Author Archives: rick

License – Anti-Spam Email Gateway

Not used this myself, but upon a quick glance, it looks useful. In the past I used mailcleaner open source, but found it a bit hard to keep up to date and tweak. We currently use, recommend and sell XWall which is extremely functional. It works with Microsoft Exchange (which most of our clients use).… Read More »

How to Change the IP & Port With Confluence | eHow

I implemented Confluence by Atlassian at my previous job and found it extremely useful for collaboration between the techs. If only I could get the management/accounts team to utilise it as much as we did, it’d have been even more useful. Annoyingly, every upgrade required me to redo this. Unfortunately after implementing it at my… Read More »

Category: Web

Internet Archive: Wayback Machine

Found this useful when someone has asked me to update their website, or when someone has lost access to their webhost through various reasons (old IT company gone bust, manager has left and no-one else knows the details etc). Internet Archive: Wayback Machine.

TestDisk Download – CGSecurity

I’ve now had 2 times whereby I’ve lost partition information on hard drives. One was completely random, the other had issues already and I was trying to fix it. TestDisk was crucial in the recovery of data. The first issue was when I used an external hard drive to backup a client machine and when… Read More »

WordPress can’t update or install plugins and asks for connection info

Sometimes file permissions can get a bit screwed up in your www directory in Linux. Maybe it was a command you blindly ran from doing some reasearch, maybe it was something else. The following guide helps explain how to fix it. Why WordPress Asks for Connection Info – Chris Abernethy . com.

Category: Web

fail2ban – custom configs

Can’t remember where I got this info from, but it is extremely useful. I have a feeling I pulled bits from over the place. I used this procedure to lock down my Owncloud installation when I had it running.   Test fake logins, look at logs, find the failure line and then add file in… Read More »

RPC Exchange Proxy – Outlook Anywhere prompting for password and never connects.

Exchange 2007 issues with users logging into outlook using rpc over http (outlook anywhere). Keeps prompting for their password and never connections. This is because IIS RPC directory has Windows Authentication disabled. Re-enabling it only stays that way for about 5 minutes, then goes back to disabled. This is because of Exchange’s maintenance. The solution… Read More »

Enchanted Keyfinder Community Forums • View topic – Tutorial – Recover Adobe CS3-CS5 key

Tutorial – Recover Adobe CS3-CS5 keyPostby sag47 » Sat Jan 29, 2011 3:52 amI’m writing up this tutorial because currently Enchanted Keyfinder doesn’t have this functionality. It will soon though. I made this for those people what want to be able to recover their CS3, CS4, or CS5 key who don’t mind getting their hands… Read More »

Exchange 2010 AutoDiscover issue

Exchange 2010 Autodiscover was failing at one of my clients, yet none of us changed anything particularly. Thanks to Adam Miceli int he F5 Devcentral forums, the following solved our issues.   “….make sure that the Autodiscover vdir is not requiring SSL. I have had that problem. Sometimes patching causes that setting to get re-enabled.”… Read More »