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16 days ago
I spotted this gem in http://support.microsoft.com/kb/825826: Check for nonpresent, ghosted, or hidden network adapters To uninstall the ghosted network adapter from the registry, complete these steps: Click Start , click Run , type cmd.exe, and then press ENTER. Type set devmgr_show_nonpresent_devices=1, and then press ENTER. Type Start DEVMGMT.MSC, and then press ENTER. Click View , and then click Show Hidden Devices . Expand the Network adapters tree. Right-click the dimmed network adapter, and then click Uninstall . It’s one of those things I’ve often wondered about – so simple when you know how…
132 days ago
Well, the title says it all really. First of all, top marks to Tristan Kington and this Blog du Tristank. It really is the only place I’ve seen clear prescriptive advice on this topic. My tuppence worth is I’ve taken Tristan’s work a tiny step further with this neat little batch file which finds any duplicate spns on your Active Directory Domain: @echo off rem findspns.cmd, Alasdair Cunningham-Smith, ACS Solutions Limited setlocal set SPN=%1 :again if "%SPN%"=="" ( set /p SPN=Please enter the SPN or part thereof to search for ) if "%SPN%"=="" ( goto :again ) ldifde -f CON: -s "%LOGONSERVER:\=%" -t 3268 -r "(ServicePrincipalName=*%SPN%*)" -l ServicePrincipalName endlocal
177 days ago
I’ve just created a load of text files with Visual Studio 2008, only to discover they’re: Unicode (UTF-8 with signature) – Codepage 65001 Very annoying because I wanted ANSI files, and they get marked as binary in Subversion (well, actually they get automatically tagged with the svn:mime-type “application/octet-stream”). The cause of this is that the item templates for TextFile in Visual Studio have the Unicode byte marks. The solution is to knobble them in your copy of visual studio: Go to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates and search for TextFile.zip. On x64 they’re here: %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\ItemTemplates Anyway, depending on your edition of Visual Studio and your installation choices, you may find several of these. In each case, you need to overwrite the two-byte or three-byte TextFile.txt in the zip file with a zero-byte version. You’ll also want to ...
212 days ago
The scenario here is a trixbox server in a predominantly Microsoft shop, and specifically where emails are to be relayed through the local Exchanger Server 2007. If you just try to relay doing the obvious it wont work: http://trixbox1/maint/index.php?generalsettings The reason is not obvious: Even if you leave the Auth Name and Password blank, Postfix will still attempt authentication There appears to be a bug in the trixbox GUI where it fails to run Postmap after setting the credentials (see below) The default trixbox doesn’t have any authentication methods installed which are compatible with Exchange Server 2007 Setting up Relaying on Exchange Server 2007 is 10 times harder than it was in 2000/2003. There are some articles which explain how to configure Postfix to attempt an anonymous send. This is OK if all target user email addresses are on domains for which the relay server is authoritative, but not good if you want to relay through ...
