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Remove FilterI am running exchange 2007. I have created a redirect in IIS 7 to go from https://mail.mydomain.com/owa to https://mail.mydomain.com. When I go to https://mail.mydomain.com I get the following error in my browser 403 - Forbidden: Access is denied.# Please can some help me. Thanks Jonathan
I'M reading "Linux + Guide to Linux Certification" and I've come to samba and I'M having trouble understanding a few things. The book says I need to add a username and password on the Linux system that corresponds to the username and password on the Windows clients? And then another …
OK, so I've got a Gateway FX P-7805u laptop with power up issues. Here's the whole story: One day, even though the laptop itself was plugged into the wall, when I hovered on the battery indicator, the windows 7 notification said "plugged in, not charging" and the battery was stuck …
I have recently installed Microsoft SBS 2008 and configured Exchange Server 2007. I can send and receive emails fine. When I goto www.mxtoolbox.com and test my smtp I get the following results "Warning - Does not support TLS". I would appreciate it if anyone could raise some light on this. …
My problem is simple but I can't find a solution, I have 4 folders that i want to organize in the format of mm-dd-yyyy for example the folders are 02-26-2007 01-01-2008 01-07-2008 02-27-2008 when I try to sort the folders by any combination it keeps going to the following order …
I am attempting to host multiple sites on a single server by using virtual hosts however I am having a bit of an issue. A bit of info before I begin, -I am using Ubuntu Server 12.04 -I am using Apache2 -I have two domains and two sites, stored in …
I just installed Ubuntu Server but I'M not getting any network activity, let alone an internet connection. When I type ifconfig I only get the local ip address of 127.0.0.1. I have connect the eth0 port to one of the open ports on my wireless router and I'M still getting …
I am attempting to setup virtual hosts so that I can host multiple sites on Apache2. I have currently got two files in my /etc/apache2/sites-available folder, each containing the following: <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName www.domain.com ServerAlias domain.com DirectoryIndex index.php DocmentRoot /var/www/domain </VirtualHost> Obviously the 'domain' changes to the domain for the …
I have an SBS 2008 with windows xp sp3 clients. If I configure the network card manually in ipconfig /all there is only one domain. When i let DHCP issue the address and dns information. ipconfig /all says there are two of the same domain listed in the dns suffix …
First of all, i apologise for my english... I am from Slovenia. So, lets get to the point. I am writting a research projet at collage (Computer Science) and i am writting about clone. I done it all, but stuck on the last exercise. I must write a program, that …
hi everyone , I installed wireshark on my ubuntu 11.10 laptop ,but it tells me no interfaces can be used for capturing with this configuration , so how can I solve this problem ?? Thanks in advance.
Hi all, I'm looking for a good tool for analysing Windows Server Event Logs. Basicaly, I want to be able to filter by types of entries or content, and search. If it has some smarts built in for things like highlighting suspicious behaviour that would be great too. I need …
I am running windows SBS 2008 with exchange 2007 WINS and obviously DNS and DHCP installed and configured. For some reason when I do ipconfig /all in cmd on cient computer my domain seems to be in twice on the DNS suffix search list and can't understand why. Any help …
Within the internal network I can remote desktop onto any computer using names. When I try to remote desktop into a computer over VPN PPTP using names. I get the following error "Remote Desktop can't find the computer "hcserv01". This might mean that "hcserv01" does not belong to the specified …
So, I have this filter at home which my parents installed so that i control my computer usage. The name of the software is "Blue Coat k9 web protection alert". I was ok with it for a few days but after observing for couple of weeks, it began to annoy …
I'M reading a linux book and I've come to a chapter on setting up a DHCP server. The thing is I don't understand why I would ever need to set one up. All the computers in our house are already using DHCP and I've never set up a server, why …
When I plug in my headphone, the speaker still sounds, how to solve this problem please, I can use alsamixer to adjust the total volume, but I just want the speaker stopped making sound after I plug in my headphone...Thanks for helping...:-)
I'M trying to move an 11 gig .tar.gz file that is pretty much one of my home usernames from my ubuntu laptop to my fedora desktop, here's what I'M getting. developer@garrett-laptop:~$ scp [email protected]:/home/develope/fromlaptopsaveDeveloper.tar.gz [email protected]:/home/developer/Desktop [email protected]'s password: Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied, please try again. Permission denied (publickey,gssapi-keyex,gssapi-with-mic,password). lost …
Hello im a beginner and i want to know how to reformat my computer using Windows 7 ultimate, please teach me the step by step procedure i have here cd's of nvidia and emaxxx i dont know what is that should i install those two things before reformatting the computer?? …
Hi all, i am new to ubuntu. I am using fire ftp for downloading my project locally in ubuntu but when i click on download, it says "Failed to create directory locally". Is it some root permission issue? if yes, then how i can download my project?
ok problem has been started 2 days ago first pc restarted for several times than it showed blue screen showing hardware issues than i tried to start pc through Linux live cd pc started i take all the backup form my hard drive to another portable hardisk than i tried …
I have been having some problems with my domain, when it reaches my server the address changes to my IP. I 'own' the domain, "www.domain.com" which is forwared to my router, my router then points it to my server and the pages are displayed e.t.c. Instead of displaying, "www.domain.com/index.php" it …
daniwebbers, This is my issue. I need to back up one server, that has server 2008 r2 installed. It does have sql server 2008 installed, but I successfully back up our databases every day so that is not an issue. In the event viewer this is the error I am …
I have been using Regseeker 1.55 under XP for years with no problems. My two sons have Windows 7 and when using Regseeker it shows up literally thousands of registry issues. But if selected and deleted (with backup) they still appear when the clean process is run again. Is this …
Hello, am currently troubleshooting a PC running XP SP3 Pro, and found that in the the taskmanager, under Processes tab there are 2 explorer.exe running. Anyone knows why? Virus scan and scan with Malwarebytes returned nothing, just in case...
