WD ELEMENTS 640 external hard drive

my otherwise good friday got ruined by WD elements 640 external hard drive.

plug into IBM x226 drive, the whole thing appears sluggish....

two drive letter appeared for this one. my co-work told me its WD new feature .... something like virual drive...

ohhhhhhhhh, kiss the llloooooooooooooooooooppppppppppppppp

this drive caused the x226 failed to boot.

attached this to an IBM x205 server, it seems fine.

I had pleasant experience with other models of external WD drive. now i am told those good ones are gone. only fancy ones here to chip me offfff


in my memory MY book is the one worked for me before ... as for the external elements ... dont really go to clinc with those things

install wsus 3.0 sp2 for use with n-able

I can't install wsus 3.0 on a standalone server with a standalone sql server, they should be domain-joined to be inter-operate.

shooot, so I have to use windows internal db.

another thing wsus 3.0 sp2 means wsus 3.0 with sp2.

IBM director 5.2 and N-able

for this org, I had removed IBM director 5.2. then deployed n-Able (Ncentral 7.0).

now I can just log onto the Ncentral to view the servers' health.

with IBM director 5.2, the capacity manager is not free. also the whole structure is tied to the AD domain. if you get many customers ie, heaps of independent forests, be it large or small... you can't vew things via one console / interface. its the same for the MS system centre, its tied to forest.

hence the markets are born for Kaseya, n-Able and many others . ... MSP ..

windows 7 easy transfer error There isn't enough room ...

there isn't enough room ...

well, there is a D drive in the old xp pc, the the D drive in the new on is a recovery partition, so there isn't enough room, manually tweak it to bypass this problem.

when transfer the profile over, it failed to handle the one situation where a user was re-name before. hence pst file not being copied, email account need manually setup again.

pop.gmail.com

well what's cathy's password in the outlook 2000? a little program mailpv.exe showed me the correct one.

where is the .nk2 location in windows 7 + outlook 2007 ... its under users\cathy\appdata\localroaming
the pst file is under users\cathy\appdata\local

n-able remote control -- port 22 still needed

after failing to connect for hours, I had to enable port 22 outgoing, then I can remotely log onto target server.

if outgoing blocked, you will see un-able to establish ssh tunnel. funny I couldn't see logs in the sonicwall tz-180.

deploy n-able probe

from n-central,create a new customer, select deploy to windows servers or client pcs/

then install the probe in a server on the csutomer's domain network.

this probe will auto-deploy agents to other servers.

it needs .net 2.0

attempt to recover a synology DS107e drive

the user said he couldn't access his DS107e drive.

I downloaded the synology assistant, it reported that the device hasn't got firmware.

so I downloaded the firmware, it warned me about wiping the data. but the user wanted the data.

pull out the hard drive from the enclosure. did a brief seagate tools test, it indicated the drive physically seemed fine. I think its quite hot tho.

... sigh ... use a toll called  explorer2fs, no luck

on a windows 2008 PC with sata cable attached, those 2fs tool can't find the drive, windows diskmgmt can't find either.

try a windows 2003 PC with a USB enclosure, the diskmgmt see the drive as unknown, but those 2fs tools can't find anything...

symantec 11.0.6 is out

the previous version is of course 11.0.5.

the new SEP is supposed to support Windows 7 as well.

