Windows – Bulk Add IP’s
Quite regularly I need to add quite a few IP’s to a server. This can be quite a long and tedious process if you have to do them one by one through the network connection GUI. However it is actually...
View ArticleVMWare Keys Repeating
When administering a VMWare server over a slow connection or over remote desktop you may experience keys repeating as though the key is being held down. This makes the server pretty much impossible to...
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ASN1 Bad Tag When Installing An SSL on SBS 2008
When I was installing a Thawte SSL certificate on to a new small business server 2008 I cam across the following error which prevented me from installing the certificate at first. I thought I would...
View ArticleManually Removing Printers and Printer Drivers
From time to time you may have the need to delete your printers and their drivers however doing this from the printers control panel application may not be possible for some reason or another. Manually...
View ArticleInstalling Windows 7/Vista/2008 From USB
Being able to install Windows from USB has a number of uses. For instance you may be trying to install a server which quite regularly come without DVD drives. I have also found it a lot quicker to...
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Run Commands As System User
Sometimes there may be a need to run a command as the system user however as you may have noticed it is not possible to log directly into this account. To get around this you can use the following work...
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Windows Server 2008 SMTP Logging Not Working
Yesterday I was trying to debug my SMTP service by using the built in IIS logging feature. I enabled logging the same way I always have done in 2003 by selecting the SMTP server properties however no...
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Changing the Windows drive letter
Although it is not recommend there are some times when you may need to change the letter of your Windows drive from C: to another letter or it may have changed by itself to another letter and you need...
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Custom 404.ASP Page Displaying Code
When implementing a custom 404 ASP page for a client recently I found that the code of the page was displaying as text rather than the parsed code. Accessing the custom 404 page directly however worked...
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Allow sender spoofing in Exchange 2007
Recently while working on a client’s exchange server I had the need to setup a user which could send from domains that were not being hosted on the server. The reason for this was due to a legacy...
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