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A change from our scheduled programming
Today I had a usual Friday “Let’s Play” lined up, but given this morning’s horrendous news, I don’t think it’s appropriate. I’m mourning the death of my country and my faith in people to do the right thing and I seriously think this is the beginning of something far worse. Normal service will resume tomorrow.
Can’t upgrade Exchange 2010 – “The service cannot be started”
The time had come to install SP3 on Exchange 2010. Things hadn’t worked, with nothing useful in the logs, when I tried to apply all the SP2 update rollups, so I thought I’d skip them and go straight to Service Pack 3. I had a few odd issues to begin with: For some reason it thought I had Windows Update running. I didn’t. Then it got through the “readiness checks” but failed because “beremote” (Symantec Backup Exec was running – …
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 people on the work domain, with work email addresses (lets say, @work.com) can email it. This was intentional, so it didn’t pick up spam and so staff didn’t email it from their home email accounts and so on. If this …
Change is as good as a rest
It isn’t. That’s a complete and utter lie. A rest is far better than change, unless the change is a change from not resting to actually resting, and even then it’s not as good as a rest, it IS a rest. Stupid phrase. Anyway. Nonsense aside, you may have noticed I’ve done a bit of decorating. I don’t know if it’s all going to stay or not yet, but it’s about time I updated the theme to something, well, updated. …
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 the kidz are wont to say, I think) and after a bit of trawling I found the solution: Open Terminal and as edit the file /etc/services (as root) Add a line at the bottom: secret-ssh 43539/tcp # secret SSH port …
Major site changes incoming!
I’ve decided (just like that, obviously) to migrate my entire lofi-gaming site over to WordPress. Well, most of it. There are a few bits that will remain as Fabulous deKay PHP, but the vast majority of pages will see the move. Why? Because most of my site is never updated. I don’t get the time to fiddle with PHP and having a CMS instead makes updating much quicker and more likely to happen. It also means I can do it …
Virtualising Exchange 2003
Later this year, we’ll be migrating Microsoft Exchange 2003 over to 2007. Apparently, this isn’t technically a migration but is instead a transition. Something to do with moving and upgrading the same product, rather than changing from another product (like Lotus Notes or something, presumably). Semantics, eh? Tch. This task is one fraught with peril at every turn, so requires a bit of planning and testing. The first issue is that Exchange 2007 only runs on a 64-bit version of …
Change the default sshd port on OS X
This was useful to me recently. I thought I’d post it here in case I forget how to do it in the future! It’s a way of letting you run sshd on a port other than 22, or in addition to 22. Be sure to read the comments on how to do the latter easily. Note that although the instructions are for Tiger, it works fine on Leopard too. macosxhints.com – 10.4: Change the default sshd port
Changing your name tag on Acrobat
I’ve recently started using Acrobat (yeah, about 14 years late) to annotate PDF files, and it has been irritating me that whenever I highlight something, Acrobat decides to add my Windows logon name as the “author” of the highlight. Since this logon name has no resemblance to my actual name, it’s effectively useless. Helpfully, Adobe don’t make it easy for you to change it to read something else. After much playing about, however, I figured it out: Firstly, you need …
Exchanging items for my identity
I placed an order with Pixmania last night. Nothing strange in that, aside from the fact I’d normally steer well clear because of the times I (and other people I know) have dealt with them only to have stuff arrive with French power cables and German manuals.¬¨‚Ć But the thing I wanted was substantially cheaper from them, and when you’re saving almost ¬¨¬£100, you make concessions. Which was a mistake, it seems. Ignoring the virtually-impossible-to-remove “loyalty card” and “Zen extended …
PC Plus changes their target audience
I only subscribe to two magazines – EGM, and PC Plus. In fact, I’ve cancelled my renewal for PC Plus because I don’t actually have a PC any more, but I still have the end of the subscription to run. Imagine my surprise when I opened this month’s issue to find, along with the usual scammy scratchcards and flyers for home insurance, this:
Exchange error 0x8004010F fix
For the last couple of days, Outlook has been throwing up the following error: Task ‘Microsoft Exchange Server’ reported error (0x8004010F): ‘The operation failed. An object could not be found.’ Googling it wasn’t much help, as there seemed to be more than 20 reasons for the fault. Emails were syncing OK, and everything else appeared to be normal. However, checking the Exchange (2003) server, and looking at the Offline Address List settings (alluded to in the majority of the search …
I’ve changed things round a bit
After almost two years with the previous theme, I thought it was time for a bit of a change. Is this better? Worse?