maximizer display layout/format problem

yeah, Maximizer the CRM ...

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Maximizer-CRM/85943035837?ref=ts&v=wall

Mary said her Maximizer screen layout is annoying, she couldn't change it.

She logon to another PC, all good.

log onto as a different user ... its good.

so its a profile problem.

copy her profile. delete and re-create the profile, its all good.

Windows 7 easy transfer and user profile service failed the logon on a band new Windows 7 PC

this HP PC takes aweful long time to create the easy transfer stuff on my rundisk usb thumb drive.

this is not end of trouble yet, after created two addtional users, those users can't log-on.

well I have to continued to work on those problem tommorrow.

A number is out of range. my adobe reader is giving me problem

quite annoying, yeah its related to foxit
A number is out of range.
http://forums.adobe.com/message/2240508

outlook 2003 stuck downloading pop3 email

restart pc , still no luck, yeah AVG pop3 filtering is dedicating to work,

there must something stuck in the queue. un-installing AVG fixed the problem

APC UPS software single node FREE version 8.0.1

I downloaded this free one-node version for IBM 1000T UPS, this is agent only, but it setup a local website for someone to do local manage.

yet to figure out SBS 2008's built-in UPS management.

once again ports for SBS 2008

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sbs/cc817589.aspx

You may need to open the following ports, depending on the services you want to make available:




Port 25 TCP – SMTP (Outgoing Exchange e-mail)

Port 80 TCP – HTTP

Port 443 TCP – HTTPS (RWW, OWA, remote desktop or Terminal Server sessions)

Port 987 TCP – External secure Companyweb access

Port 1723 TCP – PPTP (VPN)

If port 80 is not open, then you must specify https:// for RWW connections; otherwise if port 80 is open you can use http:// and the session will be redirected automatically to port 443. If your router is configured to use UPnP, the Internet Address Management Wizard (IAMW) will open port 80

load 32bit printer driver in SBS 2008 (x64)

Konica Minolta C352 and HP DesignJet T610 both got x64 bit drivers, so loading those shouldn't be a problem.

If configure the SBS 2008 as a printer server, you can load x32 bit driver as well, so user dont have look else where.

to load x32 bit driver, right-click in the printer folder, server properties, driver tab add driver x86, then browse to dowloaded x32 bit driver and load driver.

then on x32 bit client PC, just double-click on the printer, the driver will be loaded.

commercial emails from big guys

I now get one email each day from HP. \

now I am gettings two emails from MS telling how good their office 2010 is...

treesize Free to show folder sizes, windows 7 supported

I used to use spacemonger to identify folder sizes, it works in xp, windows 2003.

to show foler size in windows 7, use Treesize Free

getting used to Windows 7 big icons, change to windows XP classic

http://www.blogger.com/post-create.g?blogID=2012709797160211726

you can press CTRL + mouse-wheel

or right - click on the desktop , click personalize ... scroll down to basic and high contrast ... click windows classic

sending large emails in exchange 2003

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322679

and

http://www.petri.co.il/forums/showthread.php?t=25580

notice the 2 hr cache issue.

shutdown virtual machines from a PC with APC agent

http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=880366&page=1

START "" shutdown -s -m -f file://myoophmpdc/ -t 2

configure TZ 200 sonicwall - use wizards to configure just like EBS/SBS of MS

TZ 170 is slow handling 25 users.

now TZ 200 is used instead.

well, the problem with it is not new. manually doing it is Not working for incoming connections.

the proper way to setup is to
1. add network objects
2. add services
3. group objects
4. run wizards    (especially the Public server wizards)

the most important thing is now RUN Wizards ... this way will auto-populate some NAT rules which are not present in manually configuring simply firewall rules like lan-wan, wan-lan
Public Server Configuration Summary








Please review the settings below and click "Apply" to create the new objects listed below.



Server Address Objects

1. Create 'SonicwallTZ200mgmt Private' assigned to LAN Zone for Host 192.168.1.1.

2. Reuse 'WAN Primary IP' address object assigned to WAN Zone for 2xx.xxx.xx.xx.



Server Service Group Object

1. Create 'SonicwallTZ200mgmt Services' with HTTPS Management Service.



Server NAT Policies

1. Create Inbound Server NAT Policy to rewrite packets to original destination 'WAN Primary IP' to translated destination 'SonicwallTZ200mgmt Private'.

