http://www.css-networks.com Carl's blog about stuff Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:10:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Add user BPSAdmin Add to group Administrators AD Users & Computers -> View -> Advanced Features Domain Properties -> Security -> Add BPSAdmin -> Apply onto: User Objects -> Send As Regedit: HKCU->Software->microsoft->Exchange->ExAdmin-> New DWORD ShowSecurityPage=1 ESM -> Right-click Org -> Delegate Control -> Next -> Add BPSAdmin -> Exchange View Only Administrator Right-click Org -> ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/12/blackberry-professional-server-for-exchange-quick-setup.html Fedora 10 is released at 10am Eastern US time. That means 15:00 in the UK. Only five and a half hours to go. As far as I know AMD/ATI still haven't released drivers for X Server 1.5 (X.Org 7.4), which is a shame because for now I would avoid any laptops ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/11/fedora-10-is-out-today.html The left mouse button on this EEE PC 701 no longer clicks. It still works, if you press very hard, but there is no feedback from the button and it's very horrible almost totally unusable. I took the machine apart to see what the microswitch looks like, and then started searching ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/11/asus-eee-pc-701-mouse-button-click-repair.html Old hard drive is E: (mounted through USB to IDE adapter) New system is C: C: cd \ mkdir Application xxcopy e:\Application c:\Application /clone /TC Since CopyControl relies on the created/modified/accessed timestamps of the files within the hidden/system control directory of the application, the above will preserve them and CopyControl won't be aware that the application ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/10/overcoming-copycontrol-protection-of-old-16-bit-applications-with-the-help-of-xxcopy.html Microsoft's Small Business Server 2008 is too expensive. The trade cost for an OEM copy of SBS 2008 Standard Edition is now exactly double that of SBS 2003 R2 Standard Edition. Most people talking about the price increase only state that Premium Edition costs more because of the extra functionality, but ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/sbs-2008-is-too-expensive.html I've mentioned this before, in my About Me page, but I just tried out a more current release of OpenChange and the Evolution mapi plugin, from this source: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/msuman:/evolution-mapi-provider/ This thing is so close to being totally sorted. I'm really impressed. The current build from the OpenSuse build farm service (19th Sept) has problems ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/native-mapi-exchange-server-connectivity-on-linux-rpchttp-is-coming.html Wow. This took me totally by surprise, and it seems to work very well. There's no sound redirection or clipboard, but basically you connect to the Linux machine using an RDP client (Microsoft Remote Desktop Connection, or Terminal Server Client), and instead of getting a Windows logon box, you get ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/linux-as-an-rdp-remote-desktop-protocol-server.html This is due to the print spooler service not running, or dying during the install. You may also find that the print spooler service frequently dies - "spoolsv.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close", or the Printers and Faxes folder frequently appears empty - i.e. all your printers are ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/when-adding-a-printer-installing-driver-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable.html It is possible to stop Outlook prompting for the user's password when using RPC/HTTP (Outlook Anywhere / Outlook via Internet) on a client running Windows XP Home or Vista Home Edition. We already know how to do this on XP Pro/Vista Business, even if the XP Pro/Vista Business machine is ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/it-is-possible-to-save-the-password-on-xp-vista-home-edition-for-outlook-working-via-rpchttp.html This is useful. The params can be a filespec, e.g. "*.pdf", or they can just be values given on the command-line. Let's say you are remotely accessing a computer, and you want to release and renew its IP address. When you release the IP address, you'll lose connectivity and won't be ... http://www.css-networks.com/2008/09/for-a-in-param1-param2-do-something-with-a.html