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Self Issued Certificates

December 13th, 2011 No comments

You can use the makecert tool to make your own self issued certificates.

makecert -pe -r -n "CN=certnameinhere" -sky exchange -sr localmachine -ss my -len 2048 -eku 1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1 -e 01/01/2100

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Restarting Blackberry Services in the Correct Order

December 2nd, 2011 No comments

I was fed up with trying to find out the correct way to stop and start the Blackberry services. Here is the correct order and a script to do it.

net stop "BlackBerry Controller"
net stop "BlackBerry Dispatcher"
net stop "BlackBerry Router"
net stop "BAS-AS"
net stop "BAS-NCC"
net stop "BlackBerry Server Alert"
net stop "BBAttachServer"
net stop "BlackBerry MailStore Service"
net stop "BlackBerry MDS Connection Service"
net stop "BlackBerry Policy Service"
net stop "BlackBerry SyncServer"

net start "BlackBerry Router"
net start "BlackBerry Dispatcher"
net start "BlackBerry Controller"
net start "BAS-AS"
net start "BAS-NCC"
net start "BlackBerry Server Alert"
net start "BBAttachServer"
net start "BlackBerry MailStore Service"
net start "BlackBerry MDS Connection Service"
net start "BlackBerry Policy Service"
net start "BlackBerry SyncServer"

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Restart VMware Service Management Port

December 1st, 2011 No comments

To restart the service management port on ESX and ESXi carry out the following commands :

ESX

service mgmt-vmware restart

ESXi

/sbin/services.sh restart

Exchange 2010 Find SMTP Address

November 23rd, 2011 No comments

Log onto the mail server.

Open up a command prompt as administrator.

Run the following command :-

ldifde –f c:\addresses.txt –l proxyaddresses

This will create a file in c: called addresses.txt. You can then open it and find the address you are after.

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Exchange Management Console, Initialization failed

November 16th, 2011 No comments

When loading the Exchange Management Console for Exchange 2010 you might get the error :-

The following error occurred while attempting to connect to the specified exchange server ‘servername.local’:

The attempt to connect to http://servername.local/Powershell using “Kerberos” authentication failed: Connecting to remote server failed with the following error message: The WSMan client cannot process the request. Proxy is not supported for HTTP Transport. Change the transport to HTTPS and specify valid proxy information and try again

In order to resolve this I opened a command prompt in admin mode and ran the following command :

netsh winhttp reset proxy

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Enable CLR in Microsoft SQL Database

November 1st, 2011 No comments

Login to the Database in SQL Management Studio.

Run the following query.

sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO
sp_configure 'clr enabled', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

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UPS not detected by HP Power Manager in Server 2008 R2

October 20th, 2011 No comments

I had an issue today where I couldn’t detect a HP R3000 UPS connected to a HP server serial port.

We tested it with 2 UPS’s, 2 different serial cables but still no joy. The HP Power manager software just kept saying it couldn’t detect a UPS and a red cross appeared.

In the end we discovered that the ILO was to blame.

To fix it, we connected to the ILO website and chose the administration tab.

Under the menu to the left, select settings and Access and then the options tab.

At the dropdown list for “serial command Line Interface Status” chose disabled and apply.

The ILO card needs to be restarted for changes to take effect. In order to restart it just go into network settings and change from DHCP to manual and back again and click apply.

Source : Kolltveit

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