2. Create Outbound Server NAT Policy to rewrite packets from 'SonicwallTZ200mgmt Private' to translated source 'WAN Primary IP'.

3. Create Loopback NAT Policy to allow access from all internal zones to the server at public IP address 2xx.xxx.xx.xx.



Server Access Rules

1. WAN > LAN - Allow 'Any' to 'WAN Primary IP' for Service Group 'SonicwallTZ200mgmt Services'.

Similar rules will be created from all lower security zones to the LAN zone.



To apply these settings, click Apply.

enable netbios over tcp/ip on a windows 2003 domain controller

http://www.eventid.net/display.asp?eventid=4311&eventno=910&source=NetBT&phase=1

http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-1458763.php

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357


dcdiag and netdiag fail,

file:/// give me permission error
cannot access sysvol and netlogon permission error

dcdiag shows
Failed can not test for HOST SPN


Failed can not test for HOST SPN

* Missing SPN null)

* Missing SPN null)

dhcp client service not working, saying a file not found, dig deep all files are there

ipconfig/all shows netbios disabled, I tried various things, no luck to renable it.

ipconfig /registerdns got error rpc not avialable

remove kaseya agent

remove n-able agent

I have tried netsh winsock reset catalog ... no luck

I should try netsh int ip reset all



eventually netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt did the magic for me.

yeah, I recover a domain controller (PDC) even if there is still errors in AD systemstate (NTBACKUP fail)

the problem with the netbt is that sysvol, netlogon not available, it wont authenticate users, hence exchange users' owa wont work, funny exmerge works.

maybe I should have tried
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315457

well, by the time I recovered the whole thing. a new windows 2008 + exchange 2010 systems already be built. it is still good to get something out of it.

Windows Server 2008 System Requirements - once again

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/cc196364.aspx

Processor • Minimum: 1GHz (x86 processor) or 1.4GHz (x64 processor)


• Recommended: 2GHz or faster

Note: An Intel Itanium 2 processor is required for Windows Server 2008 for Itanium-Based Systems

Memory • Minimum: 512MB RAM

• Recommended: 2GB RAM or greater

• Maximum (32-bit systems): 4GB (Standard) or 64GB (Enterprise and Datacenter)

• Maximum (64-bit systems): 32GB (Standard) or 2TB (Enterprise, Datacenter and Itanium-Based Systems)

Available Disk Space • Minimum: 10GB

• Recommended: 40GB or greater

Note: Computers with more than 16GB of RAM will require more disk space for paging, hibernation, and dump files

Drive DVD-ROM drive

Display and Peripherals • Super VGA (800 x 600) or higher-resolution monitor

RSAT - installation failed

failed to register the bitLocker Recovery password viewer. You do not have permissions to perform this registration. Enterprise admin rights are required.

enable netbios over tcp/ip

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverhyperv/thread/f3a909c8-04e8-485d-894c-3f92683c0fd7

well, I tried this trick, but its not working for the recovery of a PDC

Install the Application Server Role on Your Server - windows 2008 R2

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc754684.aspx

assign admin roles to a user in exchange 2010 organization

well, there isn't a exchange delegation wizard, in exchange 2010, didn't see that.

It is all RBAC now.

goto http://servername/ecp to assign roles or additional roles to the stardom. you double click on a role group, something will pop up, and your add someone to the group.

it seems many tools in exchange 2010 are web-based, like mail-tracking,...

MSP managed service trial ... what a bad start ..or what a couple of bad start ...

yeah n-able vs kaseya .... I didn't do the actual trial. But I did see something in the test eviroment.

with n-able agent installed, one server's cpu usage shoot to 100%.

after an un-install failure of kaseya agent, another server totally stuffed.

How to Reset the Root Password for a XenServer Host

http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX116019

display driver , ... VGA for HP ML 110 G6

Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:39 p.m.] -- Automatically generated message:


Your support request has been received and has been queued. We are working on your problem and will contact you within approximately five minutes during business hours, (Monday-Friday, between 8am and 5pm local time).







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:39 p.m.] -- Automatically generated message:

A Support specialist, AgentA n has been assigned to your case.







