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MS Outlook authentication fails after Ubuntu 12.04 upgrade

Posted by John Sorensen on April 30th, 2012
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After upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 my MS Outlook 2007 (installed in wine) started failing to log in and kept prompting me for credentials and eventually after being entered in too many times locking my Active Directory account. After looking at the logs I saw that the issue stemmed from NTLM which was upgraded during the distro upgrade and started defaulting to NTLMv2 instead of NTLM. To correct this issue I did the following: 1) Open smb.conf (in Ubuntu it is located in /etc/samba/) 2) Add “client...
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Remove “Safely remove hardware” icon from 2008R2 server on vSphere5

Posted by John Sorensen on March 13th, 2012
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I have 3 identical Windows 2008R2 server VMs hosted on an vSphere5 server for testing a Citrix XenApp 6.5 deployment. After a few weeks I noticed that one server had the “safely remove hardware” notification icon. Anyone could see the possible problems that something like this could have. The other 2 servers did not have this icon which was odd seeing they all came from the same template. After much time spent on google and many forums and trying many things (mostly registry editing)...
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NDR 550 5.4.4 from Exchange

Posted by John Sorensen on April 26th, 2011
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A few users at my company randomly receive NDR’s Containing the information below when they send to a recipient not on our domain… Generating server: YOURSERVER.YOURCOMPANY.COM IMCEAMAILTO-someone+40remotedomain+2Ecom@YOURCOMPANY.COM #550 5.4.4 ROUTING.NoNextHop; unable to route ## Although I do not know why and it happen’s so rarely that I am not worried about it I thought I would at least post the fix in case I forget, like I said, it rarely happens. To change/fix it do the following… Open...
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List all DB’s along with size for SQL Server 2000/2005

Posted by John Sorensen on September 27th, 2010
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For backup reasons I needed a list of all the MS SQL databases along with the size of each DB on our MS SQL servers. To do this log into the SQL server and go to SQL Enterprise Manager and select the server you need to query under “SQL Server Group”. Once highlighted goto “Tools” then select “SQL Query Analyzer”. In the query window type the following: EXEC sp_helpdb; GO Once entered press the F5 key to submit the query. After completed you can either manually...
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Excel opens blank spread sheet

Posted by John Sorensen on June 14th, 2010
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This happens when something dealing with the file associations with excel stop working correctly. I am not sure what the exact cause is but I have only seen this in Citrix environments with Office 2007 installed. Opening spreadsheets through the excel program itself works correctly but trying to open a spreadsheet by opening the file through explorer or though a shortcut wont work. To fix the problem… 1. Go to the folder options in control panel and select the “File Types” tab....
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Outlook doesn’t display zip files in the Insert file dialog

Posted by John Sorensen on March 23rd, 2010
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Problem: When you open the Insert File dialog in when composing an email message, Outlook “hides” the zip files in the directory. The only way to add a zip as an attachment to a message is by opening Windows Explorer and dragging the file to the message window. Cause: Windows has a system component that treats zip files like ordinary file folders and Outlook sees these files as folders. In most cases, it only happens when you don’t have third party compression programs installed,...
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Terminal Services License Reporting Tool

Posted by John Sorensen on March 23rd, 2010
The Terminal Services License Reporting tool provided with the Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit can be used to analyze the information contained in the license servers database. The file name for this tool is lsreport.exe. It is a command line utility that outputs the information from the license server’s database into a tab-delimited text file. The reporting tool can be used with the following parameters: /F filename Directs output to the written to a file name ‘filename’ (‘filename’...
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Change Word 2007 default font and size

Posted by John Sorensen on March 23rd, 2010
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MS removed the ability to change these setting easily though GPO (I have no idea why). The only way that I know how to change the default font and size for word 2007 is by editing the normal.dotm. The easiest way change the Normal.dotm is by just opening it directing. Each user on a workstation has their own and is located in the templates folder in their profile. In a deployment scenario you would use a login script to copy the new Normal.dotm file to a users profile. The exact path changes from...
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Intro to SVCHost.exe

Posted by John Sorensen on March 10th, 2010
Basically when you see this (or multiple instances of this) running on your computer this means that you have services running from dynamic-link libraries (DLLs). The Svchost.exe file is located in the %SystemRoot%\System32 folder. At startup, Svchost.exe checks the services portion of the registry to construct a list of services that it needs to load. There can be multiple instances of Svchost.exe running at the same time. Each Svchost.exe session can contain a grouping of services, so that separate...
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Error printing from Outlook

Posted by John Sorensen on February 11th, 2010
To fix the this error go to “Start” then “Run” and type regsvr32 ole32.dll (if that doesnt work try oleau32.dll)
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