Archive for November, 2008

Don’t log a job when it works most of the time!

11-21-08

I had a job come through today from a client. “The CEOs VPN doesn’t work some of the time” So anyway after swearing and what not, I go onsite to get the low down. It appears that when the CEO is roaming around with his Telecom 3G Aircard the VPN doesn’t work some of the time. He gets “Error 800 Unable to establish the VPN connection”. After further prodding I ask, how often does it not work, “Just occasionally” he replied. If you ask me to trouble shoot the issue I’ll tell you to get bent because if it works 95% of the time and occasionally doesn’t work then what does that tell you……..Its the bloody wireless carriers problem!! Jesus!

Anyway I turned on VPN connection logging for XP by typing: Netsh ras set tracing * enabled

And went back to work. Just another day in IT Support Hell!

Posted by admin on November 21, 2008

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What are you talking about?

11-19-08

I received this email from a client today who was quoted for Microsoft Office 2007 License (With downgrade rights to Office 2003, which is what he wanted)

Both Julie and I have experienced 2007 Microsoft and do not like it because it introduces Vista which is a retrograde step.

What are you talking about?? haha muppets are everywhere - please shoot me

Posted by admin on November 19, 2008

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Cool SSH MOTD for Linux

11-17-08

I got bored of not having something useful displayed when logging into my box so I wrote a script and put it in cron.hourly now I get some “info” such as:

Latest Logins:
Latest SSH Failures: Total Count:
Latest SSH Errors:
Latest 10 /var/log/messages entries:
Latest Hardware Errors:
Latest DMESG Messages:

Click Read More to grab the code (It outputs pretty colours lol)

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Posted by admin on November 17, 2008

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How to empty a full PST file from Outlook 2000, with Mdaemon IMAP

11-17-08

This is a guide, Not a step by step walkthrough! What are you an end user or an admin? FFS!

First create a new outlook data file in outlook - give appropriate name (eg. Archive 2008)

Navigate to the IMAP store in Outlook select all the msgs you would like to “Move” to the archive Eg. Hold shift and click top msg and bottom msg
Right click select Move to Folder etc, Select destination folder. Click OK
Depending on how well outlook is behaved the msgs wont move - in fact they will still be there, but they probably copied to the Archive 2008 data file (Quick go check) Now that you have the msgs copied, you can try delete them, go on try, it doesn’t work does it….no.
–Close Outlook –
On the server navigate to C:\MDaemon\Users\<DOMAIN>\<USERNAME>
delete all the messages that you backed up (Organised by date helps :) )
–Open Outlook –
Get Outlook/IMAP to update the ‘Cached Headers’ Completely (Usually does this automatically after opening outlook?)
Right Click IMAP store in Outlook

Properties - Advanced - Compress Now - Waiting a long time (hours if we are talking gigabytes)

Posted by admin on November 17, 2008

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