Moving quicker

I like to navigate to things quickly, especially If I have to go places often or do something repetitive. My favorites are alt F4  – to close windows windows button, r, services.msc  – to get to services windows button, r, appwiz.cpl – to get to add remove programs windows button, r, eventvwr.msc – the event [...]

Information Store and System Attendent won’t start at server bootup

Its lame but I read a post where they suggested setting all of the exchange services to manual and then back to automatic. It looks like this worked, maybe it somehow reset what order the services were starting.

VMWARE gotcha, virtualizing domain controllers

Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ I virtualized a AD DC and started getting the below error The File Replication Service has detected that the replica root path has changed from “c:\windows\sysvol\domain” to “c:\windows\sysvol\domain”. Apparently windows [...]

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager, you are dead to me

IBM Tivoli might be an ok program if you are a command line jokey, or possibly if you are a large corporation that can hire a full time Tivoli expert and need to backup umpteen gazillion zillabytes of data. But it’s dead to me. The web interface quite possibly is the worse interface I have [...]

Convert Eif invoice to outgoing 880, quick Altova Mapforce Tutorial

Started working on converting an .eif file into an X12 880 using mapforce. One thing I learned was that when using the TransformTool.jar you can just specify a * (asterisk) for the new file name and it will use the original file name with .xml for the transformed file. Very Useful. So my work flow [...]

Terminal Server Stickyness

One thing that has really frustrated me and my users is when their default printer does not stick inside of terminal server. (Well that and when the spooler crashes So this time around I’m turning off the automagic that maps their local printer and instead hard coding all the printers with all supported printer drivers. [...]

Mapforce Woes

I love Altova mapforce. But every so often I run into minor blemishes. I used to be able to read in a file, modify it, and then save out to the same file. With with version 2008 rel. 2 this appears broken this is my post about it on the forum. http://www.altova.com/forum/default.aspx?g=posts&t=1000001196 Now I have [...]

One of those dumb default settings in Internet Explorer

Find this post interesting? Do you like interesting things? Maybe you would like my invention, a connectible candle called a WickBrick! Get one here http://wickbrick.etsy.com/ Have you ever had Internet Explorer open and then click on a link from an email message and have it take over the window… isn’t that annoying. Well, there is [...]

Outlook Kungfu

You ever want to edit that AutoComplete list that outlook uses (this is stored in [Your Profile]\Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook , and it always saved as the profile name of Outlook with .NK2 extension btw) Then look no farther than the freeware http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/outlook_nk2_autocomplete.html What about removing duplicate messages or contacts in outlook. Grab yourself a copy of [...]

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