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A personal blog of an IT techie - This is a convenient place for me to jot things down before I forget.

January 2005 - Posts

How to turn off comments in .Text
For me the GUI doesn't allow it so I simply used DbaMgr2K to edit the .Text SQL tables directly. I changed the Flag field in table blog_Config from 63 to 47. The value 16 is the binary switch to allow comments on or off. Read More...
Posted: 30 January 2005 22:34 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Commenting turned off
As I'm currently being swamped with feedback spam for "On-line Casinos", I've temporarily turned off commenting. You can leave any comments you wish here . Read More...
Posted: 30 January 2005 22:31 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Comment Spam
Got my first blog comment spam today. Shame I subscribe to this way of thinking. ;-) Read More...
Posted: 30 January 2005 17:44 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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How to change the default route in Cisco IOS
Type the following. Replace text with your own values: telnet hostname password enable username password conf t ip route 0.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 gatewayip ^Z write mem show ip route exit Read More...
Posted: 27 January 2005 17:29 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Do not move the Exchange groups!
Two groups (Exchange Enterprise Servers and Exchange Domain Servers) are created during Exchange "setup /domainprep". One group (Exchange Services) is created during the installation of the Exchange ADC. Do not move these groups from thier default location Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 22:34 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Free eMail certificates
You can obtain them from here: http://www.thawte.com/ Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 22:27 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Controlling how often the RUS runs
Apart from the schedule that is available to control the RUS, you can see the interval that the RUS uses by looking at the msExchPollInterval attribute on the domain or enterprise RUS service: Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 22:21 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Searching Multiple Public Folders in Outlook
Outlook does not support searching of multiple public folders from the advanced find index. This apparently is by design as the folders will not necessarily be consistant on all servers at all times. There are a couple of tools you can achieve to do this Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 22:06 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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Changing the Display name in Active Directory
By using ADSIEdit you can change the display specifiers used to construct the users display name. The only usable ones I have found for the ADUC dialogue box are: <%givenName> First name <%sn> Surname <%initials> Initials givenName, Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 21:48 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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How to customise Exchange email addresses
If you have a recipient policy that generates non-unique email addresses in Exchange 2003 then the recipient update service will add numeric characters to make it unique. For example if you have this as your email address: %1g.%s@thefoleyhouse.co.uk You'll Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 21:18 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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IMF Archive Manager
I knew this tool existed but lost track of it. The tool allows you to examine mail that has been archived by the IMF filter that can be added to Exchange 2003. Microsoft allow you to archive the mail but provide no easy tool to look at it. Head on over Read More...
Posted: 13 January 2005 09:16 by Karl | (Comments Off)
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