Managing User Shares in Windows
So you've probably got a Users folder with directories in matching all your Windows users, so they all have a private "home" drive on your server?
Ever tried to manage permissions on them, or messed permissions up? Or managed to make your Director's files world-readable?
Mananging Exchange users and attributes from your XP desktop
So you are lazy and don't want to waste valuable seconds of your life connecting to an Exchange server to manage a recipient. Easy, add the Exchange attributes to your local copy of Active Directory Management Tools.
Works for Exchange 2000 and 2003 and Windows XP, probably works for the rest as well.
Responding to a Schema Master Failure
There is a little known FSMO role in Active Directory called Schema Master, quite simply it manages changes to your Active Directory Schema. Whilst this is down, no schema changes can be made. Chances are, you'll forget to move this role as it isn't listed in the usual Operations Masters tab.
Does anyone know why?! Anyway, if you've ever lost or moved a Domain Controller, chances are you didn't move this role.
Installing and Configuring SNMP on Windows
Do you want to monitor Windows servers or clients from Cacti or something?
SEO Friendly URLs for CubeCart in Windows
I have a client hosting CubeCart on a Windows server. Unfortunately the built in Apache 2 mod_rewrite rules that come bundled with CubeCart don't work in IIS/Helicon.
Simple fix...
Upgrading from SQL 2000 to 2005 Error -1
Ever had your Upgrade Advisor return an error while upgrading an instance of SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2005?
UpgradeAdvisor returned -1 .
I have, in two different circumstances,
- While choosing an instance from the installed instances and choosing one of them to upgrade.
- While running upgrade advisor exclusively.
NTLM Authentication on Ubuntu and Apache2 Revisited
It's been a while since I've had to build an NTLM integrated Apache2 server.
So I thought I'd take help from Ubuntu's packages and install LAMP from there like most people seem to be doing these days.
Once all that is up and running, you will need to download mod_ntlm_winbind. Its an ancient package I complied years ago from the samba source tree, good news is it still works.
Cleaning up Deleted Items Automatically from Exchange
Do you want to automatically delete Deleted Items in Outlook/Exchange or delete any type of mail over a certain age?
You can use Mailbox Manager to create a recipient policy to automatically delete all messages from users Deleted Items folder, at an interval you specify.
Exchange Server Journaling
I've recently had to setup Journaling on an Exchange Server for a client - it was quite an experience. So I've made these notes that will hopefully help.
Microsoft Exchange Server journalling lets you record a copy of, or journal, all email communications in your
organisation and send them to a dedicated mailbox on an Exchange Server.
Preventing MSN Messenger Spam in Pidgin
I use Pidgin as my instant messenger application. Mainly because it allows me to chat to clients and sub-contractors across Yahoo, Google, MSN etc all in one application, with the added bonus of not being full of spam and adverts to hurt my eyes.
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