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Should you replace a whole department's PCs or half?
Our department are replacing the PCs that are over 3 years old. However, despite the age of the PCs, they're all similarly spec'd, so a 3 year old PC is still the same similar spec as a 1 year old ...
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1answer
708 views
Free/busy information from powershell?
Are there any powershell commandlets for reading free/busy information in exchange 2007/2010? I have been unable to find any.
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2answers
2k views
VirtualBox guest network lost after host disconnects
I am running VirtualBox both on a Snow Leopard OSX host machine and on a Windows Vista host machine. Whenever my host machines lose internet connection the guest machines seem to lose internet ...
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1answer
357 views
Example Batch File To Start A Spot Instance Of Certain EC2 AMI?
I want to start a certain EC2 AMI at the click of a button, well two buttons actually. Just to speed up testing / launch-time.
How would you call the EC2 API tools for windows via a batch file to ...
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4answers
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Windows XP Professional will not save network credentials between reboots
We have a Windows XP Professional computer that needs to access a network share hosted by a Windows Server 2003 machine, but the user does not want to enter a user name and password over and over ...
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3answers
588 views
Leaving Mirror Port Configured on PowerConnect Switches
I am going into all my Dell switches to reconfigure them. Is there anything wrong with enabling a mirror port and just leaving it on for all the switches so it is there when I need it?
I am ...
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2answers
551 views
How do I force an iCal server to only allow SSL connections?
I have an OS X 10.6 Server running the iCal service. When users on machines that are bound to Open Directory open their iCal client, it automatically configures their connections to the iCal server at ...
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2answers
1k views
Severe Memory Pressure on SSAS 2008 on Windows Server 2008
I have a single instance of SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services running on Windows Server 2008 x64 with 8GB of RAM on the server. All of the settings for memory are left to their defaults.
When the ...
0
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1answer
339 views
What permissions or local security policy settings are needed for a AD account to run .NET application on IIS
I have a Windows Server 2003 running IIS. I have created an application pool specifically for a web service application. The identity of that application pool is a domain account. The domain ...
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3answers
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Two CNAME records being resolved differently (Windows 2003 Server)
Note: this is a followup to an earlier question after further investigation.
The issue (so far) seems to be isolated to a Win2003 DNS server (though I haven't tried other server-types)
The questions ...
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2answers
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Using Export-Mailbox without including subfolders
I want to delete a certain group of messages from somebody's mailbox. I already have the basic Powershell command ready to go:
Get-Mailbox -Identity jshmoe | Export-Mailbox -SubjectKeywords ...
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2answers
154 views
Cheapest/Easiest Server capable of hosting ASP.NET websites
I want to setup my own server at my house that is capable of running ASP.net pages and SQL databases for development testing purposes. I want it to be a dedicated server (not just running on my ...
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2answers
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PowerShell: Copy all AD users of an OU to another OU
I'm trying to copy all users of OU "A" to the OU "B". My PowerShell shot at this is
$sourceEntry = [ADSI]"LDAP://OU=A,DC=demo,DC=com"
$targetEntry = [ADSI]"LDAP://OU=B,DC=demo,DC=com"
$searcher = ...
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3answers
4k views
Automatically answer defaults when doing 'make oldconfig' on a kernel tree
When building a new kernel based on a previous config, is there a way to automate the 'make oldconfig' process so that it sets new options to their default values?
Edit: What I mean is that when ...
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4answers
854 views
cannot send mail to postfix /w iptables linux proxy
I have two separate servers, both running Ubuntu 8.04.
Server 1 has the real domain name of our site, let's refer to it as example.com. Server 2 is a mail server I have setup with postfix/courier. ...
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1answer
992 views
Wordpress blog doesnt work after putting web server behind a reverse proxy
my blog has been working fine for over a year now but now ive put the server behind a reverse proxy it gets stuck in an infinate loop.
Other websites work fine with this new proxy, i can still login ...