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:40 p.m.] -- Automatically generated message:

Your support request has been received and has been queued. We are working on your problem and will contact you within approximately five minutes during business hours, (Monday-Friday, between 8am and 5pm local time).







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:40 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

hello



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:41 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Hello Mike.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:41 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Thank you for contacting HP and for your interest in our Active Chat online support. My name is AgentA and I see you have a question regarding your HP Server. I'm going to take a few moments to review your information and will message you back very soon.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:41 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

hi I had a problem with the new install of SBS 2008 on HP ML 110 G6.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:42 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

basically the video card is in vga mode? or it supposed to be so?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:42 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

there is an unknown device in the device manager. how do I install driver for it?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:42 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

I will check for this information.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:43 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

thanks



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:47 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

You are Welcome. I will need 5 more minutes of your time.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:47 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

that's ok



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:50 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Thank You for your patience.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:50 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Let us refer this document for this issue.



Advisory: ProLiant ML110 G6 and ProLiant DL120 G6 Servers - Yellow Bang May Display in Device Manager When Installing Windows Server 2008 R2 From the Easy Set-Up CD Version 2.0

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c01986512&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN





[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:52 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:53 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I give it a go now



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 2:54 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Sure. I will stay online.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:04 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

hi I am download the the lastest east-setup.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:04 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I think I already installed the intel chipset drivers



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

anyway, I will give the new CD a go once downloaded.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Ok.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

we dont have to wait online now.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Please stay online.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I will try again later



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, that's fine



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:05 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

I will give one more advisory for this issue.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:06 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:07 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

When we install Windows 2008 using the Easy setup CDs, we will also take care that the boot partition size does not exceed 528 GB.



Advisory: ProLiant Servers - Boot Partitions Sizes Greater Than 528 GB Cannot Be Created for Windows Server 2008 Using the SmartStart or Easy Setup CDs

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&objectID=c02024463





[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:09 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, thx for that. the server we had is only about 250GB.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:11 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Then there is no cause for concern with this server.



We will be able to check for the server once the Easy Setup CD 2.2 and the chipset drivers are installed.





[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:13 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Shall I place this session on hold so that we take up the issue if it persists.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 3:18 p.m.] -- AgentA n says:

Mike, I will put this chat incident in a holding queue and the next available agent will assist you when you come back.



You are requested to save this venue in your favorites to make it easier to get back to this venue.



Please make a note of the SR ID number 3672680 and you may make a note of the troubleshooting steps also if you wish to, for future reference.





[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:02 p.m.] -- Automatically generated message:

Your support request has been received and has been queued. We are working on your problem and will contact you within approximately five minutes during business hours, (Monday-Friday, between 8am and 5pm local time).







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:02 p.m.] -- Automatically generated message:

A Support specialist, AgentB R has been assigned to your case.







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:02 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

hello



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:02 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Hello Mike, thank you for contacting HP ISS Active Chat Support. My name is AgentB. Please give me 2 min to go through your information. Thank you.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:03 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:06 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

I did not understand question, could you please let me know what is the information you are looking for?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:07 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, the question is that I installed the SBS 2008 from DVD. now the display is in VGA mode.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:07 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Ok.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:08 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I chatted with a support guy hours ago, he said download easy cd 2.2



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:08 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

now I finish the download, burned ISO to CD, and put the CD into the server dvd rom. so how do I update the video driver?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:09 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

SR ID number 3672680



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:10 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

I am checking the information.







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:10 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

thanks



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:11 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

I would like to have some more informaiton to proceed further



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:11 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, fine



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:11 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Have you completed the OS installation or you are starting the OS installaiton now?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:12 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I completed OS installation using easy CD 2.0



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:13 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Great, so now just wnats to install the video driver.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:13 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

is that right?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:15 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

yes, because it is now in VGA mode.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:16 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

You mean to say that it is in 640 x 480 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16 resolution, is that right?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:18 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

it is actually in 1024*768 in 32 bit mode. in device manager it says standard VGA graphics adapter. it will be good if we can update it,



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:22 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

May I have the screenshot of device manager and resolution page?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:22 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

send it ot AgentB@hp.com



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:22 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, fine



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:23 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Thanks.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:23 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

I will do it now.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:29 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

ok, I have sent screen shots to you.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:29 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Got it, checking.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:31 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Thank you for the screenshots.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:33 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Mike, i have checked the screenshots, and there is no issue with the display or display driver.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:33 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

