Archive for the ‘Sysadmin’ Category

PFDAVadmin on Exchange 2007: Could not expand…

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

You might want to use PFDAVAdmin on Exchange 2007 (to set public folder user rights for example) and run into this error; Could not expand https://yourexchange.yourdomain.local/ExAdmin/Admin/.... Name cannot begin with the '0' character, hexadecimal value 0x30. Line 1, position 399. You should either install ...

Exchange Server 2007: Renewing the self-signed certificate

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Exchange Server 2007 issues itself a self-signed certificate for use with services like SMTP, IMAP, POP, IIS and UM. The certificate is issued for a period of one year. The self-signed certificate meets an important need - securing communication for Exchange services by default. Nevertheless, one should treat these self-signed certificates ...

SSL Certificate from IIS to use in FileZilla FTP Server

Friday, August 14th, 2009

If you want to install a certificate to in Filezilla you can create a self-signed certificate. If you want to create a certificate via a trusted Certificate Authority (CA) or use an existing certificate you need to export and import it to the correct type (for filezilla this is PEM). More information ...

Install OMSA on RHEL5

Friday, April 24th, 2009

Install Dell OpenManage on RHEL (CentOS, Redhat, etc) like this; wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/hardware/OMSA_5.5/bootstrap.cgi | bash yum install srvadmin-all srvadmin-services.sh start

Easily migrate IIS6 sites to IIS7 with remote service

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

Here’s a quick howto on how to migrate IIS6 sites to IIS7. Install the Web Deployment Tool (x64/x86) on both the source as destination IIS machine. Select a custom install on the source machine and choose to install the remote service as well. On the destination ...

Release of Centos 5.3

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

We are pleased to announce the immediate availability of CentOS-5.3 for the i386 and x86_64 Architectures. CentOS-5.3 is based on the upstream release EL 5.3.0, and includes packages from all variants including Server and Client. All upstream repositories have been combined into one, to make it easier for end users to ...

Change volume type from MSDOS to GPT

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009

To use a volume larger than 2GB it needs the GPT volume label in stead of MSDOS. I used this with Openfiler 2.3. You can change it like this. THIS REMOVES ALL DATA! parted /dev/sdb mklabel GPT quit Check: parted /dev/sdb print Disk geometry for /dev/sdb: 0.000-2000000.000 megabytes Disk label type: gpt Minor ...

Linux History command with timestamp

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

History is a common command for shell to list out all the executed commands. It is very useful when it comes to investigation on what commands was executed that tear down the server or to find that one command you used in the past. If the command line history could provides ...

Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

In recent Windows 2003 server or Vista installations you might get this error when trying to launch an executable file: Windows cannot access the specified device, path or file. You may not have the appropriate permissions to access the item. SOLUTION: Right click the file, select Properties. On ...

What to do when you have a corrupted LVM filesystem (centos)?

Thursday, January 8th, 2009

- Boot the server with a Centos cd. - Press [F5-Rescue]:; > [linux rescue] - Don't startup the network interfaces - Skip mounting the filesystem (don't even mount it read-only !) lvm vgchange --ignorelockingfailure -P -a y fdisk -l The output will be something like this: Disk /dev/sda: 2147 MB, 2147483648 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 261 cylinders Units ...