This week is our Christmas and New Year special. We talk about our favourite podcasts and a lot more besides.

• How to find 25mb or larger messages in Exchange
• Change GPO which has a UNC path for Application Deployment
• What is the impact of upgrading the Domain or Forest Functional Level?
• How to check DNS propagation on Linux

SysAdmin Podcasts

• Security Now
• Mike Tech Show
• Podnutz daily
• Geeksters
• My hard drive died
• Run As Radio
• Techsnap
• Tech-Vets
• Call that Girl – Office 365
• Devops Mastery

Linux Podcasts

• Linux Outlaws
• Linux Luddites
• UUPC
• Linux Voice
• Bad Voltage
• Linux for the Rest of Us

Al’s Choice

• Knight wise
• Still untitled: with Adam Savage
• Urban Bushcraft Podcast

Jerry’s Choice

• Triangulation
• RadioLab
• Naked Scientists
• Costing the Earth
• Little Atoms
• TWIS
• Guardian Science Weekly
• Recycled Electrons
• The Life Scientific
• Star Talk Radio

Andy’s Choice

• Jodcast
• Astronomy Cast
• Infinite Monkey Cage
• Lou Trek show

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This week we have a special guest, Simon, talking about NTP. And we discuss other stuff too, of course.

Timely stuff:

• To view the time client configuration: W32tm /query /configuration (look at Type, will probably say NTP) and you can see which is your NTP server too.
• To compare time between your local device and an NTP source: w32tm /stripchart /computer: target
• To configure your PDC Emulator to use an NTP time source: w32tm /config /manualpeerlist:<peers> /syncfromflags:manual /reliable:yes /update (taken from http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc794937(v=WS.10).aspx)
• How to use pool.ntp.org: http://www.pool.ntp.org/en/use.html
• How to reset the time service:
  • net stop w32time
  • w32tm /unregister
  • w32tm /register
  • net start w32time

• The fix for getting Windows DC to obtain time from a non-Windows NTP server:  http://support.microsoft.com/kb/875424 (note this fixed it for me in 2008 server)
• Windows Time Service Technical Reference: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/a0fcd250-e5f7-41b3-b0e8-240f8236e210#w2k3tr_times_intro

Not timely stuff:

• DKIM Email signing/verification technology
• Plesk – switching MTA from qmail to postfix
• Command to display Group polices applied to the computer section “GPRESULT /R /SCOPE /COMPUTER”
• Cloned Computers not reporting in WSUS
• Manjaro Linux
• Disk Part
• Sites and Services
• Live Christmas Show on the 19th December 21:00 UTC 

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This week one of Andy’s customers has an idea to solve all our IT problems, Jerry goes round in loops and Al gives a drawing lesson.

• Get a list of mailbox sizes in Exchange 2010
• Code 2 Office 365 Migration tool
• Office 365 Office Requirements 
• Cpanel
• For Loop in BASH
• Single and Multimode Fibre
• Router Video
• What are Domains and Forests
• Trusted and Trusting domains
• nltest: /dsgetdc:domainname.local
• First time at oggcamp
• Routers, The Internet & YouTube Offline – Computerphile

The drawing of the Domain and Forest we talked about in the show

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