I was hoping for some Export-Mailbox -PSTFolderPath functionality for mailboxes in a database in a recovery storage group but what I ended up doing was: get-mailboxdatabase -identity “ServerName\Recovery Storage Group\Mailbox Database” | Add-ADPermission -user “domain\adminusername” -ExtendedRights Receive-As Then using ExMerge on an Exchange 2003 box to export the mailboxes to PST format. The following Powershell… Read more »
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Joomla 1.5 FTP settings
I was receiving the following error: The FTP settings are not valid or your FTP server is not compatible with Joomla!: The function "MKD" failed and stupidly blamed mod_security for the problem (rule 900610 did cause problems so I disabled it -see below), until I tried command line FTP and realised that I couldn't create… Read more »
nslookup mx records
$ nslookupDefault Server: dnsserver.comAddress: 111.222.111.222 > set q=mx> mymailserver.domain.com
Outlook Web Access Light To the Rescue
Microsoft’s deliberate feature omissions from OWA Light came to the rescue today when some of our users could not access OWA full during a recent spell were we had to use temporary mailbox databases while we repaired corrupted databases.While normal Outlook access appeared to be fine. OWA was giving the following error message for some… Read more »
Webcam on Ubuntu Just Works : Canyon CNR-WCAM413
I bought this particular webcam Canyon CNR-WCAM413 through Amazon as it was reported to just work on Linux – and it does on Ubuntu 8.04. Thanks to that french guy who laboured away at making drivers for all these devices! Plugged it in, booted up and an lsusb showed: jonny@nova:~$ lsusbBus 005 Device 003: ID… Read more »
Apache Troubleshooting
Occasionally some requests to web servers cause memory/cpu problems – for the wrong reasons and sometimes the right reasons. I recently had a problem with a Google Search Appliance crawling a Drupal calendar but in hindsight it was probably my own fault as I had been playing with some of the settings below.Which URLs are… Read more »
Change Hostname
Great article here.Check current hostname: hostname Change the hostname in the following files: vi /etc/sysconfig/networkvi /etc/hosts Now run: hostname mynewhostname restart networking /etc/init.d/network restart
Forward Root’s Mail
Forwarding the email sent to root on a system to another email address.vi /etc/aliases # Person who should get root’s mailroot: myreal@emailaddress.com The run:/usr/bin/newaliases Test it.
OWA Change Password button
OWA allows for changing the AD/domain password but in our case this needed to be disabled as currently password syncronisation back out to the other directories is not possible.EMC > Server Config > Client Access , for each of the Client Access machines right-click the Outlook Web Access – owa option and choose Properties. In… Read more »
Ubuntu NumLock Problem in Hardy
Symptom: The Num Lock key does not seem to have any effect and the number keys do not work. Cause: Upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy Heron 8.04. I keep my home folder on a separate partition and have it mounted on boot so something in my home folder configuration folders/files must be having a conflict… Read more »
