Simple safe web browsing tips
The most important thing to remember about cyber security is that people using their touchpad or mouse are the last line of defense. Technologies such as anti-virus, safe browsers, firewalls, or anything else cannot help if an Internet user clicks on the wrong link or visits the wrong web site. The following tips from Wombat […]
Where did all my space go on Linux?
It happens your systems are working away happily one min and the next they stop. On Linux most of the time it seems that the hard drive or partition fills up and then everything stops. If you open up a SSH and type [root@SLnetTest1 ~]# du -h –max-depth=1 / 399M /opt 16K /lost+found 28M /sbin 13M /boot 412K […]
Exchange 2010 Missing Server configuration in EMC?
I was using outlook locally on a Exchange server. (i know not a good idea) Anyway if you are going to use it to access a mail box DON’T click the remember password. If not next time you log in to the Exchange Management Console it will log on with those credentials and you wont be able to manage […]
Microsoft Exchange PST Capture is used to discover and import .pst files into Exchange Server or Exchange Online
While doing a mass mailbox move from one exchange provider to us i found this handy tool. It allows you to bulk import PST files directly to exchange with no outlook installed. PST Capture helps you search your network to discover and then import .pst files across your environment – all from a straightforward admin-driven tool. PST Capture will […]
Outlook still autodiscovering BPOS after moving off it.
We moved a customer from BPOS (Telstra Hosted Exchange) to our own managed exchange. After hours of backing up mail boxes and restoring (due to the bpos platform being slow) and reseting up the profiles on the local pc i found the autodiscover kept prompting for a username and password for the bpos servers. (red003.mail.apac.microsoftonline.com) […]
Xenserver guest wont shutdown
Got a Xenserver guest that wont shutdown? give this ago 1 – “xe vm-list” to get the uuid of the VM that is hung 2 – “list_domains” to list the domain uuid’s so you can determine the domain # of the VM above by matching the uuids from this output with the uuid for your […]
Xenserver Issues
Some times things go a bit astray like the local hard dive fills up with log files. Once you clean them out you might still not beable to get access to the server via Xencenter Try going to the local shell of the server and type [root@xenserver2 ~]# xe-toolstack-restart Stopping xapi: Lost connection to the server. . […]
How to Enable or Disable Quick Launch Bar Toolbar in Windows 7
Quick Launch Bar has been almost deprecated in Windows 7 as the whole Taskbar been replaced with greatly enhanced Superbar, which now allows shortcut icons to be placed on it directly. For users who miss Quick Launch bar so much to want it back in Windows 7, Microsofthas not yet completely removed the Quick Launch Bar yet, instead the […]
Linksys / Cisco Dial Plans
Just a quick post. Put in a SRP527W for a customer that is using the AT for cordless phones. To make the phone dial quicker i changed the dial plan to (*xxS0|000S0|<:03>[4689]xxxxxxxS0|13[1-9]xxx S0|1300xxxxxxS0|1800xxxxxxS0|0[2478]xxxxxxxxS0|0011xxxxxx.|09xxxxxxS0) It also add’s a 03 for local numbers. (For the SIP providers that need it)
Easy way to add DNS server to Centos 6
The minimal install of Centos 6.2 is exactly that. Very minimal while this is good for appliances if you dont know your way around linux and vi it could be a bit hard to get a network connection going. Here are a few tips i have picked up. Setup a IP address on a nic ifconfig eth0 […]
