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I recently upgraded to Exchange 2010 on my home network. Everything went well, but when I started the Exchange Management Console for the first time I got this error when trying to open the Server ConfigurationClient Access node: —————————Microsoft Exchange—————————Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message : The WinRM client received an …
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If you import a self-signed certificate into the Trusted Root Certificate Authorities store you will not get certificate warnings for that certificate. Nice to know when you are working with servers that generate self-signed certificates.
So I thought I would put together a list of the stuff I use. Mostly as sort of a memo to myself, but if anyone finds this useful, so much the better. Name Description Audacity Sound file editing Paint.NET Image editing HashCheck Checksum verification/creation MyDefrag Defragmentation VirtualDub Video edition Foxit Reader PDF Reader/PDF Ifilter 7-Zip …
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Keyboard shortcut Does what Works on Notes Win+P Brings up the dual-monitor settings. Windows 7 Win+X Launches Windows Mobility Center Windows Vista, Windows 7 Win+L Locks computer Windows XP and above F2 Rename file/folder Windows In Windows Explorer More to come… Link to a KB article that lists a lot of shortcuts: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/126449
A PGP clone that works on Windows: GPG4Win Display GPG info: gpg.exe –version Importing your old PGP keys Open a DOS Window (run CMD.EXE) cd to the directory where your PGP keyrings (pubring.pkr & secring.skr) live. Import your PGP keys to GnuPG: gpg –import secring.skr gpg –import pubring.pkr You’ll need to go in and assign …
WHOIS is a query/response protocol that is widely used for querying databases in order to determine the registrant or assignee of Internet resources, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system number. Usually WHOIS queries are performed with a command line client and such a client is almost always a …
The Windows XP Mode Base VHD file (Windows XP Mode base.vhd) is stored in C:\Program Files\Windows XP Mode. The Differencing disk is stored, by default, in C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows Virtual PC\Virtual Machines.
For several reasons I have decided to start publishing my blog posts to both my own, privately hosted, SharePoint Blog and my Windows Live Spaces account. This will be the first such post. The URLs of the blogs are: SharePoint Blog: www.simonsen.bz/blog Windows Live Spaces Blog: http://morgansimonsen.spaces.live.com/blog/
Over the years I have been involved in quite a few Active Directory deployments and restructures. On these projects much time is always spent, or should be spent, on designing the OU structure. The main thing about OU structure desing is to keep thing simple. Some organizations like to take the organizational chars and copy …
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Whenever chkdsk.exe runs during boot time it is often difficult to see the result before Windows reboots again (which is the default behavior). The whole of chkdsk’s output is saved in the Application log as an Information event, with source Winint and an event ID of 1001.