Category Archives: Tips and tricks

Mass updating SaveAs field in outlook contacts

Posted on 2009/01/13 by amar

If you ever had a problem that you needed to change SaveAs field in contacts in Microsoft Outlook on all contacts here is one small VB script that parse everything for you. The only thing that you need to do … Continue reading →

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Lenovo/IBM Cisco VPN problem

Posted on 2008/11/26 by amar

Yesterday I tried to connect to my work network with Cisco VPN client after recent reinstallation of my laptop but without success. Error that I was getting was PEER_DELETE-IKE_DELETE_UNSPECIFIED. I tried to find some with similar problem on Google but … Continue reading →

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How to mount web folder (webdav) under Linux?

Posted on 2008/11/23 by amar

I have recently received 10GB of disk space from my ISP for free so I thought that I could store backup of my local server there. For making my Ubuntu server to recognise webdav as a file system I needed … Continue reading →

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Creating simple cleanup scripts on Windows 2003

Posted on 2008/11/10 by amar

Here is one short tip. If you had problem with old log files that are being held on system after too much time and wanted to delete all of them automatically here is explanation how to do it. open notepad … Continue reading →

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"'Agent XPs' component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server." error while creating maintenance plans on MsSQL server 2005

Posted on 2008/10/13 by amar

While trying to create some maintenance plans on MsSql server 2005 (default installation) with SP2 installed I have received this error message: ‘Agent XPs’ component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. While trying different … Continue reading →

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"Setup failed to start on the remote machine. Check the Task scheduler event log on the remote machine." error while installing Microsoft Sql Server 2005 in failover cluster

Posted on 2008/09/26 by amar

Last few days I was installing failover cluster in MsSql 2005 and whille installing it I got this error and installation wouldn’t continue. In error logs there is message: Running: ScheduleActionAction at: 7d8/8/19 b:c:2a Complete: ScheduleActionAction at: 7d8/8/19 b:c:2b, returned … Continue reading →

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How to build antispam SMTP gateway for Exchange on Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on 2008/09/13 by amar

Because previous solution that I have done on Windows didn’t worked in way I wanted, I have decided to make dedicated Linux SMTP filtering gateway. Note: You can copy/paste all commands written here although they are not inline, they will … Continue reading →

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Vista/XP virtual desktop manager

Posted on 2008/09/11 by amar

After intensive testing of Sysinternals Desktops utility I have found new one that is also FREE and that works better than Desktops. Things that I missed in Desktops were: you couln’t move opened programs between desktops Firefox and Winamp (possible … Continue reading →

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Defending Exchange server against spam with SpamAssassin

Posted on 2008/09/10 by amar

This short howto is written and done on Windows 2003 Server and Exchange 2003 Server. Because lately I (among other users) have begun to receive large number of spam on e-mail server of the company where I work, I have … Continue reading →

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Reinstall Windows XP without activation

Posted on 2008/08/31 by amar

If you had ever wanted to slip reactivating Windows XP after reinstallation here is one good tip from [Online Tech Tips]. There is only one file that is needed for sliping of reactivation and that is wpa.dbl which is located … Continue reading →

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