This server is shipped with ServerEngines Video controller on the PCIe bus to provide system video requirement. This device has both CRT display and supports DDR2 memory. It will have 64MB (8M utilize for SE) 533 MHz of video memory on motherboard. The ServerEngines video BIOS is located in the system ROM



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:34 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Following are the Graphic resolutions supported with this card:

1600 x 1200 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16

1152 x 864 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16

1280 x 1024 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16

1024 x 768 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16

800 x 600 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16

640 x 480 16.7M, 64k, 256, 16







[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:35 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

And, operating system has the inbuilt drivers for this card.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:35 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

that's fine, as long as that VGA thing is expected.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:35 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

fine, learned something today.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:35 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

many thx for the help.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:36 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

you have a good night. I am off now.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:36 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

It is my pleasure, Is there anything else I may assist you?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:37 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

have a nice evening.



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:37 p.m.] -- AgentB R says:

Is there anything else I may assist you?



[Thursday, 18 March 2010 5:41 p.m.] -- Man In Black says:

no thx

shadow protect cannot send test email...

shadowprotect test email com+ required not installed

http://www.storagecraft.com/kb/questions.php?questionid=197

in windows 2008 x64 I changed COM+ start as delayed start. still no luck.

oh no, I typed the smtp server name wrong...

fix SBS 2008 sharepoint 3.0

its quite painfull.

during install, things not went well as I saw a msg asking for username/password.

then I found out the SBS console can't detect internal website.

then I started messing up WSS3.0 website. initially I can see the admin site, but can't see the companyweb http 404 error.

eventually all disappeared on me. re-run sharepoint configuration wizard getting no where. the error is an upgrade is already in place. eventually I stuffed the admin site like cannot connect to the database.
http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2009/05/06/companyweb-inaccessible-after-sharepoint-3-0-service-pack-2.aspx

this cmd is userful to get going: psconfig -cmd upgrade -inplace b2b -force

then I got my admin site back, but companyweb still blank.. or gave me a default II7 website.

now I need re-create the companyweb, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd560621(WS.10).aspx

here is the highlight

To clean up the existing settings


Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration.



On the User Account Control page, click Continue.



Click Application Management.



In SharePoint Web Application Management, click Delete Web application.



On the Delete Web Application page, in Delete content databases, click Yes.



In Delete IIS Web sites, click Yes.



Click Delete.



Do not close the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration tool.


In the SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration tool, click Application Management, and then, in SharePoint Web Application Management, click Create or extend Web application.




Click Create a new Web application.



In IIS Web Site, enter the following settings:



Click Create a new IIS web site, and then in Description, type SBS SharePoint.



In Port, type 987.



In Host Header, type sites.



In Path, type C:\Program Files\Windows Small Business Server\Bin\webapp\InternalWebSite.



In Security Configuration, click the following settings:



For Authentication provider, click NTLM.



For Allow Anonymous, click No.



For Use SSL, click Yes.



For Load Balanced URL, verify that the settings are as follows:



In URL, the setting should be https://sites:987. If this is the setting, do not modify it. If it is not, clear the field, and then type https://sites:987.



In Zone, the setting should be Default.


Set the binding information by doing the following:




Click Start, click Administrative Tools, and then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.



On the User Account Control page, click Continue.



In Connections, expand the server tree, and then click Sites.



Click SBS SharePoint, and then, in Actions, click Bindings.



On the Site Bindings dialog, click Add.



In the Edit Site Binding dialog, enter the following settings:



In Type, click http.



In IP address, click All Unassigned.



In Port, type 80.



In Host name, type Companyweb.



Click OK, and then click Close.



there is also a article about sbs wss3 database security ... need manually open it to check read-only fasle.

another hint is that SBS WSS seemed tied to one administrator. if you login as another admin you may get a security permission error.

what a drama...

Kaseya vs. N-able : Story or No Story?

http://www.mspmentor.net/2009/12/10/kaseya-vs-n-able-in-australia-story-or-no-story/

well, MSP now entered local SMB market. the manager did an online trial of Kaseya and N-able.

Kaseya is a high flier, with a polished interface.