Hello there, so this is my question about an upgrade I'm going to do. Will I get a bottleneck issue with the video card im about to buy with the motherboard and processor im using right now? motherboard - http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2471 (Gigabyte GA-MA785GMT-UD2H) processor - AMD Phenom II X2 545 (3GHZ) …
Hi, I am using ms word 2003. My native language is Malayalam (in kerala). Now my work is to translate the script of Disney's Aladdin to Malayalam. Sometimes i need to know the meaning of some words. MS word gives me a few synonyms in English. But i need to …
System restore doesn't work, AVG is suppressed, can't download Spybot, but thankfully HijackThis downloaded. Here's my log file: Scan saved at 7:45:01 AM, on 11/22/2008 Platform: Windows XP SP2 (WinNT 5.01.2600) MSIE: Internet Explorer v8.00 (8.00.6001.18241) Boot mode: Normal Running processes: C:\WINDOWS\System32\smss.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\winlogon.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\services.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\lsass.exe C:\WINDOWS\system32\svchost.exe C:\WINDOWS\System32\svchost.exe C:\Program Files\Lavasoft\Ad-Aware\aawservice.exe C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE …
Hello, anyone can suggest a free software (or paid) which could help me monitor the power usage on my computer system, like how much power is being used by the CPU, GPU, motherboard etc?
I had to increase the password's number of charaters. Then I put a long and new password (same passord for server and client) to adminsitrator. now I do not remember the password.help! I know how to boot and reset the local password. but this is active directory. help???
I used the wireless adapter(Netgear - WG111v3) on my computer for weeks without any trouble at all. (At the time i installed it, I remember I found out it didn't work/didn't work well on windows 7 so I downloaded some driver or something -- Don't really remember -- and it …
Hello, first apologies if I posted in the wrong forum, but am looking for some tools (free or paid), which could be use to help teams share ideas/documents and have discussions over a LAN using the web browser. Anyone who has used such tools can help me? Am currently having …
Whenever I try to connect to my website over my network (from any device), my browser gives me an error saying that it could not connect to the host. I've tried a proxy, as well as downorjustme, and it works fine. I've recently performed some database work, nothing too important, …
I recently formatted my PC, loaded Windows 98SE and now the pc is so slow that it is virtually unuasable. If I click on START, for instance, it takes about 30 seconds for the PC to act on the click. I have to assume it is a hardware problem. The …
Hi all. I am just beginning to play with Linux, so I have some very noob-ish questions. I am using the Cygwin console on a Windows 7 computer, connecting to a server running a Gentoo kernel. At the moment, I am exploring some of the *real* basic commands: cp, pwd, …
Hi, I'm a developer by trade but I've done some networking in the past (mostly buying and creating machine specifications but also a bit of firewall management and AD policies,) In a previous company I was even Manager of the Systems department (Developers and IT guys) Anyway I've recently joined …
Hi, I have just installed windows 7 on an old windows XP partition. It was big enough for XP but too small for 7. I can not use my Partition Magic as it is incompatible with 7, is there a free partition tool to resize my partition without problems like …
Hello, I believe I have a virus but I don't know what to do about it. Any time I try to download a program to fix my computer, it won't let me. Also, if I try to go to a website for an anti virus program, I get an error …
Hey, I have a problem with my microphone in windows 7 on my laptop (Dell Inspiron 1525). When I'm using "Listen to this device" feature the microphone recorded sound has a small delay. I mention that i have already installed the latest driver for my soundcard and that on Windows …
Hello all, We have a server with windows 2003 sp2 on it. My machine is running windows 7. Im trying to figure out why I cant remote in after the other I.T. guy was messing around in the server. The servers firewall has the exception to all remote connections, Remote …
do we need to insert a SIM(cellular/GSM) to a vehicle GPS if we want to track the location from the distance? (over the internet)
Hi, just got the dreaded BSOD stating Kernel Data Inpage Error. Happened to me almost 2 weeks ago and I don't even know where to begin finding what's causing it because I don't even know why or what causes it to happen. I've analysed the latest dump file from the …
My friend's computer was doing updates and it froze. He left it for 24 hours and it was frozen on a windows update. He finally killed the power and turned the computer back on, and nothing. The power light comes on, but no beeping, no fan, no monitor. I loaned …
Ok, so I have just set up a server using Ubuntu Server 12.04 but I have hit a bit of a brick wall when attempting to view webpages. I chown'ed the /var/www folder so I could add my files to it and all is working fine from this front but …
I'm using Windows XP Professional "Add/Remove Programs" and I'm trying to remove a program called Revo Uninstaller. However, I keep getting the message, File"C:\Program Files\VS Revo Group\Revo Uninstaller Pro\unins000.dat" does not exist. Cannot uninstall. I've gone into regedit and looked for any traces of it there but can't find any. …
As you can see from the title, I'm suffering the problem. developer.apple.com didn't provide much information about this, I have to ask for solution somewhere else. I already know how to up/down-load files and create directories, but the official reference doesn't say how to undo it. I hope some one …
I recently dispatched a newsletter via email. Each link in the newsletter pointed to a page on our website, and each link contained a query string that identified which newsletter a subscriber was responding to. The query string uses Google Analytics tracking code, so the links looked something like this... …
1. Is that possbble to boot an OS from a server thorough the network without having any Local OS? 1.1 if possible, are we doing all the things on that server? logged in using active directory? 2.if we logged into a PC on a netowork by using active directory account …
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