I’ve run into this a few times, thought I’d record the solution for once so I remember it. After adding a new user account, the user does not show up in Outlook’s Global Address List, but does show in All Users. (If you click “To” in a new message, for […]
When using Folder Redirection on a Windows 2003 server, the default policy is allow only ownership and permissions to the user. No admin account would have access to this folder. For example, you create a Group Policy to redirect user’s My Documents folders to a home directory on the server. […]
Recently I went to reset a user’s home directory permissions on the server to allow them full control over each file/folder in their home directory. I setup all the normal accounts and of course the actual user account, with Full Control. I then went into Advanced and selected “Replace permission […]
In Internet Explorer 7, Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab. The checkbox for “enable integrated windows authentication” is very confusing. You would think this means “just log me in with my windows credentials”, but no, there’s more to it than that. And what I found was, it simply enables “Negotiate”. It […]
I love how people always say that a software firewall like IPCop is a “lesser” product than a hardware system. I ran into one site speaking of Netsentron as a hardware solution. I’d also include Endian Firewall and Untangle when we talk about a “linux based hardware firewall”. Well here’s […]
I found a ton of help on Google for this “Service Unavailable” issue on the OMA virtual directory for Exchange 2003. Unfortunately, this was not something readily available. Several sites will explain the proper config for all the virtual folders in IIS, which you should obviously follow, but they don’t […]
I fought with this one for a while, like several hours. I installed the pptp addon for IPCop, which, by the way, you must Google for. I installed version 0.2.9 (pptpd_0.2.9.tar.gz) and found that on a forum somewhere. If you go to the addon’s from IPCop, you will only find […]
The basics of this require that we setup a second CPU to take offsite. This system would have AD loaded, GC set, DNS, and all that stuff needed to run AD separately from the network. Here’s the catch, though. We can’t run this and be current. In a disaster, it […]
The shortest interval to download user email with the Exchange Pop3 connector is 15 minutes. Too long for most people. To shorten that to 5 minutes, you have to update/add a registry value in this key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\SmallBusinessServer\Network\POP3 Connector Add Dword: “ScheduleAccelerator”=dword:00000003 Â It works by dividing the default schedule interval […]
When opening files on the network over mapped drive OR UNC, you receive a “publisher” or “security” warning before running the file. Very annoying. In IE, you add the server or domain to your “local intranet” security zone. In my case, my server was: main.domain.localIt was mapped on O: drive. […]
Gregs Uberfast version: Linux: openssl genrsa -des3 -out CA.key 1024openssl req -new -key CA.key -x509 -days 3650 -out CA.crtchmod 400 CA.keychmod 400 CA.crt (the above made a new CA, you want to install the crt into IE’s trusted certs.) Win: Make cert request in IIS – take to Lin. Linux: […]
Greg Fischer 6/15/07 I used Exchange 2000 on Windows 2000 for this, 2003 might be a little different. Obviously, you need to make sure you have the backups in the first place, this assumes you have done this, and we will only focus on recovery. Also, this is intended for […]
Statically/manually define/set duplex on linux network card Use mii-tool or ethtool ////////////////////////////// A Note About Duplex Settings By default, Linux NICs negotiate their speed and duplex settings with the switch. This is done by exchanging electronic signals called Fast Link Pulses (FLP). When the speed and duplex are forced to […]
All these years and I’ve never known how to determine what the “master browser” was on my networks. How many times do you see those event log errors about “such and such is not the master browser” or “unable to get a browse list”. Not that I know how to […]
Event ID 40960 and 40961 “The Security System detected an attempted downgrade attack for server…” In my case, when we logged the user in and opened Windows Explorer to a network share, we received an error. “The system detected a possible attempt to compromise security.” Then in the event logs, […]
We had some computers showing a set of numbers as the computer on a mapped drive. They happened to be some numbers auto-added by Dell setup, I think. But that’s not the issue. It’s just showing the wrong thing on a mapped drive. For example: Running “net view” shows a […]
I was using a Jetdirect print server (parallel) to an HP 960c printer. I got Event ID 6161 when printing with a non-admin user and the spooled docuements said Error. The fix was to set the Jetdirect TCP/IP port on the server as the IP address of the Jetdirect, NOT […]
This used to drive me nuts. Go to Group Policy, set the Last Username display setting to enabled, and you still see the username at logon. What? Most sites you find when searching for this will tell you to adjust the policy (group or local). OR, they will tell you […]
Wow! This has turned out to be a real pain. Below is a process I started, but ran into issues. I could see the module, but it would never make a Wlan0 to access using iwconfig or ifconfig. I tried this on the Trendnet TEW-229UB and the TEW-424UB. Maybe because […]
A few minutes ago I ran into a blog by someone that said something that needed to be said. IT Certs are not really worth getting. I just wanted to save my comments on my own blog to reiterate and edit later. Here’s my comments on his blog: Having spent […]