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1answer
507 views
How can i configure a DNS server client communication between two linux machine?
I need to configure a simple DNS server client communication between two linux machines.
I have the configuration files of bind9 but i didn't get much idea from that.
Can any one help on this?
My ...
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1answer
106 views
Migration from Exchange 2003 to Google Apps
I cant get the migration to work from Exchange 2003. It uses IMAP for migration and I have enabled IMAP on every user in the Active Directory. It comes up with an error 'unable to authenticate the ...
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2answers
633 views
Can't access database server over VPN
I am attempting to connect to an Oracle server via a VPN. I have tried to do so, unsuccessfully, from OSX and, alternately, from a Windows XP VM machine (VMWare Fusion) running on OSX.
I can, ...
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6answers
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In Linux/Debian, did the passwords (/etc/passwd) ever been stored as plain text?
Someone is telling me so and I have some doubt but I can't find any information on the web.
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2answers
378 views
Disable CPUs on boot but allow hotplug in Xen
I would like to create a Xen VM with 32 possible VCPUs but have the guest OS only enable 2 of them on boot. Are there some kernel parameters I can pass in to enable this? I've played around with ...
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3answers
1k views
forward ssh and ftp with a reverse proxy (squid)
I already have a reverse proxy setup for HTTP, and im now looking to add ssh and ftp to it.
i assume i can just copy the rules from the http list?
how do i go about forwarding the requests? id like ...
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2answers
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How can I create a read only Sql server 2008 account?
I want to be able to give read only access to my SQL Server 2008 database server. In particular two databases one called "live" and one called "stage".
Essentially the guys who receive this username ...
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2answers
319 views
Set web browser (or other program) to use specific network
my PC is connected to 3 different networks: 2 different LAN connections and a VPN connection.
when i am connected to the vpn, i cannot browse to the LAN intranet as the DNS is all going through the ...
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1answer
2k views
Exchange Transport Service Started but not working
Good day,
Here is the problem : We are hosting a Microsoft Exchange Server. Everything working fine until recently, where the mail transport seems to go wrong. We almost have to restart the service ...
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3answers
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Group Policy Editor is not showing in Administration tool's list
I just installed the Windows 2003 server administration pack SP1 but I need to set a new GPO but it's not listed in All Programs - Administrative Tools
When I open MMC, I add a snap-in and the Group ...
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2answers
199 views
Apache jamming at low load average
Apache seems to stop responding sometimes even though apache processes are still running.
After restarting apache, the load average usually shoots up from 1 - 2 to 13 - 15 in a matter of seconds.
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2answers
715 views
Setting up Samba shares on a Linux VPS
I'm trying to set up a folder that can be accessed via Windows clients over the net on my Linux VPS on which our companies website resides.
I know a little bit about Linux, and have used Samba before ...
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2answers
2k views
Running OpenFiler inside XenServer to provide Storage to other Xen instances
I'm setting up a Testbed to run some tests on Xen, since I would like to use live migration I was thinking about using iSCSI as a storage, but I only got 2 machines for my quick setup. So my idea is ...
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3answers
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How do I shrink the size of a SQL Server log file
I can't figure out how to shrink the size of the databases ldf file.
The DBA says I should use
backup log dbname with truncate_only
And while that looks like it executed correctly in SQL Query ...
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2answers
8k views
Reset Button on Dell PowerConnect 5324
The instructions for this switch say about the reset button on the front of the switch:
"The reset button, located on the
front panel, manually resets the
device."
Well thanks Dell :-) Is a ...
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2answers
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Windows XP and IE8 javascript won't work even though Enable Active Scripting is enabled
I have a Windows XP machine on our LAN, origianlly running IE7 and now IE8, javascript won't work even though Enable Active Scripting is enabled. I've disabled the Anti-Virus with no luck. Other PCs ...
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2answers
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Reverse Proxy with squid
Im trying to setup a reverse proxy so that i can have multiple web servers on my network.
I currently have 2 servers:
10.0.0.45 - New Server Webserver/Squid Proxy
10.0.0.40 - Old Server Webserver
...
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2answers
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synchronizing storage servers
we have a storage server, with currently an amount of about 20TB of media files which we want to synchronize with a second storage server, for backup and fail-over. the facts are:
we're storing ...
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1answer
518 views
SVN inside another SVN
I have simple project that is in SVN and everything works fine.
I want to use code from another SVN server in folder inside this simple project.
How can I do this?
I want to have the ability to ...
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4answers
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Is access to the GNOME desktop required to be a system administrator?
I’m a blind programmer with limited system administration experience doing things like setting up development servers. There’s been a lot of complaints about Oracle firing the main accessibility ...
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3answers
2k views
Linux software RAID 10 implementation
I don't want to force anybody to make it on behalf of me but trust me: i've looked hundreds of sites and i can't find a good starting point for this.
I have 4x500Gb HDD's which i want to set up in ...
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4answers
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logrotate does not compress /var/log/messages
Over time I noticed some logs in /var/log such as auth, kern and messages were getting huge. I made logrotate entries for them:
$ cat /etc/logrotate.d/auth.log
/var/log/kern.log {
rotate 5
...
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1answer
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IIS7 Minimum HttpModules Configuration for Static content website
I am trying to setup a really fast, compressed, cached static content website to serve only .jpg, .css and .js
I want to remove all functionality from the website configuration that is not required:
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4answers
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How do I use .htaccess to always redirect from HTTP to HTTPS?
There's a few similar questions which I tried to work out the answer from, but so far I have been unsuccessful. Please advise how I can always redirect http to https (and also remove www. from the ...
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4answers
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Is it possible to host email and DNS on AWS
We are working towards moving our app to AWS. I have heared that email and DNS cannot be hosted on AWS, is this correct?
If this correct, then what are my options?
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4answers
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Cron not running my Python statement
I have the following entry in crontab:
* * * * * python -c "import datetime; datetime.datetime.now()" >> /home/myname/pythoncron1.log
The pythoncron1.log file is being created but has nothing ...
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4answers
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Daily Weekly and Monthly DB backup with logrotate?
I am currently keeping daily backup of my database by doing a daily mysqldump and by using logrotate to keep the 7 last days of mysqldump.
I would like to improve this backup process to keep 7 daily ...
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1answer
457 views
Is it possible to deploy a standalone ASP.NET application to SharePoint 2010?
Is it possible to deploy a standalone ASP.NET application to SharePoint 2010, as you could in SharePoint 2007?
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3answers
628 views
Use WebSVN as default HTML view
when opening an subversion URL like https://server.local/svn/reproname using a normal webbrowser I get a (not very nice but useful) webpage showing me the files of the highest revision of the ...
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What's the difference between authorized_keys and authorized_keys2?
Just wanted a quick summary of the differences between them and why there are two?
Cheers
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Access Denied / Server 2008 / Home Directories
Domain Controller: BDC01 (192.168.9.2)
Storage Server: BrightonSAN1 (192.168.9.3)
Domain: brighton.local
Last night I moved our users home directories off of our Domain Controller onto a storage ...
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1answer
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Setting up a SQL Database on an IIS7 Server
I have a server running IIS7, and Ii want to set up an SQL database on it to use with my web application. I have read this post and I'm very new to this so I'm a bit lost as what to do.
can somebody ...
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1answer
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List all files modified or created by certain application
Is there a free tool to list all files modified by certain application?
What I would like to see is that I can start "monitoring" and start my application (MS Word). After that I can stop ...
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2answers
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UDP traversal through router automatically without router port forwarding?
Everyone knows the router is working like a firewall. Without port forwarding, a connection (no matter TCP or UDP) cannot be initiated from outside of the router. However, if a user initiate a TCP ...
