Archive for January, 2008

How to copy, paste, delete in Emacs?

Sooner or later you’ll run across Emacs, a text editor in linux. Now how the heck do you copy and paste? [CTRL]+[C] and [CTRL]+[V] doesn’t work.. Go to the first line of text you want to copy/delete and set a mark by pressing press [CTRL]+[SPACEBAR]. Go to the end of the text that you want copied [...]

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How to run Outlook with a different account

So you are logged in as yourself, and need to access someone’s mailbox. Yes you can associated a mailbox with your account, or just open someones inbox, but when you want to do something as importing contacts, you cannot. Soo..  If you are using Windows XP Hold the shift key and right click on the [...]

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How to create an Exchange resource for meetings

Create a new user in active directory with an exchange mailbox. Logon to outlook with the newly created account. Open Tools -> Options Click the Calendar options Click the Resource Scheduling Only have the first 2 checkboxes selected, 1)Automatically accept meeting requests and process canellations. 2) Automatically decline conflicting meeting requests. When a dialog box [...]

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Livemeeting 2007 Add-In, error when scheduling a meeting with Outlook.

This problem occured on a Office 2003 install with Livemeeting 2007 conferencing add-in pack for Outlook. When you schedule a livemeeting, and click send, you receive the error “An error occured while executing this command. If this error persists, please contact your livemeeting administrator.”  First thing first, ensure the login test passes in the user accounts section. We all think uninstalls should [...]

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Prevent Adobe Acrobat from prompting Microsoft Word with macro security.

When you install Adobe Acrobat, every time you launch Microsoft word it will ask you to enable the macros. What is this? Basically it’s a  3 button toolbar for Word giving PDF functionality. Do you need it? No, because you can do file print, and then print to the PDF printer. So how do you [...]

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Where are my holidays in Outlook 2003?

So you may have tried to find New Year’s day on your Outlook 2003 calendar for 2008, and there was nothing. Why? well you think to yourself, tools, options, calendar options, add holidays. But that adds it to 2007 only. This is because Microsoft only offers holiday calendar updates for 3 years after the product [...]

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How to export a mailbox to a PST file from Exchange 2003?

This is known as a bricklevel backup. The tool we use for this is ExMerge which can be found here. Extract the file and copy it to %Program Files%\ExchSvr\bin folder of the exchange server. Ensure you have full mailbox permissions to the mailbox you would like to export. Run the exmerge.exe file. Choose the second [...]

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CISCO ASA, how do you allow an internal client to access a machine on another VLAN that resolves with a public IP?

Network security is needed, or you’re pretty much SOL. Cisco ASA-5505, I am utilizing NAT and have an internal interface and a DMZ interface. If you ping a website hosted by our webserver in the DMZ, the IP resolves to the external IP of the ASA. This is because well, web DNS is hosted by [...]

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