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I got this,

Simple answer:

just run (as admin) on the client machine and boom, it works! CCMCertFix.exe

http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=977203

Becuase ‘dsmod‘ & ‘dsquery‘ support piping (passing results to a new command) you can easliy send results from dsquery to dsmod.

I wanted to disable old computer accounts, then after 60 days I will delete them.

dsquery computer -inactive 8 -limit 0 | dsmod computer -disabled yes

The above will search for computers that have not connected for 8 weeks, say after being removed, destroyed etc. then it will disable the computer account.

I a few weeks I will then search for disabled accounts, might export a list and then delete them form AD.

you could expand this and createa a weekly task that would check and disable/delete accounts, or move them to a locked down part of AD etc.

J

I was getting a nice 4005 error while trying to Build/Capture of Vista Sp2, the error was occuring just before windows installtion had started (after applying drivers)

It seems there was an incompatibility on one of the divers as I use mainly XP Drivers, To workaround this I created a new driver category for Vista to use (instead of all the drivers avaliable)

I got it working by

1. Create a “Vista_Network” driver catergory and added the basic Network/required drivers
   
2. Edit The Build-Capture tasksequence
3. Goto the “Apply Driver” task
4. Select “Limit Drivers To “Vista_Network” Category”
5. 

   As you can see

   Save

It will now work and you dont need to disable drivers etc.

Good Luck

Ok,

I finally bit the bullet and purchased a SAN Certificate for Exchange 2007 so that I dont get any more problems with security errors etc. There was a small problem though, The SAN consisted of

CN = domain.com
SAN (Subject Alternative Name) = autodiscover.domain.com & rpc.domain.com & webmail.domain.com

Due to the way outlooks connects over RPC/HTTPS you need to make sure you update the MSSTD Record to reflect the CN on the certificate

• Set-OutlookProvider EXPR -Server $null -CertPrincipalName msstd:domain.com

Ok,

I just purchased a copy of BFBC2 and installed it. I am getting a little tired of Crysis and need a new game until Crysis2 or better.

I couldnt get any pings nor join any games let alone even login!

I havent looked into the real cause but here is a solution of sorts.

1. Run as Administrator
2. Disable Windows Firewall

This seems to fix the problem.

I Will find out the real cause/fix when I have time. For now I am just going to switch the FW on or off depending on what game it is.

J

I was getting erros deploying to a x64 boot pxe, it would never work..

until *actually* copied the x64 boot image to the DP

duh!

check client access rights in

Client Agents –> Computer Client Agent –> Network Access Account

Sometimes it sucks to get files from 4shared (20kb/s!!), RS etc..

I decided to host any ROMS that I use here.. for faster access..

enjoy!

Villain 2.1

• Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=5438050&postcount=1
• MD5SUM 2a020dd5efe6571df2e5fa5704bb3c32
• Villain2.1.zip

Vanillain 1.0 (fast -htc stuff)

• Source: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=629959&postcount=1
• MD5SUM: cf5e88e50d8e4b59c3da75b5acf3983f
• Vanillain.zip

Becuase it took me ages to get here it is for others

• maps3.3.1-by-directions-no-root-2.apk
• googlebits-signed_v1.1
• NetworkLocation
• Gallery
• Maps3.2.1-patched-no-root

enjoy

I have started testing out Data Protection Manager 2007 R2 in my learning enviroment. I had previously tested it last year but found it to be horribly slow and inconsistant.

This time I have good hardware to work with and I am getting really sick of Backup exec and the failures (tape control etc)

The server consists of

• Quad Core 2.5
• 4GB RAM
• 1x80GB System Drive
• 4x1TB Sata2 on a hardware RAID controller (RAID0)
• 1x1GB NIC (2 soon)

Money is an issue so the server needs to be cheap, It will server no other use except backups, My plan was to use the 4TB array for short term disk/staged backups then Tape for long term backups. There are some risks in working this method as RAID0 has no redundancy and a loss of a disk will cause a loss of the array (ouch) so I plan to use my slow NAS (raid5) for daily mirrored backups. Something likethis

Exchange—>4TB raid0 (daily+incremental+recovery etc)—>1tb Raid5(daily)—>tape (weekly)

I will connect my 2tb nas via gigabit crossover to remove the overhead from my network and increase speed. I expect to get around 10-20MB/s compared with 300MB/s on the local raid0.  This should give me some redundancy and if all goes well I will migrate to local RAID5/6 and remove the NAS all together.

The install and config was very easy, Much faster and better than before. In general the UI is smooth and clean (too clean, See later). Microsoft seems to have taken all the choices out of backing up. Really you just choose the server and the service and you are done. Its simple and works as advertised.

My problems are:

• Errors are hard to diagnose and there seems to be no logging of agents (see prev post).
• Detailed info, Current activitys are hardly detailed. I prefer the advanced info from Backup Exec
• No support for Windows 2000 ( I know its old )

But compared to the now Symantec Bcakup Exec, its better. Not crazy better.. but better. I will stick to the testing over the next few weeks and see how it pans out.

J