It’s Cubert’s Birthday

On August 6, 2011, in Life, Raves, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Happy Birthday Cubert!!

 

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How-to : Pass a username and password to Windows shutdown.exe command.

On July 29, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Here was my scenario I found myself in not to long ago. I have an Active Directory domain with a server outside of the domain in it’s own workgroup. It used different credentials for the administrator account then what the domain uses. One day it stopped responding to RDP and several control programs we have on it so we needed to do a reboot.

No problems right? just type… Continue reading

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How-to : Setup GoDaddy SSL on Tomcat using a Public Certificate

On July 28, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Hello again,

Today I will be walking you through the process of setting up your Tomcat installation to use a public SSL certificate. I will be using examples from my Ubuntu 11 box but this will work with any linux based Tomcat install.  We should have you up and running in just a few minutes, here is what we… Continue reading

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How-to: Setup Ubuntu and PHP to use MSSQL Microsoft SQL Server

On July 21, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

It is easier to get PHP on Ubuntu to connect to MSSQL than it is to get PHP on Windows.

 

I would not normally believe such a thing until I tried to setup a pre-existing install of PHP on Windows missing any MSSQL extensions. Looking through Google to find information was less than quick and I found myself wanting to go back to my old faithful Ubuntu server… Continue reading

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Time, I don’t need no stinking time!!

You won’t here Windows saying that, Microsoft relies on time for Active Directory to work correctly so if you start to drift you will see access errors. Have you seen the following eventlog in your system logs resently?

The time provider NtpClient is configured to acquire time from one or more time sources, however none of the sources are currently
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Increasing MS Exchange 2010 message size limits

On July 13, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

There’s a few places you must go to change this and that is in global settings under Organization Configurations as well as the HUB Transport connectors under Server Configuration.

To modify the global settings go to the following menu areas inside you Exchange Management Console. 
Organization Configuration->Hub Transport->Global Settings tab->Properties of Transport Settings
 

Here you can adjust your… Continue reading

Out of the skunkworks here at Squidworks comes a new Kaseya Agent Procedure. This procedure (Script) pulls all members of privileged accounts groups like Domain Admins, Enterprise Admins and Schema Admins and stores it to the GETFILE location on your K-Server. Also viewable using LiveConnect -> Agent Data -> GetFile Tab.  You can add and remove groups from the VBScript to match your needs… Continue reading

If DNS resolves a users system and that system is no longer at that IP then you may see a Event ID 10009 in the systems event logs. Check DNS for duplicate entries first…  If you have the same computer name in DNS twice with 1 IP being correct and IP not, remove the wrong IP address.

This was a recurring error regarding a particular laptop on

When using GoDaddy UCC certificate with Exchange 2010 there are some termoil on how best to do it. Here is my quick how to on using the UCC Certificates with Exchange 2010.

You shoul edit the powershell command below to reflect your domain name and sub names. Remove all Squidworks.net from the command and insert your domain and sub domain names.
Set-Content -path “c:\temp\squidworks_net.csr” -Value (New-ExchangeCertificate -GenerateRequest -KeySize 2048 -SubjectName… Continue reading

How-to: ESX4.1 using Vmotion with Local Host Only Storage

On June 25, 2011, in How-to, by Cubert aka (Cube Dweller)

Can you vMotion using local ESX host storage?

 

Oh man the VCPs out there are screaming “No!!! You can’t vMotion Local Storage!”. Oh to the contrary my friend, with a wee bit of ingenuity you can do many things. Now before I go any further I will state the obvious. As any VCP will tell you, you can’t vMotion the local… Continue reading

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