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Restricting who an Exchange 2010 user gets email from

At work, we have an IT Helpdesk (as part of Spiceworks). Staff can email the helpdesk, and the helpdesk creates a work ticket and the IT staff get notified. It works well. However, the system is locked so that only … Continue reading

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Managed network install of Google Chrome Frame

If you’re locked into using Internet Explorer on your network, for whatever reason, you’ll probably find that there are some websites that simply don’t work properly, and ask you to install a “modern browser” like Firefox or Chrome. Thing is, … Continue reading

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How to upgrade your Nintendo 3DS SD card

With demos now available on the 3DS eShop, it’s likely your original 2GB SD card will become a bit full, if it hasn’t done already. I found myself in this position today. Thankfully, I had a spare 4GB to “upgrade” … Continue reading

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Powershell preventing Server 2003 to 2008 upgrade

I came to upgrade one of our servers from Windows Server 2003 to 2008 today. Unfortunately, the upgrade failed in the first stages because the compatibility checker declared Windows Powershell 1.0 incompatible with Server 2008, and told me to uninstall … Continue reading

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How do you buy from Lenovo?

Answer: You don’t. In fact, you can’t. I couldn’t anyway. It’s not even the first time something like this has happened with Lenovo, as they’ve been utterly useless in the past.

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Fixing Windows Update error 8000ffff

One of our Windows 2008 servers threw a wobbly (technical term) after a power cut a few weeks ago, and although I got it working again, it wouldn’t install updates, giving error code 8000ffff each time. The usual searches of … Continue reading

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Network dropping out on VMWare guest

One of our virtual servers, which runs Apache and serves up a booking database, had been having intermittent network issues. It would be working fine for a few hours, or days, and then would “drop off” the network. Rebooting the … Continue reading

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Changing the default sshd port on Snow Leopard

Many years ago, I needed to change the port that sshd listens on on my Mac. Which I managed at the time, but I don’t remember how I did it. As is usually the case, I “hit up” Google (as … Continue reading

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Build a video encoder “drop box”

Isn’t Windows Movie Maker amazing? All that video editing fun for free. Unfortunately, it only accepts a handful of file formats (on Windows XP at least), none of which are those used by most video cameras or internet video downloaders. … Continue reading

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Adding XP printer drivers to a 2008 print server

We’re currently in the process of migrating servers from Server 2003 to Server 2008, which is proving a right old pain for various reasons. This morning’s headache was reinstalling a load of network printers on the new 2008 install that … Continue reading

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