N-able is more targeted towards the SMB market.

he finally decided to go with N-able starting selling 250 nodes.

an acer PC can't access CDROM and USb thumb drives

an acer PC, can read cdrom in safe mode. but can't in normal mode.

tried to put reg stttings back, no luck. check for group policy .. not found. wonder something corrupted, instead of spending endless time doing that..

advise to reload the acer from scratch

no acer recovery cd ... here is the instruction for initiliate the recovery from an acer tech, maybe for a different model

1 Ensure all Personal Data is backed-up as all data will be deleted.


2 Close all programs & applications in windows

3 Press Alt & F10 Simultaneously

4 If prompted create a personal password & continue

5 Left click RESTORE located at the bottom of the Acer eRecovery Management utility

6 Left click RESTORE SYSTEM TO FACTORY DEFAULT

7 Enter your user defined password & press ENTER

8 An option will appear either left click YES to start the eRecovery or NO to cancel

9 Left click NEXT to continue

10 Unit will start the eRecovery in 1 min
 
 
 

it's virus time again -- total security

a user opened a facebook email, now he got the total security pop-up, malware anti-spyware won't run. i can't re-install it by renaming it.

lucily MS security essentials got an upper hand, and contained it.

group policy user policy and preferences

user policy will disappear when the user logs off. But the user preferences will stay on.

group policy which takes precedence? computer settings or user

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc785665(WS.10).aspx

the word is

The Group Policy objects (GPOs) that apply to a user (or computer) do not all have the same precedence. Settings that are applied later can override settings that are applied earlier.

so the user settings can over-ride the computer settings at the same level because the computer policy applied first.

what ya did didn't fix the problem

what ya did didn't fix the problem ... first ... phone hang up without any reason ....
then did a remote patch of a client PC , and they said the CAD PC as slow as before.

I always suspected those slowness problem at that d0emed site was due to a cabling problem. they use phone patch panel instead of data patch panel.

this could give rise to funny problems like excel sadden hung-up.

Windows server backup wont backup exchange 2007

in the good old days, NTbackup can backup exchange 2003 to a monolithic file.

but, in windows 2008, the builtin windows server backup can't do that anymore.

date/clock not right and certificate problem on the HP ML 100 G6

not quite sure why the date/clock went back to 1987, hence the certificate xpired in 1989.

the clock reset may be due to the smartcd being run.

anyway, I have to get clock corret. the do my favorite

net time /querysntp

by default, it will be time.windows.com

net time /setsntp: localsntpserver

then in certificate authority, generate a new one.

however, the proper way to do this, is to run fix network wizard, the wizard will detect expired certs, and put things right.

update HP ML110 G6 Bios, and trying to update the firmware on IBM x3250

download the bios update from HP site, run the setup file, it will create a bootable USB key drive. gone the days of using a bootable cd. I couldn't find my 256MB HP usb key drive at the time, so I used my 4GB rundisk thumb drive. well it will wipe it and format it as new bootable drive.
it will rename the USB key as ROMPAQ. plug in the key to the system, upon reboot, the system will update from the USB drive. of course don't yank the power cable off the PC server in the process.

compared with the IBM x3250, the x3250 firmware seems like a xml file. I haven't got time to figure out how to using it. yeah, the bios is not the traditional one, its called uefi, or uEFI, UEFI whatever the fancy name.


here is the filelist ROMPAQ,

Volume in drive X is ROMPAQ


Volume Serial Number is 06F8-E6D9



Directory of X:\



12/03/2010 03:13 108 AUTOEXEC.BAT

12/03/2010 03:13 66,785 COMMAND.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 24,810 IBMBIO.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 30,880 IBMDOS.COM

12/03/2010 03:13 13,671 ldlinux.sys

23/02/2010 13:54 1,397,603 CPQO2702.43A

23/02/2010 13:54 29,288 CPQSRVR2.CPU

12/03/2010 03:13 512 fat32lba.bss

12/03/2010 03:13 45,341 kernel.sys

28/04/2009 10:09 1,246 Readme.txt

23/02/2010 13:54 105,463 ROMPAQ.EXE

12/03/2010 03:13 79 syslinux.cfg

14/03/2010 10:26 0 files.txt

13 File(s) 1,715,786 bytes



Total Files Listed:

13 File(s) 1,715,786 bytes

0 Dir(s) 4,096,057,344 bytes free 
 
 
here is the contente of the autoexec.bat file
 
X:\>type AUTOEXEC.BAT


@echo off

echo ROMPAQ may take a few minutes to get started. Please be patient...

rompaq.exe /l:us /!
 
