There have been several software packages in the past few years which did pretty much that: synchronizing data with different machines.  If you have a few computers, it’s hard getting that data between your machines. So for example let’s say you have a laptop and a workstation. Microsoft released Groove a few years back which [...]

I ran into an issue where I was unable to send email to external clients from my Xerox Workcentre 7435 Multifuction Printer. This machine was used to basically scan documents, create a PDF, then email to a recipient. I was able to do this to internal addresses no problem, but the moment we tried to [...]

In Exchange 2007, by default no one from the outside is allowed to send to your distribution group. So in your exchange message tracking, you will see this the message. In the message tracking log you will see this: 2010-11-30T19:20:24.175Z,,EMAILSVR,,,,,ROUTING,FAIL,239826,<E1PNVkT-0006EB-Tv@myserver.com>,shank@myserver.com,’550 5.7.1 RESOLVER.RST.AuthRequired; authentication required’,2302,1,,<5f111f5c-c9d0-4709-8fd4-e6d496732bd8>,RD Contact Us request,ase@wer.com,rdigroup@server.myserver.com, To fix, you must goto exchange mmc, recipient [...]

I received this error while trying to install Siemens Step 7. To get around this issue, open registry and navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\ Delete the key PendingFileRenameOperations” Should be all set

By default, Exchange 2007 sets calendar resources booking to 180 days. The error you may receive is the following. The end date of this series of recurring meetings is too far in the future. This resource can only be scheduled up to 180 days in advance. The end date must be before. You can verify [...]

Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008 all have the ADMX files locally on the system. In your systemroot folder, you will see a policy definitions folder. This is what you are looking for. Now what you want to do is create a central store. If you go to GPMC and try to create a [...]

When you utilize group policy, there are different administrative templates for Vista, XP, and 7. Instead of having to create a new OU for XP vs Vista and 7 clients, you can use WMI filtering to apply the correct policy based on OS. To accomplish this, Launch GPMC Right click on WMI filters on the [...]

Sometimes we overlook the issue that is presented to us by not looking at the simplest things. So I ran into an issue where the machine was running Windows XP 64bit and things were running great. All of a sudden my computer reported 10GB for the drive. So what’s the deal? Checking the obvious, BIOS [...]

Subversion is an open-source version control system. It is used in production by many companies. There are other software products such as Collabnet that utilize this with it’s own features. It is supposed on windows, unix, and mac os x. Today we’re going to install Subversion on a windows environment. THE FOLLOWING ARE THE SYSTEM [...]

I wanted to see if I had any failed drives on my HP-UX software raid mirrors. The command to use is. vgdisplay -v To narrow it down you can use vgdisplay -v |grep -i “LV Status” You should see a result of available/syncd if things are okay. available/stale means you got an issue.