Installing Active Directory or Windows Certificate service the wrong way round.
SMTP failure, multi-skilled or by Towers
The UPS monitoring server goes through the firewall to reach the SMTP relay server. After hardening, the test emails are not going out. The server engineer was pulling his hair out because everything looks fine at his end. There is…
How to share your WiFi Netwwork
You want to offer free WiFi to your friends / customers / patrons. Naturally you want to secure it prevent leechers and at the same time hassle free. Note your SSID password will be exposed, but these methods save you…
Using Lubuntu as a daily driver.
In a previous post, I wrote about putting Lubuntu on my Compaq Presario notebook. Now that is some tweaked (turn off LCD screen, use external monitor), I am trying to keep it as a daily driver. Microsoft Office. I thought…
Windows XP and Lubuntu
Moving out of Windows XP into Lubuntu
Vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer
Hmm another Microsoft Security Advisory. This time, strangely it affects Internet Explorer 6 to 9. That is nearly all versions. The vulnerability seems to be quite unique. It could allow the hacker to perform remote code execution on websites. The mitigation…
Did you change the settings?
Way back in the days of Wordstar, I used to reconfigure nearly every option, colors, backspace buffer, highlights etc. It was really easy, all the settings is in just one file. The single program instance helps a lot. When I…
SQL 2005 cluster upgrade.
The main SQL server is on a SQL 2005 cluster. It is time for an upgrade to SQL 2008. This will be an interim measure until the hardware refresh the later half of 2012. The main aim of the process is…
Sharing storage using iSCSI target
If you have lots of storage to spare, one way is to share it out via a file share. This is useful on a file server level. What about sharing spare disk space at the storage level? There are solutions available,…
Windows 2008 R2 server cannot login.
My SCCM server in the midst of deploying new clients when it started behaving strangely. Deployments started failing and progressively the server operations degraded and Windows Explorer stopped working. After a reboot, a domain user cannot login, all that is…