at one point i was experimenting with various video output settings in the linux version of the vlc media player. then later on when viewing videos i noticed a lot of ugly artifacts were showing up especially during scenes with lots of motion. i couldn’t recall what the default settings were for vlc after i […]

i’ve known about the netflix through wine option for quite some time. however, i had limited success with it because all i could get to stream was audio with garbled video. the problem turned out being on my end because i didn’t have the composite extension enabled in X. to do so with an nvidia […]

informative review of various self-service password reset products: http://windowsitpro.com/windows/comparative-review-self-service-password-reset-managers

t-sql syntax: USE AdventureWorks2012; GO BACKUP DATABASE AdventureWorks2012 TO DISK = ‘Z:\SQLServerBackups\AdventureWorks2012.Bak’ WITH FORMAT,       MEDIANAME = ‘Z_SQLServerBackups’,       NAME = ‘Full Backup of AdventureWorks2012’; GO sources: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187510.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773.aspx

http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/office365-enterprises/ff637601.aspx bulk user import w/ csv files http://community.office365.com/en-us/wikis/upgrade/1096.aspx detailed info on SSO options: SSO toolkit, adfs, shibboleth *very useful* http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_in_education/archive/2013/05/02/update-the-live-edu-sso-toolkit-to-maintain-single-sign-on-access-on-office-365-education.aspx info on updating the SSO toolkit to support office365 http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn194122.aspx info on converting a federated domain back to a standard one http://mshiyas.wordpress.com/tag/windows-powershell-cmdlets-for-office-365/ great list of msol* cmdlets http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj205461.aspx setting up a trust between adfs and […]

i’ve had to generate and install these a few times for various MDM products. the process isn’t so bad. generate a CSR from whatever vendor’s product you are using. then go to https://identity.apple.com/pushcert/ and login with an itunes account. create a new certificate based on the CSR. then download the newly generated certificate and install it.

dsquery user -name * -limit 0 | dsget user -samid -hmdir -hmdrv lists all users and their UNC home directory paths and drive letter mapping dsquery user ou=admin,dc=mydomain,dc=com -limit 0 | dsmod user -mustchpwd yes enables “user must change password at next logon” flag dsquery user -name ericb quick query to retrieve OU of user […]

a power outage some time ago messed up the VDR backup destinations. recataloging nor integrity checks would ever finish. i finally gave up and decided to reformat the destinations and start anew. the weird thing was that even after being reformatted one of the destinations would still fail an integrity check. the following article describes […]

delegate access seems to come up all the time… from an outlook 2010 perspective, to grant delegate access go to the file menu choose the account settings dropdown and choose delegate access. to open another user’s mailbox that you have delegate access to, also go to the file menu click open and choose “other user’s […]

in the exchange management console server configuration->hub transport->select hub transport server then double-click client <server name> under receive connectors relevant info in the network, authentication, and permission groups tabs common settings… server name: hub transport FQDN port: 587 security: STARTTLS auth method: password source: http://help.globalscape.com/help/me3/configuring_authenticated_access_to_exchange.htm