was missing it! so not just on this pc but also all the other.

The workaround is not perfect, in one occasion the first time I tried the folder appeared and disappeared in 1 second, I had to delete the dummy folder and recreate again, the missing one appeared and I clicked it so that the sync process started. From that point on , the folder didn't disappeared again.

Also I still need to test it in other situations, for example in mailboxes with many sub-folders, but until now this is the faster and less bandw. impacting workaround I have found.

Let me know your experience and if this workaround is working also for you :)

bye
Digger