Ramblings o' Techie

Thoughts, tips, tricks, and fixes for the IT person in you. I am an MCSE and support a wide variety of IT-related items at my job, including: Windows OS's, Exchange, Terminal Services, .NET, IIS, OS X, Microsoft Office, printers, phones, Linux, Adobe Creative Suites, and plenty of other hardware and software. Hopefully some of the solutions I find throughout the workday are useful to you as well

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Using "Run As" from the command line

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I needed to make some changes in Registry Editor on a machine, but didn't want to log out of the users account to get in as the admin. I...
Wednesday, December 23, 2009

View message size in Outlook Web Access

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I had a user with access only to Outlook Web Access who was trying to sort the message by size, but there didn't seem to be a column for...
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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Remove or upgrade a Macbook Pro hard drive

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I had a user with a Macbook Pro who had a hard drive that was about to fail. The hard drive was almost full too, so I wanted to make sure to...
Thursday, December 17, 2009

Slipstream Office 2007 service packs into install package

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You can integrate updates into your Microsoft Office 2007 installation the same way you can slipstream updates into your XP install disk. T...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Installing Windows XP in a VMWare ESXi environment, no hard disks found error

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If you attempt to install Windows XP in an VMWare ESXi environment (at least v3.0-3.5), don't be surprised if you get an error about no ...
Monday, November 16, 2009

Scripting a file transfer to an FTP server using a non-standard port (not 21)

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I ran into an issue last week while trying to automated a file upload to an FTP site using a port other than the default of 21. For some rea...

Windows command line FTP client that support PASV (passive mode)

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If you're trying to write an FTP transfer into a script and require a command line client that support passive mode transfers, you'l...
Friday, November 6, 2009

Restart Windows XP Print Spooler service

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Sometimes you may find it helpful or necessary to restart the print spooler on your Windows XP computer. This can happen if you're havin...

Networked HP 1022n printer not printing

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I have a user with an older HP 1022n laserjet printer at her desk, and all of a sudden today it stopped working. I found the jobs stuck in t...
Thursday, October 29, 2009

McAfee ePO 4.0 won't update repository or allow manual package check-in

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I was running into an issue with our ePO 4.0 server, where it wasn't updating the master repository like it should, and if I tried to ma...
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