At a larger client I needed an easier way to disable a service on 400+ workstations than manually stopping and disabling the service. Group Policy would have worked but I wanted something quicker. Something that would not require me to reboot or force a Group Policy update to all those workstations. I use PSexec for [...]
Monthly Archives: March 2008
Fixing OWA / Recreating Exchange 2003 Virtual Directories
The other day, one of they guys I work with at the office was troubleshooting a smart phone issue with Exchange 2003 at a client and asked me for some help. Well, I setup the server initially to be able to do syncing with smart phones and PDA’s so natrually, I should be able to [...]
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Switchvox PBX replaced my trixbox
This was a pretty quick change but one of my friends recommended that I try out Switchvox which is an IP PBX build on Asterisk and is owned by Digium. I took a few looks at the webpage and I was pretty much sold. It looked so easy (and pretty). I installed it on a [...]
Posted in Linux
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trixbox now working
Well, a few weeks ago I really wanted to get a home phone setup for my house. My wife an I have been using our cell phones for pretty much everything for the last 2 years and thought it would be a good time to get something else. So instead of taking the easier route [...]
Posted in Linux
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Cisco PIX 515E upgrade to 7.0 Code
Today I used the monitor mode version of the installation procedure to upgrade a Cisco PIX 515E that was 2 months from being out of a SMARTNet contract. Just in time. This is done by rebooting the firewall with the reload command or flipping the switch (whichever you prefer), and pressing ESC during the boot [...]
Posted in Cisco
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