PowerShell Updating com+ component username/password in PowerShell Here's a little PowerShell script that will update the username and password on a com+ component. Useful when domain accounts are used as identities on com+ objects on a bunch of systems and you need to change the username and password. write-host Starting $catalog = New-Object -comobject COMAdmin.COMAdminCatalog
Operations HP Universal Print Driver Alternative Well, this was an annoying issue. I pushed out TCP/IP printers using group policy and pointed them to printers on a print server to pull the drivers and settings. This worked awesome, except for the 45 seconds per printer overhead. I narrowed it down to the universal print driver,
ESX Unable to create VMFS partition Well, ran into an issue where we couldn't create a datastore on our freshly set up array. A lot of people said the solution was to install windows and format the disks with NTFS. While that might work, I didn't want to do that. You have
Operations Group policy extensions and shortcuts Well, here's the task, create a shortcut that would apply to certain people using group policy extension that point to a file or executable on a mapped drive...trickier than it sounds. Here's the reason it doesn't work and a workaround. When creating a
Mac Outlook 2011 on the Mac and Exchange 2007+ Had an issue today where the Outlook client on a mac out on the internet would not connect to our exchange server. Turns out that Outlook 2011 requires access to the EWS web services, and probably all other Outlook Anywhere services. We had disabled Outlook Anywhere from the outside, because
Operations DNS Intermittently not resolving domains We've run into a problem where some domains would stop resolving from Windows DNS. They would work fine for about a week, then they would stop. I couldn't find anything on the internet, and MS's support people had me try changing the CacheLocking stuff
Operations Nested group file permissions not taking effect Alright, here was my problem. I have a 2008r2 file server, tons of files, and we are removing everyone's full access rights and doing 3 groups for each root folder, a full control, modify and read only. We ran into a problem where if you put a user
Operations RSA Agent Access Denied/Time outs with NLB RSA agent on servers getting access denied and network timeout problems when the server is using NLB. Authentication Failures during test.While installing some RSA agents on NLB systems I ran into a problem where only one of the nodes would succesfully test the authentication. I started thinking, ok, maybe
Operations Server manager not displaying roles/features There was an event log error entry every time I tried in the Application event log. It was: Faulting application name: TrustedInstaller.exe, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5bc4b0 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7600.16385, time stamp: 0x4a5be02b Exception code: 0xc00000fd Fault offset: 0x00000000000529f0
TMG TMG cannot handle your request because the DNS quota was exceeded Just yesterday I started to get this error message Error Code: 500 Internal Server Error. Forefront TMG cannot handle your request because the DNS quota was exceeded. Contact your Forefront TMG administrator. (12218) while browsing the internet. I could not find any information on this message at Microsoft or anywhere
Exchange 2010 Changing SMTP 220 Header in Exchange 2010 OK, problem, the exchange 2010 server was spewing out the internal server name in the header of a SMTP connection 220 internal.domain.local Microsoft ESMTP MAIL Service ready at Sun, 15 Aug 2010 03:23:18 -0400. Needless to say, that's bad. I wanted it to show
Linux "no network provider accepted the given network path" I ran into a problem where I had one 2003r2 server that couldn't access the Linux samba servers but it could access the other windows server with no problems. I was using share level security in the smb.conf file. This worked fine up until about a month
DFS Temporary file attributes and DFS(R) We are using DFS-R on our servers to replicate DNN content between multiple servers. It works really well, except for some of our system create PDF documents with the temporary file attribute set. Turns out that DFS will not replicate files with the Temporary file attribute. Lame. I created a
Operations DNN and Asp.net 4.0 Broken Captcha.aspx and LinkClick.aspx Well, I ran into a problem with my captcha stuff on my blog, it wasn't working. Just displaying a red X. I am on a 2008 R2 server with IIS7.5 and .NET 4.0 64-bit. The fix was simple. I had to change the handlers in the
TMG L2TP ports getting changed back to routing only with ISA/TMG I have had a problem where my TMG servers where having their L2TP ports switched back to the routing every time they rebooted or TMG settings where changed, turns out that it was a setting in the TMG server causing the problem. In the Remote Access Policy (VPN) section, there
IIS6 CDO.Message on domain user in IIS6 Well, we started moving websites from a network server/local system hosting into their own locked down user account. The way it should have been in the beginning. We ran into a problem where sites that were using the CDO.Message com object couldn't send e-mails. They were