N-able N-central ports

internet incoming
22
80
443
10000
25

excel 2010 can save as pdf file, I need pdf convert to jpeg

office_convert_pdf_to_jpg_jpeg_tiff_free

this utils software saved the day

光纤跳线图例说明 -- stole from somewhere

光纤跳线图例说明


类型：单模光纤跳线 单位：条


型号

型号

光纤跳线图例说明

单模按型号分为：LC－CL、LC－ST、LC－SC、LC－FC、SC－SC、SC－FC、SC－ST、ST－ST、ST－FC

多模按型号分为：LC－CL、LC－ST、LC－SC、LC－FC、SC－SC、SC－FC、SC－ST、ST－ST、ST－FC、LC－MTRJ、ST－MTRJ。

光纤跳线按大类分为两部分：单模和多模，单模规格为9/125,多模规格为50/125、62.5/125

目前涉及到的光纤型号如下：

ST-MTRJ

SC-FC

SC-ST

ST-ST

ST-FC

LC-MTRJ

LC-FC

SC-SC

图例

LC-LC

LC-ST

LC-SC

RJ45-BNC

LC-ST

LC-SC

SC-FC

类型：多模光纤跳线 单位：对

LC-FC

ST-FC

图例

LC-LC

SC-ST

ST-ST

SC-SC

SBS 2008 very slow to log on "applying computer settings"

SBS 2008 Issue “Applying Computer Settings” message

http://achugh.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/more-on-sbs-2008-issue-applying-computer-settings-message/

your friend disabled IPV6 in sbs 2008. that caused the sbs 2008 slow to start. what is more is that the exchange serivce wont start properly even if triggered manually.

It took someone's SBS 2008 1 hour 45 minutes to start short of exchange services.

after the IPV6 being added back to the nic, it took about 14 minutes.

funky, sbs 2k8 doesn't use windows smtp service, it has its own exchange transport...

that ipv6 was disabled about 7 months ago, the server wasn't being rebooted.

restore a shadow protect image

restore to a new  pc, the new pc boots windows xp properly

win-xp ask for re-activate again.

after all the updates, the user can't logon to the PC. move this PC out of domain, then re-join to the domain. reset the the computer account in the dsa.msc in the meantime.

load another HP ML 100 G6

the drama started that I couldn't configure Raid in the system bios. alas, a quick phone call to the supplier, I am told to update the firmware. that I did, then another problem, the HP easycd 2.2 can't load properly, this time no more phone calles, just download 667MB HP easycd2.3.

Now I can load SBS 2008

how long a SBS 2008 netbios name can be?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909264

15 chars

HP mini W7 pro install

open up the package, power up the mini.

it took about 1 hour 19 minutes before I can logon.

yes, there are heaps scripts running.

after that, I saw corel office pre-loaded.

off course that dreaded wmi hi cpu usage problem still there.

disable HPWMIex seems makes thing better

upgrade HP nx7400 memory

upgrade HP nx7400 memory to 4GB.

there is one socket at the back ... this is easy.

there is another socket under the keyboard. un-do two screws at the back, then push some latches on the front side of the keyboard. remove the keyboard. you will see the memory.

net start service in cmd line

http://www.windowsitpro.com/article/registry2/how-can-i-stop-and-start-services-from-the-command-line-.aspx

net start service

like


SQL Server "lazyboy PCBB"

pop3 for SBS 2008 continued ...

http://blogs.technet.com/sbs/archive/2008/09/19/how-to-configure-sbs-2008-to-host-pop3-imap4.aspx

well, not enuff, to just start exchange pop3 service.

by default it uses s-pop3 port 995

configure Sony Erricssion saito (uar1?) phone for SBS 2008

pop3 wont work straight away, keeps asking for passwords. POP3 may default to TLS/SSL. made a quick phone call to local sony support. the guy said its better to use RoadSync.

with the help of the phone user, start roadsync in apps (maybe in organizer), follow the wizard, activate it.
its fine. but after two hours, no new messages, change auto-sync to manual, saddenly another 30 msgs came in. manually doing updates, the screen showed it keeps doing updates....what a day...the user is extremely disappointed ...

I am disappointed too, the phone itself is so hard to navigate.

btw, sync mail is sony's own mail stuff.

disable blackberry desktop manager auto-update and auto-startup

in windows xp, add/remove programs, choose blackberry desktop manager, click change, going through the process, un-tick startup and auto-update.

