October 2006 - Posts

Sun, Oct 29 2006 18:02

Outlook Junk Mail Reporting Tool

Microsoft released a little addin for Outlook which you can use to forward junk mail not caught by the builtin filter to them for analysis (and hopefully improving the filter): "The Junk E-mail Reporting Tool submits e-mail to Microsoft when you...
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Sun, Oct 29 2006 14:38

Exchange 2003 Daylight Savings Time issue

October 2006 has 5 Sundays, and this leads to a bug in Exchange 2003 manifesting itself where user's meetings are moved a day ahead. The hotfix (and a bit of info) is available here . Share this post: email it! | digg it! | bookmark it! | live it...
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Sun, Oct 29 2006 14:31

How to Turn on Remote Desktop Remotely

Here's a simple trick that I've used countless times for enabling remote desktop on an XP or 2003 machine remotely. Windows 2000 requires a service to be installed, so this won't help there. Just connect to the remote machine with regedit...
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Fri, Oct 27 2006 17:24

How to Authenticate against Active Directory from a Cisco PIX

A few months ago I posted an article with steps to configure Windows IAS and Cisco IOS for authentication to Active Directory via RADIUS. I wanted to follow up on that with a quick overview of how to setup a PIX for management access authentication via...
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Mon, Oct 16 2006 21:46

Cisco Output Interpreter Tool

Cisco has a very cool tool which they call the output interpreter (requires CCO login). I haven't used it in a while, but when I went to use it the other day, I discovered that it has been significantly improved since my last visit. It now links every...
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Mon, Oct 16 2006 21:32

Backup Exec Exchange 2003 Bug Workaround

Backup Exec (10.1 at least) has an annoying (and undocumented) bug when it comes to restoring to an Exchange 2003 Recovery Storage Group. When you go to restore a mail store to a recovery storage group, BE goes along for a couple minutes and then fails...
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Mon, Oct 9 2006 10:33

Manually Removing a Domain Controller from Active Directory

Another one from the questions I answer all the time on the newsgroups – what do I do when a domain controller is permanently failed and needs to be removed from Active Directory? The first thing to do is to make sure the DC is really gone – wipe it....
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