Tag Archives: microsoft

Disable IPV6 in Windows 2008 server or Vista

Today while installing 2008 failover cluster I got error or notification from SQL server that two of my servers have same IPV6 address. Because I don’t use IPV6 and I have disabled it in network properties it was a bit … Continue reading

Posted in Tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

"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

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

Posted in Tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

How to build antispam SMTP gateway for Exchange on Ubuntu 8.04

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

Posted in Linux, Tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | 32 Comments

Defending Exchange server against spam with SpamAssassin

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

Posted in Tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Virtual desktop

Sysinternals, company that was started by two programmers and latter bought by Microsoft, had always good freeware tools for administration of windows. Best thing was that they were freeware. Yesterday they have published a new tool with symbolic name Desktops. … Continue reading

Posted in Tips and tricks | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment