Hotmail – Activesync (finally)

Finally I have activesync for hotmail on my Android ( Nexus One )

Basically the settings are

  • Username: you@hotmail.com
  • Password: your hotmail password
  • Server Type: Activesync (choose manual setup)
  • accept certs
  • Server Address: m.hotmail.com

its not working too well tho, some syncs are not doing anything. At least its a start.!

J

sccm 0×00002024 CCMCertFix

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

Block Facebook Chat using Squid ACL

Please note: This will not block HTTPS/Secure Facebook sessions. You will need to use some other tool to do that. Options might be DNS/IPTables or higher level url blocking.

 

We have a need to block facebook chat, we chose that due to the overuse of it. Why not block all of facebook? Well overall most people only check the status update of others.. apart from that there is nothing much else to do apart from chat.

simply just created a ACL for url path

/ajax/chat/
/ajax/chat/buddy_list.php
buddy_list.php
/presence/popout.php
/friends/ajax/edit_list.php
edit_list.php
chat.php

This is very disruptive and gives the impression that the chat is semi working.. so the user just accepts there is an issue with facebook itself & not a company policy.

J

 

Sony Vaio VPCZ1 (z11)

Ok, I had to buy from Sony again. They make good laptops I must admit.

One thing they are doing more and more.. bloat. !Please Sony, Stop this!

There is WAY too much bloat, menus and popups… this is why people like Apple.. and this is why I have to format before I can even use it…

Basic Review:

Design – Its niceer than the Z21, build is smoother and cleaner lines all around.

Functions – It has everything the z21 did, plus a Blueray Recorder..

Pro – i7 CPU and more RAM + All next gen hardware

Con – Extra Life Battery is big and heavy.. guess its a compromise..

7/10 so far.

How to Disable old computer accounts in AD

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

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Gallery3D

SCCM OSD VISTA ERROR

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

 

Exchange 2007 – SAN Certificate & MSSTD

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

 

OTA_Bravo_HTC_EU_1.15.405.4_1.15.405.3_release_signed

OTA_Bravo_HTC_EU_1.15.405.4_1.15.405.3_release_signed

 

that is all..

FCS Removal – How to remove forefront manually with BAT

I needed to quickly remove and reinstal forefront accross my test domain.

 

Here it is (replace “FCS_PATH” with the path the the FCS source)

msiexec.exe /x “FCS_PATH”\mp_ambits.msi /qn
msiexec.exe /x “FCS_PATH”\momagent.msi /qn
msiexec.exe /x “FCS_PATH”\fcsssa.msi /qn
MsiExec.exe /X{2DF2E496-D3B7-4A6F-A341-6DE48FDFEF0A} /qn
“FCS_PATH”\fcsinstallscript.vbs
“FCS_PATH”\mpam-fe.exe /qn

 

What is all this?

The above will

  1. Remove FCS & MOM agents
  2. Install FCS & MOM
  3. Install latest complete update for FCS
  4. Silently

J

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