Technology
Bing vs Google
Microsoft should just go ahead and make Google the default search engine in IE 8. It’s just one more thing I have to do on all my computers, it’s annoying, and Bing just sucks.
Virtualbox, Fedora 11, and VBoxAdditions
If you are getting this error “Please install the build and header files for your current Linux kernel” when installing vboxadditions on a Fedora VM here is how you fix it: yum install kernel-devel-2.6.29* **You have to replace the above kernel build number with the one that the error spit out or it won’t work. [...]
vSphere client on Windows 7
I have been struggling with this one since I started running the Windows 7 RC. Now that Windows 7 has officially been released there is this workaround that worked for me. http://www.techhead.co.uk/running-vmware-vsphere-client-on-windows-7
Adding aliases to Distribution Groups using Powershell
On several occasions at work I have been asked to add email aliases to distribution groups for testing purposes. Depending on how many you have to add, in my case 30 or more, doing this through the exchange systems manager just won’t do. I mean, what self respecting systems engineer is going to copy and [...]
Robocopy command line switches
This is the output from “robocopy /? > robocopyswitches.txt” run from a Windows 7 command prompt. ——————————————————————————- ROBOCOPY :: Robust File Copy for Windows ——————————————————————————- Started : Tue Sep 01 08:55:42 2009 Usage :: ROBOCOPY source destination [file [file]…] [options] source :: Source Directory (drive:\path or \\server\share\path). destination :: Destination Dir (drive:\path [...]
Migrating from backup exec 11d to 12.5 on a different server with a different name
Works like a charm. http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/287063.htm
Auto-response to external (Internet) addresses with Exchange 2007 and Outlook 2007
Recently I was asked to setup an email address that would be used for resume subittals for a position my company is hiring for. I was informed that when emails were recieved by this account an auto-response would need to be generated that attached a questionnaire (part of the weeding out process) as part of [...]
WSE0020001 illegal header format detected: Illegal start line in request
Recently one of our sales offices was not able to download postage using their Pitney Bowes postage machine. I was seeing dropped packets from the machine in our Checkpoint firewall logs. The logs were stating that SmartDefense was blocking the packets due to an illegal header format detected in the http protocol. After speaking with [...]
U3 USB Drives
A year or so ago I was in need of a USB storage device and found a 2GB Sandisk Cruzer on sale at Office Depot for $29.99 (a deal at the time). At that time I didn’t realize the drive I had just bought was U3 compatible. A short time after plugging the drive into [...]
Turning off prompts for Exchange 2007 powershell commands
Just pass the -confirm:$false parameter to the command you are running and the annoying confirmation prompts go away. Beware that you must make sure you know what the command is doing before passing this parameter….the confirmation prompts are there for a reason. It does make changing permissions on ,say, 1000 public folders much less annoying [...]