HP mini 50% ~ 100% CPU usage, wmiPrvSe

external mouse not working in Outlook 2007, word wont start, many bizarre things because of the wmiPRVSe is using 50% ~ 100% CPU on the HP mini netbook running w7 pro.

start the process of elimination, disable those non-MS services one by one, eventually disabled part of HP protect tools, some process like hp????? (didn't catch the name), this process related to the finger reader or the builtin camera. this model hasn't got the finger reader, so it may be used for camera for face-recognition

my face wont be used on this netbook hopfefully, so I disabled it to reduce the CPU usage.

scansoft pdf writer caused Outlook 2007 open word doc to crash?

saw some other posts regarding this program, word would crash unless saved first, checking solutions online going nowhere, disable this plugin anyway.

zeon word add-in may cause word to crash?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/946088

use another nokia 6234

oh dear with 2 megabit pixels. move sim and memory card over to the current one. some mesgs, contacts  and pics left behind the old one.

the correct way to do that is to use nokia PC tools to backup the old one, then restore to the new one.

on the new one , some new msgs got wiped if not backed up first.

deploy self-signed exchange 2007/2010 certificate for outlook anywhere

http://www.msexchange.org/articles_tutorials/exchange-server-2007/management-administration/managing-exchange-certificates-part2.html

the main points here is

gpmc.msc

create a GPO, in computer node ...windows settings .... security settings ... public key policies ...

Recession and Mdaemon licenses

a one year ago, we could not downgrade the 50 user license to 25.

now we can downgrade to a dozen users.

the ugly things is when I put the mdaemon and securityplus new license, the mdaemon server restarted, and new license became active. well I were not prompted as to which user account I need to keep, which user to prune. There maybe a prompt about a crash sometime later, but I am in a mode to re-create active user accounts.

the good thing is when I put a user back, md will automatically put user's aliases and forward back as well.

what a day!@#$%^&*

chris TV 5.51 lite

have to download and install the new version to watch the volcano news

setup new email domain in SBS 2008, exchange 2010

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa996314(EXCHG.80).aspx

Organization Configuration node, and then click Hub Transport. Click the Accepted Domains tab


Exchange Management Console. Expand the Organization Configuration node, click Hub Transport. Click the E-mail Address Policies tab

Enable POP3 in Exchange 2010 and exchange 2007

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124934.aspx

setup SBS 2008 exchang 2007 relay exceptions ... handy for backup program emailing reports

as detailed here
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/networking/?p=373

basically

in the server configuration ... create a received connector. in the wizard put in the ip of the email-origin.

then in permission groups tick exchange server,

in authentication, tick TLS and external-secured...

this is quite handy for 3rd' party program like backup software to send email reports.

configure outlook exchange and pop3 accounts in one profile

when replying to an incoming email or even forwarding emails from pop3 accounts, the email may try get out from the pop3 account rather than the exchange account ( which is set as default)

I think somewhere in the send tab there is a down arrow click on t\hat you can change outgoing server.

remove SONY VGN-B88GP keyboard and install sound driver

I was looking to the VGN-B88GP manual. I finally find the manual on a website. But the driver on SONY's website is not working for this model ( is there a desktop model of this notebook).

anyway back in 2005, I put a copy of drivers from CD on the D: drive. this comes handy today.

to remove the keyboard, un-do the screw at the back of the enclosure, then at the front of the keyboard, there are 3 retractable tab between those F-keys. use jewel tools gently push and prick open the keyboard from the enclosure.

outlook 2003 disconnected because exchange 2003 store service not running

not quite sure why the store wont start upon restart

scansoft paperport 11 license error in normal user mode

Windows 7 pro, HP mini, installed paperport 11. after I put the license code in, I got error. I need run as administrator to setup license. That I did.

still having that problem, I eventtually refer to an article on their website to grant permission in the license key in the registry.

I granted all permission on the license entry as I can't tell which key is which.

another day in real life.

HP elitebook not getting IP address again

early morning wake - up call. that HP elitebook not getting IP address again. remove MS security essentials, it gets IP no problem.

so I put symantec back on. still good.

ah, ... , its better to re-load.

there is another problem. the nb sometimes won't boot into windows, power off, power-on again, it seems ok. But it should boot into w-xp with or without external monitor attached? or should it? the problem is sometimes nothing on the LCD, but other lights on (may not hdd light).

called HP support, the first guy said un-plug battery, and AC power, press the power button to release static. that I did.

however a few minutes later, the same thing happened again. called HP support again. the HP tech asked me to attached a screen to it, same problem this time. they agreed to come out next biz day.

