June 5th, 2010
VCDX Defense
Defense interviews will be held during the following days:
- July 5-9, Melbourne, Australia (Application Deadline: May 18)
- August 23-27, San Francisco, CA (Application Deadline: June 21)
- October 11-15, Copenhagen, Denmark (Application Deadline: August 2)
- November 1-5, Cambridge, MA (Application Deadline: Aug 30)
Completed applications will be scheduled in the order recieved.
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June 3rd, 2010
A customer complained about Snapmanager for Exchange (NetApp) not working. The following error was in the eventlog:

Microsoft says the following about this:

Probably so rights issues on the mailbox. On the internet I found a script that the Mailbox GUID
turnover to the user. Download this script here : MbxGUIDtoMbxName
Give the GUID and the script gives the user name.


In this case there were rights to an Outlook folder from someone who was already out of service
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May 18th, 2010
Gabe has a good blog post with VMware vSphere 4 default settings. Don’t agree with all settings although… read it here
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February 23rd, 2010
By default Outlook 2003 doesn’t support encryption towards the Exchange server. Enable it using the mail settings or disable encryption traffic on the exchange server :

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February 23rd, 2010
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February 23rd, 2010
The last time I ran into a few problems with Activesync and Exchange 2010.
First, Activesync with Exchange 2010 doesn’t work when you have an admin account. You get a strange error (HTTP Options not allowed). Remove your account from the domain admins group for example and it should be working fine.
Activesync still not working? One customer changed the default domain policy. The following settings are important :

Still not working ?
Open dsa.msc (Active Directory Users and computers). Enable the advanced option under view.
Now check out the properties of the account who is trying to sync.

Select Security / Advanced.

Enable the include inheritable permissions from this object’s parent.
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February 19th, 2010
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February 16th, 2010
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February 10th, 2010
This is how to move your DHCP settings from one server to another :
use cmd.exe to issue the following command : netsh dhcp server [ip address] dump >dump.txt
use notepad and the search/replace option the change the source IP address into the destination IP address.
Save the file and import the settings with : netsh exec dump.txt
Don’t forget to authorise the new SCOPE! All done.
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February 6th, 2010
Today I found a simple way to bypass today’s firewalls, e-mail filters etc. You need a) funny picture of some kind and b) some files (any kind) to store within that funny picture.
The secret commando :
copy /b JustAPicture.jpg + SecretFiles.rar SecretInside.jpg
Now the files are inside the JPG picture and you can extract it with winrar like always.
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