 
IBMBIO, IBMDOS looks like familiar? that makes me feel I were going back in time back in 1986.
 
interestingly, HP put a linux touch on this update package.

MS EBS and SBS 2008 server

never do things via the old w2003 MMC console. do everything from EBS/SBS mgmt console (ie using wizards)

Xen 5.5 and IBM x3250 M3

installed xen 5.5 on x3250 M3, initially it hesitated to detect the raid controller. eventually it installed.

the drama unfolded when I tried to restore the image to the Xen box.

shadow Protect IT Q1 2010 just can't start the VM.

so I tried a SP 3.5.1 CD, it wont start in 2003 lagcy mode, but it started in vista mode.

then there is a problem with networking. the static IP won't work, so I have to turn on the DHCP server.

anyway there is a Xen Server 5.5 update 2. maybe I need use that for a start

HP ML110 G6 SBS 2008 reload

the domain name is Not correct for some reason, it looks like mypdc.mypdc.myoooph.local for whatever reason.

now I need re-load the whole thing.

I put in HP utils cd, reset all drives, and I have re-install all from scratch from CD/DVD media.

I couldn't find SBS 2008 HP brand in the list during the process, so I choose the generic one.

the problem is the network driver couldn't be found, luckily it find in the CD. But other drivers can't be installed that way.

tricky IBM x3250 mounting kits

yeah I should read TFM. But the IBM mounting kits still seemed overly complex.

install a smallbiz server 2008 on HP ML110 G6

this SBS 2008 server is pre-loaded. off course various wizard need to be run.

it takes more than two hours.

it depreciate the user administrator as an admin user name.

also it doesn't like myooph.local as the internal domain name because you only type myooph as the domain name. everything else is appended.

at one stage it asked to be connected to the internet. otherwise I can't click the ---> button.

at the end of the day, it takes bit long to shutdown as well. this is typical of smallbiz servers like v2003

what a drama.

sonciwall device and syslogs

a TZ 180 device with 2 syslog PCs linked, it seemed fine.

HYPER-V R2 continued

my default hyper-v installation used about 7.2GB disk space.

hyper-V manager in my windows 2008 and windows 7 need be manually enabled in control panel - program features.

pity I didn't see via the hyper-v manager or the HYPER-V console, how big my hard drive is, how much is my memory...

however from the command line, systeminfo still works in the hyper-v console

well, I am told to go back to Xen 5.5.

I jsut pray Citrix will keep Xen Server alive.

install Sonicwall 6.0 UTM viewpoint

when I installed version 4.1, I have to un-install it and re-install it after the PC ip address change.

this time, things may be different, but I un-installed anbd re-innstalled anyway.

convert a physical machine to a virtual hard drive

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx

its a sysinternals program

Hyper-V R2 standalone disc - first impression

installed hyper-V R2 DVD on an IBM x3250 M3, it took a couple of hours.

by defaulty it is in workgroup mode. I need run the menu  to enable remote management.

then I cant seem to manage the the hyper-v machine because my Windows 2008 R2 is in the domain.

so I joined the hyper-v machine to the domain, then enabled the hyper-v manager in the W2008 control panel - program features.

also I need to do the same in Windows 7 to enable hyper-v manager access to the host.

IBM x3250 M3 and wrong upgrade memory

dsitributor send us wrong memory upgrade kit specified in IBM Tools (?).

the result is the server won't boot into loading windows/setup program... it will stuck with uefi ...starting

with pre-installed 2GB it is all fine.

when thos upgrade ram installed separately, the boot process stuck at uefi starting, and orange led ! is on

PPTP jungle

when you do pptp in a private subnet, you can't connect to yourself.

interesting is that worked last week when I was working on a vista PC. the pptp server is a windows xp pro, surprisingly I can pptp back.

But at another location, pptp started verifying u/p, eventually fail. probably because there is a sonicwall at this site.

outlookanywhere outlook 2010 beta or outlook 2003/2007, does it matter?

quite tricky for me, when I put another test domain on my test box.

outlook20033/outlook2007 threw me an error "The name cannot be matched to a name in the address list".

