Wanna want your exchange 2007 32 bits for more than 120 Days ? No you won't

Wanna want your exchange 2007 32 bits for more than 120 Days ? No you won't...
I got my Exchange 2007 (32 bits) out of evaluation period..Ok but i do have a valid serial.

1. No way to find how to enter the serial from the exchange console..Any way, this console doesn't have the full set of functionnality...
2. I tried from powershell...It refuses it ! standard or enterprise, it refuses both...
3. I found from microsoft website that you CAN'T license the 32 bits version... damned!

I agree that Microsoft doesn't support the 32 bits version, but 120 days is short..

Happy birthday, my blog!

hello,
you got it, one year ago i opened this blog... ! :)
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>4850 visitors (13/day on average)

I hope you like it !

HP prove bullet proof server - real test video

they make their server explose and count the time needed to make the disaster recovery!

Microsoft Surface: impressive

http://www.microsoft.com/surface/

Free Citrix tool: stress Printer Driver

With a free citrix account, you can download it here:
http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry.jspa?externalID=CTX109374&searchID=45234516

Many driver problems in the Terminal Services environment revolve around poor multi-threaded performance, which in turn can cause Print Spooler instability. Problematic multi-threaded performance is usually exposed when multiple users connect to a Terminal Server simultaneously using the same print driver. Symptoms include the failure to autocreate client printers, increased thread count of the Printer Spooler and/or Citrix Print Manager services, and possibly the unresponsiveness and/or unexpected termination of these services (crashes).
This tool can be used to simulate multiple sessions autocreating printers using the same print driver.
It can also be used to compare the following among various drivers:
• CPU load incurred while creating a printer using a particular driver
• Time required to successfully create a printer using a particular driver

Firefox crashing when opening many favorite at once

I got firefox crashing every time i try to open all favorites (60) of one folder. I tested desactivating firefox extension. Session Manager version 0.5.3.4 is the guilty one.
Damned !

detecting SSL version accepted by Web server

If you want to detect SSL version accepted by web server, you can use the free OpenSSL.
For the Windows version:
http://www.slproweb.com/download/Win32OpenSSL_Light-0_9_8e.exe

Then the syntax is:
openssl s_client -connect www.google.fr:443


By default, it will use the best crypto. You can restrict to only SSL V2:
openssl s_client -connect www.google.fr:443 -ssl2

Or SSLV3:
openssl s_client -connect www.google.fr:443 -ssl3


One interesting thing is the cypher accepted by the other peer:

---
Ciphers common between both SSL endpoints:
RC4-MD5 EXP-RC4-MD5 RC2-CBC-MD5
EXP-RC2-CBC-MD5 DES-CBC-MD5 DES-CBC3-MD5
---
SSL handshake has read 1004 bytes and written 239 bytes
---
New, SSLv2, Cipher is DES-CBC3-MD5
Server public key is 1024 bit
Compression: NONE

Vista : Windows Movie / DVD Maker

I had Windows Movie Maker and Windows DVD Maker crashing every time i tried to import a movie, even a true wmv one.
The eventlog entry about is:

Faulting application DVDMaker.exe, version 6.0.6000.16386, time stamp 0x4549b5b0, faulting module iac25_32.ax, version 2.0.5.53, time stamp 0x3dd40ee6, exception code 0xc0000005, fault offset 0x00003548, process id 0x249c, application start time 0x01c7a87b3c004190.

This was an incompatibility issue with ACE Mega Codec Pack. After removing it, both DVD Maker and Movie Maker are working great.

wget.exe with proxy

For those that whish to use wget on windows (wget.exe) but need to specify a proxy, here is the howto:

set http_proxy=http://myproxy:8080
wget --proxy=on http://my-url.com/....

HP officejet all-in-one 6310 and Vista issue

I am having issues with the Officejet 6310 and Vista. When i install the driver, everything is good and working. But when i switch the computer in sleep mode and then turn in back online, Windows tell me something got wrong and host process was closed. Here is the eventlog:

The only way i know to put it working again (reboot change nothing, printer disappear from the printel panel), is to uninstall and install again the huge driver (160M). When i try to uninstall, the setup behave poorly:

My officejet is connected through my lan, it may behave better through USB.

Update:

• I sent a mail to HP support. They ask me to stop hibernate. That's not even a workaround
• I installed an update for this printer which normaly wouldn't help. Except my troubles seems to be gone !
  

I switched to Firefox !

Yes, i switched to Firefox! I needed many add-on to get the same level of functionnality as Avant Browser. This last is great, but lack of update and has bug on Vista.
Here is the list of Module I use:
-ColorfulTabs
-DOM inspector
-FasterFox
-Firebug
-HTML Validator
-IE View
-MinimizeToTray
-PDF Download
-Session Manager
-SwitchProxy Tool
-Tab Mix plus
-TalkBack
-User Agent Switcher
-VideoDownloader
-Web Developer
-AS Numbers (BGP)
-ADblock Plus

For people using avant browser, here is how to get the same extra functionnality on FireFox:

-URL Alias: Create a Firefox Favorite, and then edit to add keywords. Then you can just type the keyword to convert to the full url.

-Search engine: I went to http://www.searchplugins.net/ to create my custom search:
-mskb: give it a KB number, you directly got the KB page (not a search result)
-eventID: give it an event ID, you get the result page from eventid.net

AD account Distinguishedname (full name) escaped with a "\"

I just ran into a strange thing, having an account with a distinguished name looking like : CN=LLAMOSI\, Faust, OU=XXXX,DC=mydomain,dc=local:

The mistake come from the full name which has a ",". Only the Display name may have it.

You cannot edit the distinguished name attribute with adsiedit.msc, because it is owned by "SYSTEM".

Thanks to Brandon Aiken for hitting the coma on the ActiveDir mailing list

Vista & old game : good story

While some current game will not run correctly on Vista, old may just run perfectly :)
That's my case with Unreal Tournament 2003, which is 4 years old !
have fun

Security Enhancements in Windows Vista

This article includes information about security enhancements in Windows Vista and how Microsoft used the Security Development Lifecycle to increase the security of the Windows operating system.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=6FB28358-68D9-43E9-B574-6A0D377BBA34&displaylang=en

Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Help

The Exchange Server 2007 Help can help you in the day-to-day administration of Exchange. Use this information to guide you through Exchange Server 2007 features, tasks, and administration procedures.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=555f5974-9258-475a-b150-0399b133fede&DisplayLang=en

Longhorn will be Windows Server 2008

now it's official, The final name for the new Windows Server will be Windows server 2008 !

the logo:

Bartpe: customizing the boot screen message

To get a more custom bartpe cd, you can change the boot message. Just add this to one plugin inf file:
[SetValue]
"txtsetup.sif", "SetupData", "loaderprompt", """V 1.1 Mathieu CHATEAU..."""

BartPE: including recursive folder of a plugin

If you want to include a bunch of folders and files inside a bartpe plugin, you can use this in your inf plugin's file:
[SourceDisksFolders]
files\MyFolder=Keytomyfolder

Free online/remote backup 2G: Mozy

hello,

i am just starting using a great free service to make secondary backup of my laptop:
https://mozy.com/?code=7FKB47

They offer 2GB. I am currently uploading at 700Kb/s which is great for my adsl.
Both access from the web of the client.
Working on my Vista

svchost / WSUS / eating 100% CPU

the WSUS client V2.0 may eat all cpu for quite a lot of time, from process explorer this is what you can see for svchost:


The bug comes from msi.dll and when you have Office updates. The WSUS V3 is out and should correct this