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Excel Text to Column & Manual Concatenate

Posted by Al Catoe On October - 13 - 2011 0 Comment

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Auto Domain Login for Windows 7

Posted by Al Catoe On March - 4 - 2011 0 Comment

 There’s an easy tweak that will let you autologin. First, we’ll need to get to the Advanced User Accounts Control Panel to get to this setting. Type in netplwiz into the start menu search box, hit enter. Note: If that doesn’t work, you can type in control userpasswords2 instead.  Uncheck the box that says “Users  [ Read More ]

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Bad Power Supply?

Posted by Al Catoe On November - 11 - 2010 0 Comment
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So my HTPC (home theater pc) recently started shutting off at random times. It was as if the power cord was pulled out of the socket with the exception that the USB ports were still powered. Once the HTPC was powered off due to this mysterious issue, the only way to turn it back on  [ Read More ]

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Ever Need a RAID Calculator?

Posted by Al Catoe On September - 27 - 2010 0 Comment
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In planning a DIY NAS, I was trying to calculate how many TB I would get if I used 8 2TB in a RAID 5. A quick search on google.com turned up a pretty neat RAID calculator that allows you to enter the number of drives and the size of each drive then select the  [ Read More ]

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Event 529 In Event Logs – Possible Solution

Posted by Al Catoe On August - 11 - 2010 0 Comment
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You can turn off authentication on the SMTP Instance, thus disabling the AUTH verbs for any external smtp access (for those not using 3rd party filtering), therefore disabling anyone attempting to send authenticated email. Everyone I know uses OWA/RWW, no need to leave authentication turned on for things that noone uses. One of the ways  [ Read More ]

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Stream Ripped DVD’s to Media Center Extender

Posted by Al Catoe On June - 2 - 2010 0 Comment
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Well, after searching high and low and everywhere in between, I found out how to successfully stream ripped DVD VOB files from my MCE 2005 PC to my extender. Read on to find out how! I came accross this article below from http://windowsmediacenter.blogspot.com and it is very detailed in how to accomplish this task. It is  [ Read More ]

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SBS 2003 Remote Web Workplace Login Loop

Posted by Al Catoe On May - 5 - 2010 0 Comment
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Users cannot connect to your Small Business Server 2003 computer by using Remote Web Workplace Article ID: 886206 – Last Review: December 3, 2007 – Revision: 1.3 http://support.microsoft.com/?id=886206 Users try to connect to your Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 computer by using the Remote Web Workplace feature. After the users type their credentials in  [ Read More ]

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IIS 6 File Upload/Download File Size Limits

Posted by Al Catoe On May - 5 - 2010 0 Comment
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When trying to upload files over 200KB on IIS 6 the file may never upload and you either get an error or are sent to a blank screen.  By default Windows 2003 server limits file uploads to about 200KB in size.  To overcome this limit you must edit the IIS metabase.xml file. Before you can  [ Read More ]

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Intelligent Message Filter – Event Error: 7515

Posted by Al Catoe On May - 5 - 2010 0 Comment
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You may see Event Id 7515 from the MSExchangeTransport pop up in the event logs of servers on which the Exchange 2003 SP2 Intelligent Message Filter (IMF) is enabled. This is because, by design, the IMF does not filter messages larger than 3MB. Microsoft released a KB that explains this, see KB 907691: “Intelligent Message Filtering  [ Read More ]

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Windows Logon Type Codes

Posted by Al Catoe On May - 5 - 2010 0 Comment
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The logon/logoff category of the Windows security log gives you the ability to monitor all attempts to access the local computer. In this article I’ll examine each logon type in greater detail and show you how some other fields in Logon/Logoff events can be helpful for understanding the nature of a given logon attempt. Event  [ Read More ]

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