I spent some time earlier automating the backups of our appliance configuration to a restricted network share and thought I’d share a simple batch script to backup the configuration from multiple Juniper Netscreen (ScreenOS) firewalls.
@echo off
REM ================================================================
REM CONFIGURATION INFO
REM ================================================================
set USERNAME=backupAccount
set PASSWORD=superSecretPassword
set CFGFILE=BackupList.txt
set DESTDIR=C:\Backups\

REM ================================================================
REM STOP CHANGING HERE OR YOU’LL BREAK SOMETHING
REM ================================================================
SET TIMESTAMP=%date:~-4,4%.%date:~-7,2%.%date:~-10,2%
for /F [...]

Now that I’m well under way with my Exchange 2007 migration I figured it’d be a good time to test the new Exchange recovery process.
To cut a long story short, it’s a long process as most of the functionality is via Powershell rather than the Exchange Management Console.
Anyway, here’s a quick guide.
1. Create the recovery [...]