How to update DNS through DHCP automatically

October 2nd, 2008

If you are looking for configuration then you need it as follows:

Let us say domain is test.com
Domain nameserver, dns (named), samba and most of Linux services servers ip is 192.168.0.1
And network is 192.168.0.1/24 for dhcp ips are 192.168.0.10-60

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Horrid CPU Issues with VMWare and Hardware Interrupts

October 2nd, 2008

Original Article

So I fought this problem all day long. My Windows XP VMWare image was running like crap. I started to poke around. The first thing I did was to bring up the task manager. Sure enough, my virtual CPU was pegged at around 55-60% when the vm was doing nothing. This is not good!

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Change SBS Backup Selections

October 2nd, 2008

Run the SBSBackup wiz and make your selections as close as possible to what you want (or not, doesn’t really matter what is selected at this point) then fire up NTBackup. Programs, accesories, backup. Cancel the NTBackup wiz (if
it starts in wiz mode, default), go to the backup page and from the ‘job’ menu ‘load selections’. The SBSBackup wiz creates a selection file, Small Business Backup Script.bks in C:\Program files\Microsoft Windows Small Business Server\backup, it is this file you wish to load. Adjust the
selections in NTBackup and save the file.

Fix Application Error

September 10th, 2008

How to fix Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application

We get asked about this so much it deserves to be shown here. This error doesn’t mean a lot except that your site is broken. That’s not much help to you figuring out why its broken.

The error page does actually tell you exactly what you need to do to proceed, but for some reason, people don’t read it or think that they should not follow these directions. I remember the first time I ran into this error, and I didn’t follow the directions, so you aren’t alone if that describes you..
Server Error in ‘yourApp’ Application
Step 1:

* Open the web.config file of your application.
* Find ‘customErrors mode=”RemoteOnly” ‘.

Step 2:

Replace “RemoteOnly” with “Off”.
*** It is very important that you use capital “O” and lower case “ff”, as the web.config file is case sensitive, and if you get that wrong, you will continue to get the same error, even if you managed to fix the original error.
Step 3:

Run your application again, and you should now see a different error with the stack trace. This is the same way you would see the error if it was running on your own computer.

Full Text Search Fix

September 9th, 2008

For a corrupted Index file, please perform the following steps to try to resolve this issue:

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Properly Reinstalling SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

August 25th, 2008

From here

  1. Stop the default IIS web site.
  2. DO NOT SHUTDOWN IIS.
  3. Delete both SQL Server 2005 Report Server databases.
  4. In Control Panel, click on the Change button for the pertinent SQL Server 2005 install instance.
  5. Continue to select Report Server and the option to remove it.
  6. Reinstall Reporting Services by running the installer on the SQL Server 2005 disc.
  7. Once setup is complete, launch the Reporting Services Configuration tool with the Configuration Tools menu in your Start menu.
  8. Fix any red-X items in the list.
  9. You should be good to go!

Drain Smells

August 24th, 2008

Mr. HandyPerson has always used a half-cup of baking soda, followed by about a half-cup of warm water to get the baking soda down into the sink drain, and then he poured in a cup of white vinegar.

Bash tips

August 20th, 2008

Originally from here.

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Automating a Quicker Exchange 2000 or 2003 / DC reboot

August 20th, 2008

Original article here.

You can make the server execute a script at shutdown time by using the Group Policy Editor, which is an MMC (Microsoft Management Console) snap-in.  I will explain how to use the Group Policy Editor shortly, but first, we need to create the batch file that will shut down the Exchange services.

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Exim Tips & Tricks - Unclog your queue!

August 15th, 2008

Original article here

This article will focus on some general Exim MTA tips and tricks as well as how to parse mail logs. I originally put this guide together for use with Exim on cPanel. Many cPanel server administrators use the built in Exim MTA without giving it a second thought because it works. It works until they end up providing virtual hosting systems (shared hosting) where some of the users do not update their scripts regularly or simply think setting a cron job that runs every minute and clogs the queue is a good idea. Then running the built in Exim MTA with no knowledge of how it works becomes a disaster! Learn Exim today and save your self some serious headaches!

Is your Exim queue piled up with thousands or even millions of emails? Are you getting complaints from your upstream provider because your servers are sending spam? Are your users complaining emails that they are expecting aren’t coming in or take hours or days to get there? Are your servers blacklisted on the major lists and you have no idea why? If any of these situations describe your problems then this guide should serve as a good primer for you to get the basic idea of how Exim works. You can use the knowledge here to solve all of these problems!

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