Office 365: Is Exchange Migration Active?
Are you migrating Exchange to Office 365? Are you waiting on your mailboxes to show up in Office 365 but it seems like nothing is happening? Support suggested a PowerShell …
SNMP ssCPUIdle Incorrect on CentOS 5.2
I use SNMP to monitor ssCPUIdle on CentOS 5.2. Today, after 248 days of uptime, it started returning 0% idle: $snmpwalk -v 1 localhost –c public .1.3.6.1.4.1.2021.11.11 UCD-SNMP-MIB::ssCpuIdle.0 = INTEGER: …
SNMPUtil on Server 2008 R2
Yes, SNMPUtil from the Server 2000 Resource Kit, available here, works on Server 2008 R2. The package also includes the handy SNMPUtilG with a graphical interface.
Where’s the Date, Man?
Enough with the calculated time spans already. It seems like more and more blogs and discussion posts are going towards the format “Written x days/weeks/years ago” rather than specifying an …
Hyper-V Certificate Will Expire within 30 Days
It may be a bit sensationalistic to call it a time bomb, but apparently Hyper-V will only run for a year before the self-signed certificate that allows remote access to …
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Resolves Network Dropouts
A few months back, I purchased a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge running Windows 7 Professional 64-bit. From the beginning, I had frequent issues with applications crashing due to lost connections to …
Force WSUS Check-In from Client
To get a Windows client to check in with its Automatic Update server: wuauclt.exe /detectnow To see what Automatic updates has been doing on a client: notepad %WinDir%\WindowsUpdate.log Search for …
Anatomy of a Hacked Web Site
Today I visited www.dmachoice.org, the web site of the Direct Marketing Association, intending to update my opt-out preferences. I was surprised when one of the pages took me off their …
Copy an IIS7 Application Pool
Today I needed to create a .NET v4.0 version of an existing application pool. The old app pool was installed by a vendor install and uses a custom identity that …
Install Microsoft Document Explorer
If you ask Visual WebGui 6.4’s installer to include documentation in the install, it looks for Microsoft Document Explorer. But Document Explorer is no longer included in Visual Studio 2010 …