But in outlook 2010 beta, I can configure outlook anywhere. it seemed working.

second round of Microsoft Audit

second round of Microsoft Audit ....

last time, I did the audit for this client back in 2006.

now they received letter from Microsoft agent that there going to be another one.

I doubt there is much juice in this case as this client buying office licenses and windows license religiously.

luckily they didn't do any server upgrade for years.

Hyper-V R2

yeah, I downloaded MS Hyper-V R2, and burnt into DVD.

it is a standalone product, and it support live migration?  compared with Xen, it is huge in size. Xen only needs one CD.

given some not too old IBM servers, only has CDROM, not DVD-ROM

access a linux hard drive with bad clusters

boot from ubuntu-9.10 desktop CD

need reset su password

sudo passwd root

http://googlethem.com/ubuntu-live-cd-root-password-and-live-session-password-for-user-ubuntu/

then run # fsck.ext3 /dev/sda2

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-boot-ubuntu-linux-rescue-mode/

then mount /dev/media/home (? or something like that)

then plug in a USB drive, cp -r . /dev/media/MKS40GK/ (something like that)

my notebook wont start after hibernation

push the power button, nothing on the screen. some led lights are flashing though.

pull the battery out, start up again. seems fine.

put battery back.

telecom ADSL router forwarding

this particular router forwarding by mac address in the subnet. I can't specify pinholes by IP address for some reason. I have to find out the MAC address of the server NIC.

continue to kill virus in the afternoon anti virus vista 2010

avast! pro failed to stop/kill the trojan. av.exe

used microsoft security essentials to remove it, well after the removal, I can't run exe files.

that needs a registry fix.

http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/virus-removal/remove-antivirus-vista-2010

get the registry fix file, and merge it.

other tricks: rename regedit.exe to regedit.com, use command.com, then run cmd

anyway, the reg file is critical,

ATF - Cleaner and Ccleaner

ccleaner can only clean cuurent user profile?

ATF can clean all users profile ... it seems it only has XP version?

personal security trojan or pest

windows XP PC with SP3, SAV 9.

the internet got cut every time and then. there was a warning on the screen demanding money.

unabled to download some security tools from internet.

so have to copy my tools from my usb Key drive

use msconfig to disable a couple of funny items in the startup list.

run malwarebyte anti-spyware, scan trojan detected win32extension.dll

prepare windows EBS server installation

EBS is like a huge SBS server.

you need to run pre-installation preparation wizard on another pc. you need install EBS server in 30 days after you run that wizard.

yer, that is like SBS 2008 which everything is done under wizard.

I would really like to install all those boll0cks manually. it looks like the free wheeling days are gone.

symantec endPoint protection 11.0.5

symantec corp anti-virus v.10.x is too old for vista and Windows 7.

install SEP 11.0.5 server, download a couple of CDs.

unzipped it, and installed it.

IIS need be installed first, then the rest should be click on next

windows EBS server

1. management 2008 + SCE 2007 + Sharepoint 3.0

2. messaging 2008 + exchange 2007 + ForeFront for exchange 1 year license

3. security 2008, F.F + TMG + exch 2007 edge

preium 1* w2008
priuem 1* SQL 2008

12 * server mgmt licenses + 3 * server mgmt (premium) --- those for SCE

CALs max 300

what to do when file server got bad clusters

once bad clusters found in the server, it is better login as the admin user, and copy everything off the server.

as once the server turned off, it may never start up again.

linux smb share

linux smb share, when copy all files in the share, it is better login as root user, otherwise some users files wouldn't be copied, no warning given...
then there is a kernel panic ... go figure...

http://intranet redirect to http://www.aciworldwide.com/

dns issues

corrupted Excel 2007 file

a user opened a excel 2007, freezing. re-opened it, started recovery, excel said recovery failed because its corrupted.

then the file's status shows it is repiared. going in a circle.

I ended up disabling power saving, installed Office 2007 SP2.

Mdamon disabled users

the default behavior is to bounce the the disabled user emails. this seemed different from exchange server

cannot print screen, print error on a local financial package

Kerry's printer wont print over the network, or print some pages in their financial software.

checked the log, it seems the printer had a driver update in the morning.

delete the network shared printer and restart the notebook, it can print in that software now.

I wonder there is something inside that software handle print as well.