I started using Copy.com for my cloud storage when I needed more than 2GB offered by Dropbox to save my WordPress (and back then, Confluence) backups. The guide in the following link helped tremendously. Installing and running Copy.com agent on a headless Ubuntu/Debian Linux | Allan Willems Joergensen – OnDemand.
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: License – Anti-Spam Email Gateway »
Running Confluence Over SSL or HTTPS – Confluence Latest – Atlassian Documentation.
Ubuntu Linux: Creating ethernet alias for eth0 network device – nixCraft.
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: How to Change the IP & Port With Confluence |… »
Useful for those of you like me with multiple IP aliases/NICs and you need SSH to listen on one of those. Howto bind ssh to selected IP address.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/2e47b80a-1423-466f-873a-8536a64ebe3c/presentationfontcache-hogging-cpu?forum=wpf
When using Key Finder to find product keys on an external hard drive, you have to launch keyfinder as the administratior (ie right click, run as administrator), if not, you’ll get the error as stated. This holds true even if you have UAC off and are the administrator. Key Finder: Error 1314: A Required Privilege… Read More: Key Finder: Error 1314: A Required Privilege is Not Held… »
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.
This can get extremely complex. Basically, unless you really need to, I wouldn’t bother going into it. Can I Set Up User Name Mapping in Windows Vista? – Services for UNIX – Interoperability – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
WordPress › Support » Php 5.3.0 & WP 2.8 (It is not safe to rely on the system’s timezone).
Australia/Perth via PHP: Australia – Manual.
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: TestDisk Download – CGSecurity »
I used to have some clients that weren’t willing to spend a monthly fee on antispam and to be fair, they didn’t get heaps. I impemented Exchange 2010’s antispam feature and assigned some main blacklists. A client of theirs (funnily enough at the time an ex client of mine (I changed jobs)) was blacklisted, but… Read More: Whitelisting email addresses in Exchange 2010 anti-spam | chipperfields.net »
Office Guides: Introduction to Office 365.
Office 365 Training: Administering for Small Business – Microsoft Virtual Academy.
03 | Office 365 Single Sign-On, DirSync & ADFS.
Nagios3 – Community Ubuntu Documentation.
Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands via Sorry, but Nagios is currently not checking for external commands | Project Envision.
[Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! via shocm.com » [Nagios] Error: Could not stat() command file ‘/var/lib/nagios3/rw/nagios.cmd’! :.
Installing WebVirtMgr on Arch Linux | [protofusion].
How to configure the size limit for both .pst and .ost files in Outlook.
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.
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: fail2ban – custom configs »
Used to get this a lot with clients. At my old job we had a hosted Sophos Enterprise Console, not sure if this had anything to do with it, but we use Sophos as our main AV product at my new workplace and none of our clients seem to have this issue. May have been… Read More: Re: Clients out-of-date but updates succeeding – SophosTalk community »
mdadm – Can I create a software RAID 1 with one device – Unix & Linux Stack Exchange.
Migrating To RAID1 Mirror on Sarge.
$ sudo sfdisk -d /dev/sda > parts.txt $ sudo sfdisk /dev/sdb < parts.txt via [ubuntu] Command line partition editor.
php – problem with mcrypt installation – Stack Overflow.
» Ubuntu 11.10 – Incremental Backups with Rsync Linux Log.
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: RPC Exchange Proxy – Outlook Anywhere prompting for password and… »
libvirt: Connection authentication.
How to Enable TRIM For SSD in Ubuntu – Make Tech Easier.
apt-get install vim-nox via devtime: Enable vim syntax color highlightning in Ubuntu.
Vim documentation: diff.
RapidSSL – Knowledge Center – SSL Certificates Support.
CSR Generation: Online CSR Generator for Apache, IIS, IBM, and cPanel.
Not sure really how much difference this makes on a basic ADSL2+ connection, but I use this on all my Ubuntu servers and it feels better than basic apt-get. How To Install Apt-Fast 1.8.2 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10, 12.04, 10.04, Linux Mint 16, 15, 14, 13, Elementary OS 0.2 And Pear OS 8… Read More: How To Install Apt-Fast 1.8.2 On Ubuntu 13.10, 13.04, 12.10,… »
Not sure really how much difference this makes on a basic ADSL2+ connection, but I use this on all my Ubuntu servers and it feels better than basic apt-get. How to speed up package updates using apt-fast Debian & Ubuntu.
Actually not sure if this first one works all the time. Long Path Tool: Path Too Long | Filename too long | Filename is too long | Path too long utility. The is the only tool I’ve used that has almost always worked for me. Every other solution I’ve read up on doing so… Read More: Path Too Long | Filename too long | Filename is… »
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: Enchanted Keyfinder Community Forums • View topic – Tutorial –… »
Recovering Disk Space on the C: Drive in Small Business Server 2008 – The Windows Server Essentials and Small Business Server Blog – Site Home – TechNet Blogs.
Exchange 2010: Attachment Size – Global Setting (for Send & Receive) – TechNet Articles – United States (English) – TechNet Wiki. As taken from the above link: Go to your Exchange server. Open EMC. Organization Configuration. Hub Transport. Global Settings tab. Edite Transport Settings
Can’t Merge Windows Registry – Super User.
Get a List of the Top Exchange Server Mailboxes by Size.
I’m not usually one for “hacking” settings in Windows unless it’s required for functional reasons, but I did use this on a laptop of mine because I was sick of the folders I don’t use showing up and taking up so much screen real estate. How to Remove the “Folders” From My Computer in… Read More: How to Remove the “Folders” From My Computer in Windows… »
Robocopy.
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: Exchange 2010 AutoDiscover issue »
PeteNetLive – KB0000209 – Exchange 2007 – Export Distribution Groups AND Members to a file. Used this for LAI to export list of members of distribution groups.
How to clear bash history completely?