Category: Uncategorized

  • One of the most important things you can do is backup your infrastructure servers. Obviously DHCP is a critical service without it many devices cease to function on a reboot. We have DHCP servers with multiple scopes defined to take care of different subnets on the network for IP [phones, wireless AP and clients and…

  • I have found one of the main issues with FIT Aps on WX Controllers is the inability to monitor them effectively. I wish there was a way to monitor them with SNMP directly but it is disabled in most models. I have found that you can enable syslog via config file. I add a config…

  • This assumes your using the default passwords   Start Cygwin At the $ prompt type startx This will open a new window in that window type: ssh –Y app@”ip of your messaging server“ At the password prompt enter: nice I recommend performing the following steps as root so type: su And the password is: pvadmin…

  • I have been using 5412ZL HP Procurve switches for some time and recently noticed an alarming issue in my config. If I mistakingly logged into the switch multiple times and did not close them out properly I would be greeted with the following message: If I had access to the console port that might be…

  • At my place of business we use alot of MS Terminal Services 2003 coupled with a commercial linux distro that runs rDesktop called 2x. Alot of our ends users specifically needed to take pictures with their digital camera and upload them to the server(the camera is configured to display as a usb disk drive). This was…

  •  As I have worked with Sharepoint project I tried to ensure one thing: that a user should be able to customize and update any image, text, etc from within the browser easily. Well, What isn’t available for editing in the browser pretty much nothing. But do you want a end user updating something in a…

  • I recently took the Microsoft 70-631 WSS Configuration exam and passed it. I have this bit of info for those attempting to pass the exam: know both deployment scenarios around using publishing ISA Server 2004/2006 and Network Load Balancing (Unicast versus Multicast) nearly half the questions were focused on this and not on Sharepoint.

  • As part of my recent Sharepoint work I worked on finding a good Weather webpart the best that I could find was the following from http://blogs.msdn.com/ketaanhs/archive/2008/03/22/showing-weather-web-part-using-rss-weather-yahoo-com-in-sharepoint-2007.aspx The RSS feed I used was: http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?p=01541 And used the following XSL Spreadsheet: <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”ISO-8859-1″?> <xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″ xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform” xmlns:yweather=”http://xml.weather.yahoo.com/ns/rss/1.0” xmlns:geo=”http://www.w3.org/2003/01/geo/wgs84_pos#”> <xsl:output method=”html” indent=”yes”/> <xsl:template match=”/”> <xsl:variable name=”scale”> <xsl:value-of…

  •  As part of a implementation at work I have been trying to integrate applications (mainly SQL backend) applications into Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0 and MOSS 2007. While What’s Up uses SQL it comes with either MSDE 2000 or SQL 2005 Express in order to access it via the network you will need t enable TCP/IP access. I used Sharepoint Designer 2007 and…