sbuchanan Here is something new. Comodo is now offering Antivirus software for free. Wait! This is not just another free antivirus program. It is ok to use for commercial purposes. I wonder how long it will be before other antivirus companies offer a free commercial license. A way to save your company money and stay protected … Read more
The Issue:
We requested a new certificate for our website from a CA. We applied the certificate on the Internal IIS6 web server. I then exported the certificate including keys and imported onto our ISA 2006 firewall.
I then went into the publishing rule for our website and updated it with the new certificate.
When external users went to our website using https they got the following error:
Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. The target principal name is incorrect. (-2146893022)
If you get an activation error after installing and trying to Activate windows 2008 server. You will need to call Microsoft. First type “slui 4” into a command prompt. This will bring up the Activation Call Center wizard and give the Installation ID Microsoft will need. They will give you a Confirmation ID and you … Read more
Have you ever setup a website in IIS and then you got this generic error: “Server Error in ‘/’ Application.
This is what I got right after installing SharePoint server 2007, setting up a portal and trying to access the site. Here is what you need to do to get a more detailed error so you can fix the issue. You need change a couple of settings by modifying the web.config file of your website.
With today’s state of the economy companies are looking more and more to freeware, shareware and open source software to help cut cost. I know of a great imaging tool that works well and is completely free (for non commercial use). However the commercial product is competitively priced. You can get a 5 user license for $100. Pricing click here.
It is called DriveImage XML.
This tool is a nice alternative to Acronis and Norton Ghost. Here are some of it’s capabilities:
I had a user that was an external contractor. He was on a few distribution lists and wanted to receive those emails at his yahoo.com email account. Here is what I did to accomplish this:
I created a contact in Exchange for user1 with an external email of user1@yahoo.com.
Use a tool called Image Burn. It is free and can be downloaded here: http://www.imgburn.com/ A walk through on how to Burn the Windows AIK .IMG File to a DVD: http://themudcrab.com/vistapeguide_waik_imgburn.php
I work with VMware Lab manager and there are many times when I just need to get a simple folder onto my Virtual Machine. I need to load this folder into the Media library. I cannot upload files or folders only ISO’s and floppy IMG files. There is a utility called Folder2iso that I use … Read more
Have you ever needed to lock down a computer for public or shared multiple user use? Have you Ever needed to lock down computers in a non server non centralized environment? I was recently tasked with locking computers down for public use in computer labs at a conference.
It is a challenge to know what users may or may not have changed after using a shared computer. My users needed permission to make changes to the hard drive and or applications during computer use. However I did not want these changes to be permanent.
Some of the problems I have seen from users of shared computers are: spy ware, viruses, the windows theme completely changed, downloaded programs installed, a corrupt OS and more. It takes time to reload an OS or re-image a machine. No one wants to spend time reloading or re-imaging multiple computers if they don’t have to. I discovered a free utility from Microsoft that was exactly what I needed for locking these computers down. It is called Steady State.
Have you ever had email from one specific domain bounce back from Exchange with status code of: #550 4.4.7 QUEUE.Expired; message expired ##? I ran into this problem. It turned out the mail server on that domain was blocking email coming from our Exchange 2007 mail server. Here is what I did to narrow down the issue.