Motorola Droid X Hard Reset
Is your oversized Droid X giving you fits? Follow these steps below to wipe your hand held and start the initial setup process again. Note: This will not format you MicroSD card. So any apps or...
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Configuring DNS Round Robin in Windows DNS for Load Balancing
Ok, so you have say 3 or 4 servers. Maybe Web, or even Terminal Servers. You also don’t want the headache of setting up Network Load Balancing (maybe you are on VMWare, where it doesn’t work well...
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Disabling the Windows Firewall via a Group Policy Object
If you are tired of the Windows Firewall getting in the way of…well…everything on a domain and you feel you have a good gateway solution in place, here is how you can disable it with GPO. Open your...
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Deleting Default-First-Site-Name
Is it safe to delete Default-First-Site-Name from Active Directory Sites and Services? If you have setup other sites and moved your servers into them, yes. If this is your only site, then no. You must...
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Installing ADMX files for Office 2010 or related to the central store
So, like many others, you are probably wondering just how to install ADMX files from something like the Office 2010 templates. Its some hard to locate info so here a quick article to help you out....
View ArticleInstalling Exchange 2010 Pre-requisites the easy way
Usually, I’m not a huge fan of Powershell over the GUI but in this case it is simply faster and easier. Its an except from the TechNet site that I use quite a bit. To install all needed roles for...
View ArticleForcing a retention policy to run in Exchange 2010
If you need to see your new retention policy in Exchange run right away, you will notice you cannot right click and “Run Now” or anything of the likes. You will need to open Powershell and manually...
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DPC tweaking guide for AV / Gaming
If there is one thing I hate, its stuttering music and games. Long story short, this is usually caused by DPC latency, or your system waiting to execute information, usually from a bad driver (IE...
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Vmware VCenter Appliance Default Password
Quick post here, but to save you from looking it up in the book, if you are installing the new VCenter Appliance, by default the appliance will grab DHCP. Hit it via SSL over port 5480:...
View ArticleHow to disable the Office 2013 Upload Center
If you are running Office 2013, you may have noticed a randomly appearing “Upload Center” with an orange icon. And if you are here you also noticed that you cannot exit, or disable the …ahem…. thing....
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HP Proliant and SmartArray P212 6TB Drive Support
While it is not documented very well by HP, we wanted to test to see if the new 6TB drives are properly seen and configurable with the HP Proliant and the 212 Raid Card. I am happy to say that it works...
View ArticleChanging Windows Server Evaluation copies to retail with DISM
If you have installed the Eval copy of Windows Server, you may decide once you get it configured that you want to push it into production. Unfortunately, you will shortly realize that its not as simple...
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Creating an IPSEC VPN Tunnel between Watchguard & Sonicwall devices
To create a tunnel between these two devices you will note each has varying settings but not all line up. You can try and mess about with settings and eventually it will work, so I decided to post what...
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