exchange 2007: resource mailboxes

to grant delegate access to a resource mailbox you actually don’t use the delegates feature (which threw me off). instead you simply grant the user full access to the mailbox (Add-MailboxPermission <resource> -AccessRights FullAccess -User <user>) source (this article tells you everything you need to know about resource mailboxes): http://blogs.technet.com/b/exchange/archive/2007/05/14/3402515.aspx update 4/22/2013: there’s a little […]

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vcenter: moving vm to resource pool warning

in vcenter 4.x, i’ve occasionally received a warning when moving certain vms to a resource pool. the warning states that the vm “will be entitled to 0% of the cpu resources in the pool”. when i’ve seen this warning in the past it has made me think twice about putting that particular vm in the pool. […]

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javascript: embed rss feed into web page

this site very easily generates the javascript code to do so: http://feed2js.org/

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wsus 3.0 sp2

not only need to install the IIS role but also the following IIS features: asp.net, windows authentication, dynamic content compression, and IIS 6 management compatibility source: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverwsus/thread/4e4756ea-136c-4272-9181-b7153904487e/ default update types to synchronize: critical updates, definition updates, security updates critical and security updates are default set for auto approval 1 synchronization per day default installing wsus […]

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promise vtrak disk arrays

controller unit E310fD (fibre channel, dual controllers) JBOD unit J310sD (dual controllers) 1 controller unit can have up to 4 JBOD units attached to it. WebPAM default IP address: 10.0.0.1 default credentials: administrator, password also the rails on these things are terrible. the only plausible way to mount them is to take all the drives […]

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ubuntu 12.10

i’ve been using 12.10 for two days now. i haven’t noticed much difference yet besides the following: kompozer has been removed from the repository (possibly because it doesn’t seem to be maintained) some application launcher icons on the gnome classic panel are not being displayed properly (size scaling of the icon is off) gnome’s archive […]

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microsoft EFS

EFS on file servers: can’t use groups for access also appears that you cannot set access on an encrypted folder, only on individual files user who encrypts the file(s) chooses who has access to the file(s) for a remote file server to host EFS files, the file server’s computer account in AD must be trusted for […]

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kde: files on desktop

i just found this out today and have no idea how long it was possible to do this. files/folders can be shown on the KDE desktop by right-clicking the desktop and choosing  Desktop Settings->View->Layout->Folder View. this is something i’ve whined about forever. also if you right-click the KDE application launcher you can choose “Switch to […]

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xml tools

http://www.freeformatter.com/xml-validator-xsd.html – online tool for validating an xml file against an xsd http://www.validome.org/grammar/validate/ – online xsd and dtd validator http://www.xmlforasp.net/CodeBank/System_Xml_Schema/BuildSchema/BuildXMLSchema.aspx – online xsd generator in linux, i was able to generate a DTD from an xml file by using the trang utility.

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windows 2008 file share: ABE

ben told me about access-based enumeration (ABE) in 2009. it allows folders that a user does not have explicit access to on a file share to remain hidden. so it’s definitely ideal for home directories. from share and storage management, choose properties for a share then “Advanced” then checkmark “Enable access-based enumeration” to enable the […]

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