I did a bios update still no luck.

Exchange 2010 on a windows 2008 keeps rebooting on a Xen 5.5 host

this windows 2008 with Exch2010 is running fine for a number of weeks as a VM inside a Xen 5.5 host.

it started rebooting recently. It appeared related to some windows updates.

upon rebooting, the windows send error report to MS, and check solutions online.

finally it gives a clue about x64 bit cpu clock something, the windows are complaining about device drivers.

think ouside the box, there is another VM running on this host. the performance monitor indicates this XP-VM is using 100% CPU.  turning this 100%-cpu-usage XP-VM off helps the other server VM stay alive.

iphone can't sync with Exchange 2010

it keeps asking for password after I made it accepting the self-signed certificate.

the weird error on the server side is

Event ID: 1053


Make sure the user has inherited permission granted to domain\Exchange Servers to allow List, Create child, Delete child of object type "msExchangeActiveSyncDevices" and doesn't have any deny permissions that block such operations.

luckily there is a link here

http://blog.nick.mackechnie.co.nz/post/2009/11/20/Exchange-2010-Active-Sync-Issue.aspx

set the proper inherited permission, all good

easy transfer between vista and windows 7

create the new easy transfer wizard in windows 7, then run that wizard on the old vista. he said he would give that old vista PC to someone he hate. well that is another story.
 if you got three users on the vista, create 3 users with the same name in the new PC. then start the transfer. it seems fine. I used treesize to checked it.

after the transfer, some secured contente (itunes) asks for the original password. I skipped it, it didn't ask twice.

The Profile service service failed the logon, user profile cannot be loaded

tried to install a new HP W7 Pro PC for a user. the first user is fine. But when I created a new user, the new user cannot logon. So disappointing. refer to the link below, turn off UAC helped, but only for newly created admin users. I think I can change the user type back to standard.

BTW enable the default administrator user, that user can logon without that profile issue.


http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/itprovistadesktopui/thread/e56e477d-32e1-4f1f-abf9-fd19a8b1d0f6


quite frustrating, after hours of stump. have make a trip back to the boffin again.

create exchange 2010 self-signed certificate again

New-ExchangeCertificate -PrivateKeyExportable $True -Services IMAP, POP, IIS, SMTP -SubjectName cn=remote.myooophm.com

$file = Export-ExchangeCertificate -Thumbprint xxxmythumbprinthereyyyyy -BinaryEncoded:$true -Password (Get-Credential).password
Set-Content -Path "c:\certificates\mycert.pfx" -Value $file.FileData -Encoding Byte

you can deploy the selft-signed cert via group policy

world fibre traffice

http://www.net130.com/CMS/Pub/news/2010_03_16_86476.htm

install quickbooks on SBS 2008

install quickbooks on sbs2008... I have to put version 7.5 in as the the 2008~9 version is an upgrade. the installer cashed serveral times, sticking with .net 1.1 sp1 installation, cancel it, install again.

tried again and again, saddenly the whole thing installed. I can't imagine that will work on SBS 2008.

missing messages in PST file

I had used shadow protect imaged this sony notebook before, funny this time when I copied the pst file back, there is a gap in between. bizzare thing is the pst file time-stamp is ok.

then started process of elimination, by deleting all old messges, there isn't much left in the pst file, so there aren't many messages in the pst.
 he must have used something esle for email.

Maximum length of pathname in Windows

Maximum length of pathname in Windows

http://www.computing.net/answers/windows-2003/absolute-path-length/8755.html

260

actually its 256

HP elitebook not getting IP address

saddenly this notebook not getting IP address, set static IP can't ping anywhere.

re-set TCP/IP like netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt, still no luck

un-install symantec end-point, its all good now. SEP must be corrupt.