If you see that contacts in Outlook are not being synced with your Blackberry you can first ensure that wireless sync is enabled. If it is you may need to reset and reload your contacts. To do this go into contacts and press the Blackberry button and select options. Type RSET (nothing appears as you [...]
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If you have a Domain and Forest functional level of 2008 you should be able to create DFS Namespaces that are enabled for Windows 2008 mode. However when creating a DFS I noticed that this option was greyed out. I checked again in Active Directory to confirm the Forest and Domain was running at a [...]
Being able to test against multiple OS’s is great if you are developing an application. Virtual machines are perfect for this with the nature of the flexibility they offer. However I needed to setup a physical computer that would multiboot for testing that would run Windows XP, XP 64 bit, Vista Business, Vista Business 64 [...]
Fail2Ban can compliment your Asterisk security by automatically blocking failed authentication attempts against your asterisk server. However a little configuration is needed to let Fail2Ban be aware of the structure of the asterisk log files so it can “read” the log files and block the failed attempts. First we need to install fail2ban and jwhois [...]
Chris Akrigg’s Road to recovery.
Windows 7 changes the way “All Users” is handled compared to XP All users desktop: C:\Users\Public\Desktop\ All users start menu: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\
With trialing the open source ticketing system Request Tracker I wanted to setup an email address that requests could go to and for Request Tracker to pick up these emails and put them into a queue. The common way for doing this is to use fetchmail to collect mail via pop3 and to then place [...]
I needed to confirm DNS was correctly set on a remote computer but I could disrupt the user on the remote PC. I knew that DNS info is stored in the registry so simply used Regedit and then used connected network registry to connect up to the remote PC. Browsing to: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Tcpip\Paramaters provides you with [...]
Quick and handy command to remotely shut down a windows PC shutdown -s -m \\computername -t 01 In this case the switches are -s = shutdown, -m = remote machine and -t is time until shutdown in seconds, in this example 1 second. Naturally you must have local admin rights on the remote machine to [...]
