IE8 problem with exchange 2003 OWA

when replying to email messages, I see a x in the body.

a google search lead to

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/911829/

but this w7 ie8 can see SBS2008 OWA properly.

Windows 7 PPTP connection problem with Windows 2003 server

Windows 7 PPTP connection problem with Windows 2003 server. I had pptp connection problem from time to time. All very dreadful. now my windows xp pptp works great. But windows 7 pptp failed. the bizzare thing is that W7 pptp to that windows 2003 ras server was working last night.

temp drive for installing windows 2003 updates

temp drive for installing windows 2003 updates... it occurred to me, windows 2003 ( windows xp) may use the bigger drive (free space) attached to the system when it comes to windows updates. it will use the drive even if it is a USB drive.

outlook 2007 crashing Windows XP PC

it had a sudden crash in outlook 2007. then the PC really slow, then the PC complained about the information store, a quick google search indicated a problem with windows search serivce. update the windows search service to v4. it feels much better.

setup Mac OS X PPTP to Windows 2003 RAS server

setup Mac OS X PPTP to Windows 2003 RAS server... not sure which version of Mac, not too old, not too new. open the help file, point me to the right direction how to create a VPN connection. create a VPN conection, put in username/password.. bang... its in.

configure telecom blackberry with customer's sbs2008 server

just configure following the wizard just fine. however with one of the the blackberrys, the wizard complained that an email address is already configured, and the user forgot the username/password, called telecom about this problem, waited 30 minutes, no luck.

looked at the email settings after the wizard, the email address is actually an owa address, funny bis only pass email, not contacts/calendars. this should be much easier without a BES server.

Shadow Protect and fileserver file restore

it is quite handy to restore files using shadow protect (storagecraft). especially the drives are backed up continuous incremental.

server 2003 terminal printing with HP Laserjet 2100

LPT port attached to the HP LJ 2100 on a w98R2 PC. install drive HL LJ 4. works fine. terminal server printing fine.

copy 50GB data to usb drive

90 minutes. the nb sized drive is attached to a x225 server. data is copied over the network. the files are in 2GB chunks.

Iphone; eee PC pptp VPN and Windows 2003

Ihaving failed to get iphone connecting with a windows 2003 server last year, I thought it was because Iphone V1, not everything supposed to work.
now I got a chance to connect eee pc to Windows 2003 RAS server. it failed with a bit more info like TLS-auth.

PPTP VPN started working after TLS-auth was turned off on Windows 2003 RAS server.

DSL-504T ADSL router

in a rural site, dlink DSL-504T keeps dropping connection. it is very hot. put it sideways to cool it down. yet to see whether this fixed it or not.

USB copying speed

copy 28GB data from a USB disc to a Windows 2003 hard drive. that takes about 75minutes. what a pain.

a note on Centos, Fedora Core, and Red Hat from a 3rd' party

I had a chance to revive a user's RH 3 server box. But the hard drives are worn. So a new box has to be provisioned. in the process the linux apps guy commented Fedora is good for development, centos is good for production if you don't want to buy RH. at which time a disruption at centos erupted, and caused a shock in the linux community, you can still view the open letter at http://www.centos.org/

exchange 2003 on windows 2003 PDC

exchange 2003 on windows 2003 PDC; restarting is still awful slow

personal anti-virus and MalwareByte's anti-spyware & AVG FE

a personal anti-virus fake Av program found on a client's win-xp home pc. pav.exe, uac*.dll uac*.sys files found on the infected PC. boot from a bootable pc, delete those dlls and the sys. install malwarebyte's AS by renaming it as something else. run malware scan again and again, also update windows. finally the trojan disappeared. in the process, AVG did stop two dll running.

marketscore.relevantknowdge, malwarebyte's anti & super-antispyware

after a shocking discover of the marketscore in the W7 PC a while ago, I run MalwareByte's program today. But the malwarebyte's program crashed in the middle and reported marketscore found.; run again the same problem. But SuperAntiSpyware didn't find anything suspious.

grant send as permission in exchange 2003

grant send as permission in exchange 2003. in ADUC, enable advanced view, d-click on the user --- security--- advance --- add someone tick send as --- only this object.... it may take a while before you can test (or you restart information store service).

systeminfo

systeminfo cmd is quite usefull to display windows xp/2003/vista installation date. in vista it can show boot time.

configure exchange 2007 to allow relay from certain hosts

configure exchange 2007 to allow relay from certain hosts. in the server hub-transport, create a new receive-connector, put sending hosts IP in, tick sending-server auth-itself, and tick exchange server in the other pane.

move virtualized centos 5.3

a XenServer-virtualized centos 5.3 was ported into another Xen Server 5.0. however the network is not working properly. it has a similar probelm to a virtualized windows like an ip address is used by another nic.
the workaround is to delete all the nics, and re-created a new nic.

annoying chirps from a HP CPQ 9420

disconnecting the keyboard, the noise disappear. replace with a new keyboard, the left CTRL-key still not working. blody hell, wot a waste.

install SBS 2008 in advanced mode

yeah, install SBS 2008 in default mode ending up a domain like mydome.local.

to get an mydome.com, install sbs 2008 in advanced mode. that involves using a utility s/w to create an answer file. then stick the USB pen drive into the server, and boot from SBS 2008 DVD.

alas. sbs 2008 is like a mine field.

Juniper as a second language

a quite interesting link for CCNA

http://www.juniper.net/us/en/training/elearning/jsl.html