Wednesday, March 31, 2010

MOSS Sharepoint 2007 Quota Error

Problem: When you have quota setup (for example 300MB) and a user attempts to upload a file that puts them over their site quota, you will get errors when logging in a site admin account.


Workaround: Log in to central Administration as the Production Farm Account and you will be able to increase the site quota.

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

IPv4 Address Space Finally running Out!

http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/56346

Monday, February 8, 2010

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Save mapped drive password in WinXP

How to save a mapped drive password in XP
The manage network passwords utility in XP doesnt have an add password function so you have to go to the command prompt and use the following :

NET USE U: \\NETHOME\USERID /PERSISTENT:YES /SAVECRED

Friday, June 26, 2009

Windows Server 2008 as a primary desktop environment

Okay, so the Linux experiment is over... Next time I will stick to a VM when making such a drastic change!

I am beginning to study for my MCITP Server 2K8 and so I thought it would be a great idea to install it as my primary OS on my laptop.
I researched a couple of websites before taking the plunge:
http://blogs.msdn.com/vijaysk/archive/2008/02/11/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-super-desktop-os.aspx
http://msmvps.com/blogs/paulomorgado/archive/2008/05/14/using-windows-server-2008-as-a-desktop-operating-system.aspx

The install was a piece of cake and adding the features was simple enough. The main gotchas are drivers. drivers drivers drivers..
My laptop is fairly new, a Dell Latitude E6400 w/ P8400 2.26GHz Core 2Duo and 4GB of RAM so I knew I had enough horsepower but finding the correct chipset and graphics drivers turned into a bit of a struggle.
Dell didn't help so you have to go to the manufacturer.
This site helped A TON! http://www.ma-config.com/accueil_en.html
It allows you to see the actual Manufacturer part number, then you can search on their site for pre-release and beta drivers.
I finally found that I needed a graphics driver and a graphics accelerator driver for everything to be happy.
Ok so initial take,
Pros: quick boot, I was able to pick the 'features' i wanted and none I didn't, really fast install, and instant access to all enterprise level administration tools.
Cons: mainly just the driver support.

I was able to install all my applications Office2k7, dameware, firefox, chrome, wireshark, etc with no problems.

So far this laptop is solid.. Next task will be setting up VMWare and testing performance..

Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Switching Laptop to Linux as primary OS

I started the process to move my base OS to linux last weekend. After screwing around with Fedora 10 & 11 for most of the time I am now happily running Ubuntu Hardy with VMWare Server 2.0 running a copy of Windows Server 2008 which I'm using for testing and Administration.
Pros: the goodness of a linux based OS, access to 100's if not 1000's of open source packages, The coolest Graphical Environment (compiz fusion).
Cons: it took 6 hours to get dual monitors working and it's still not perfect. Can't connect to Exchange 2007 with Evolution except through IMAP which doesn't allow me to use calendar functionality.

Overall, I'd say I was a very entrenched Windows user who is having the normal growing pains from being in a new environment.

I look forward to working a bit more on the graphics support and learning my shell commands as well as I did before.

Friday, June 19, 2009

Active Directory Search for accounts expire time

dsquery user | dsget user -samid -acctexpires