Useful Sites
General
- [CA University
- Knowledgebank](http://www.cauniversity.org/knowledgebank?file=kb.php&action=view&id=99)
- Very good tutorials, especially on programming\
- Fasthosts.co.uk\
- [Streamline.net Unlimited
- Package](http://www.streamlinenet.co.uk/uu.php) Unlimited bandwidth and
- space for £45/year\
- Robotex Great IP investigation site\
- PHP Tutorial
Domino/Notes IBM Forum
SSL
Explorer
Installation info - free SSL VPN including web-based RDP
Trilithium.com
Good site
Manual Update of Symantec AV
Updates
Opera Keyboard
shortcuts
File sync utilities
ISP port blocking
listing
A reference of ISPs globally that block or do not block ports 80 and
443.
Very good subnet
calculator
Email address image/icon generator to create an anti-spam posting of
your email
address
Get cacheability of a web
page
ITIdiots.com Great
site
How to debug Windows services
Good for when you have a service hanging under 'starting' or
'stopping'.
HEX Colour chart
Windows Media Player Troubleshooting
Guide
Not broadcasting your Wireless SSID does not hide your
network
Determine the SID for a User
Account
Fun things to do with
SIDS
Kitty Putty replacement with transparency,
sessions saved as files, session filter and launcher.
Extract product/license
keys
Thumbnail/gallery
generation
Shareclip Sync clipboard
accross multiple computers. Available for Linux (DEB/RPM/TGZ-binary) ,
Mac OSX and Windows. Linux version requires libstdc++.so.5. Try the
compat-libsdtc++5 package on RH flavours, the package for Ubuntu can be
found here
Online Backup
- TwentHost (UK) Full SSH/scp/sftp/rsync/rdiff and tunnels. Unmetered bandwidth. 100Gb: £15/mth £150/year
- Rsyncit.com (US) Full SSH/scp/sftp/rsync/rdiff and tunnels. Unmetered bandwidth. 100Gb: $20/mth
- BackBlaze Offer "unlimited" online bakup for only $5/mth but there are a few stange caveats, notwithstanding restricted use of a propietry Windows/Mac client and a restore procedure that invovles a procress that could delete all your backups if followed incorrectly.
- ADrive 50Gb for free, web-based only. FTP access is $6.95/mth $69.50 / year
- IDrive Free 2gb of stoarege - also includes a tool to allow you to map a network drive. 150Gb of storage is $50/year
Windows Server 2003 / 2008
SQL Server
IIS
IIS Rewrite tools
See Rewrite on IIS that actually works
IIS6 cannot perform rewrite natively but it can do through the use of these plugins:
Linux Related
Bash / Scripting
Antispam
Networking
NFS
- https://help.ubuntu.com/6.06/ubuntu/serverguide/C/network-file-system.html
- http://www.openfree.org/pet/index.php/Mount_an_NFS_share_from_Windows
BIND
- Bind configuration Good general guide to bind conifg and zone config
- BIND Troubleshooting
- Restrict Zone Transfers
- Frequently Asked Questions about BIND 9 Good
- Bind 9 Configuration Reference Very concise
- DNS Resource Record Guide
MySQL
Apache
Squid
- Guide on setting up Squid 2.6 as a Reverse Proxy\
- Howto parse a Squid logfile with Awstats
- Basic Squid setup with file, domain, and ad blocking
- Squid with NTLM authentication
- Squid: Logfile Analysis
See Also: Squid Stuff
Perl
Outlook
- How to Work with Public Folders Offline Also improves search speed
MediaWiki
Wiki Stuff
Copy & Paste Excel-to-Wiki
Converter Also works
in any app that generates tabs between the cells in copied text - such
as Opera.
Mobiles
- ActiveSync General Troubleshooting Guide
- ActiveSync 4.0/4.1/4.2 USB Connection Troubleshooting Guide
- Blackberry stuck on egg timer
- Troubleshooting the device status on a RIM BlackBerry
Vista
- Disable Security Center Popup Notifications in Windows Vista
- Disable annoying need your permission to continue prompts (User Account Control)
Microsoft Exchange
- Mailbox/Brick level backups using Exmerge
- Offline Backup and Restoration Procedures for Exchange
- Simpler Web: Exchange/DNS Issues
- How to recover the information store on Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 in a single site
- Changing default email address for new users in Exchange using recipient policies
- How to configure RPC over HTTP in Exchange Server 2003
- Computer Performance: Exchange 2003 Good exchange site
- OutlookExchange.com Good site, has some very-technical resources
- Using Outlook 2003 to connect to Exchange 2003 using RPC over HTTPS
- Tips for Clustering Exchange Successfully
- Exchange Best Practice analysers
- Setting size limits for messages in Exchange Details the 8 different places in System Manager that message limits can be inposed.
- The 10 most common Exchange Server issues and how to avoid them
- How to defrag Exchange databases
- Bounce/Non Delivery Report when sending meeting request
- Removing Exchange
- Removing 1st Exchange Server (pub folders, sched+)
- Change SMTP Banner
- Moving mailbox considerations
- Guide to eseutil and isinteg
- Troubleshooting Eseutil
- Outlook 2007 on Exchange 2007 certificate error
- Standby Continuous Replication (SCR): Replay and Truncation Lag
- Configure RPC over HTTPS in a single server environment (Exchange 2003)
Auto-append text to all outgoing emails Exchange 2003 (disclaimers)
Exchange 2007 can append text natively
DR/Backup/Restore
- HOW TO: Reconnect a mailbox to another user on Exchange
- Error message when you try to remove an orphaned mailbox after a failed move operation in Exchange 2003: "The Operation cannot be performed because this mailbox was already reconnected to an existing user" Also applies to the same error when attepmting to reconnect mailboxes after a restore
- Using Recovery Storage Groups with NTBACKUP
- Exchange/Q_23319215.html Exchange 2007 Restore from NTBackup to RSG
- How Recovery Storage Groups Work
See also Restore using NTBACKUP (Exchange)
Outlook Web Access (OWA)
- Troubleshooting OWA when the contents frame displays “Loading” Also includes details on how to troubleshoot images not loading
- Resetting OWA Folder IIS security permissions Exchange 2003 Also has details on the OWA virtual directory folder structure
- OWA not displaying correctly
Downloads
Registry Related
Internet Explorer URL Action and Advanced Security Settings in Group Policy