Using Tail to watch a log file
If you ever need to watch a log file to see if something goes into it, here is a cheeky command to do that. The -f says to watch for updates, the -n 500 shows how many lines to bring back.
Sharepoint 2007 with DPM 2010 – Item Level Backup Items not Appearing for Restoration
When Backup Sharepoint 2007, with DPM 2010, it catalougues MOSS items every 24 hours , if you need to force this operation to be able to restore item you can use powershell command. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff634233.aspx. Note this operation happens out of band from the normal backup, sometimes it will fail even though the backup is successful. … Read more
Exchange 2010 – UCC Certificate “The certificate is invalid for Exchange Server Usage”
I was getting the errors of “The Certificate is Invalid for Exchange Server Usage” to “The certificate status could not be determined because the revocation check failed.” Here is how I fixed them in our test environment before we deployed to live, the first error is a common one, the second one seems to only … Read more
Postfix SPF Error postfix-policyd-spf-perl SERVFAIL Workaround
We had an interesting one with Postfix, we were recieving mail fine from all other domains. Then one domain (in this case domain.co.uk) started not to get through, no changes had been made at our end. What was happening was that their domain.co.uk nameservers were not reporting TXT records properly, rather than reporting nothing or … Read more
Microsoft Outlook 2010 RTM – “Send As” Broken
Upon setting up a “send as” permission a mailbox for a user I got stuck. Even though the permissions on the user object were correctly setup for “Send As” when trying to send as a user with Outlook 2010 I kept on getting an error message. After double and triple checking the permissions I concluded … Read more
Microsoft Windows 2008 R2 Domain Controller with DNS Server Fails to Resolve Some External Domains
Upon the setup of the new Windows 2008 R2 DNS servers there is a problem that the DNS lookups for external domain fail; internal domain name resolution is unaffected. Restarting the DNS server (or the whole server) resolve the problem, as does clearing the cache. When the problem is happening, an nslookup command issued for … Read more
“Access Denied” Error when Depromoting a Domain Controller
When depromoting a domain controller I started to get this error: “The operation failed because Active Directory could not configure the computer account <COMPUTERNAME>$, on the remote domain controller <COMPUTERNAME>$ “Access is denied.” What I did to try and fix it: · Verified the “protect from accidental deletion” tick box not … Read more
Cisco 6509 Damaged POE Modules
We had a severe lightning storm with power cuts and multiple lightbolts hitting our buildings and grounds around our core server rooms. Luckly the UPSes carried the load and gobbled up the overvoltages etc no problem. However the lightning induced an over voltage in the copper cables that run from the Cisco 6509 POE Blades … Read more
BONKERS 7 – Millennium Madness
The seventh in the series welcomes back Hixxy to the series and he is joined by Dougal and Sy again. The Millennium madness brings in tunes like Binary Finary’s “1999” (Hixxy & UFO remix) and Force & Styles with “Sunshine”. More happy music to see in the new millennium. After the release of Bonkers 7 … Read more
BONKERS 6 – “WHEEL CRAZY”
The sixth in the series is some more high octane hardcore. But this time Dougal is joined by Sy and Vibes. At time of release the Bonkers series had become the best selling Hardcore series ever. Selling more than 300,000 copies. (Who said no one listens to hardcore anymore!) This time tracks like Brisk & … Read more