Samsung Omnia 7 and bluetooth carkit

Hi Everyone,

Sometimes the most difficult, annoying and most bugging issues come with the easiest fix ever. That same is true for using my Samsung Omnia 7 phone together with my build-in car kit from BMW. If you’re fed up with the cracking noice while making a call over bluetooth, or with the lost bluetooth connectivity at the moment you’re ready to pick up your call, grab your phone while you’re reading this and do exactly the following:

– Unlock your screen and go to SETTINGS
– Switch off your WIFI connectivity

Et voila, it’s as simple as that…

You cannot imagine how long that I’ve been struggeling with this issue. I searched the internet for many hours trying to look for a fix, bluetooth update or that one little thing that would fix my issue. Fortunately I’ve got a colleague with the same phone who came up with this idea.

Didier D’Joos

 

browsing your crashed AD with dsamain.exe

I’m sure every one of us encoutered this problem once: a server crash with no working backup of Active Directory, thus, no way to recreate the users / security groups…

Luckily, Windows 2008 (RTM and R2) introduced a nifty little tool, that enables you to virtually load the crashed domain onto another server. That way you can peak into the previous configuration, and take over all necessary information.

All users/groups/… are stored in a single file: ntds.dit. First, we need to make sure that the integrity of the file is good. In many cases, this will not be the case, as a crashed server often will be shut down unexpected. Following commands can help you troubleshoot and solve this:

esentutl.exe /g “c:pathtontds.dit”
this command checks the integrity of the database file

esentutl.exe /p  “c:pathtontds.dit”
this command repairs any errors in the database file

When all this ends successfully, you can start with the mounting process.

dsamain.exe -dbpath “C:pathtontds.dit” -ldapport 5532 -allownonadminaccess -allowupgrade

-allownonadminaccess: needed to be able to access the database with another set of security credentials than defined in the virtually mounted domain
-allowupgrade: needed if you try to mount a ntds.dit file from an earlier version of windows (e.g. windows 2003)

If all goes well, the command will return the following message:

Now you can use your preferred Active Directory Management tool to connect to this mounted domain controller, using localhost for the host portion, and the defined ldap port as the port option.

If you want to connect to is using ADUC, you right click the root hive in this window, and choose for “Change Domain Controller”

Using the information in the above example, you fill in localhost:5532 and press OK. You will now be able to browse the mounted domain.

Feel free to comment if you have any questions

 

 

 

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Setting Message Size Limits in Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007

Note to self: every now and then you need to enlarge the default 10MB message size limit on your exchange server to allow large attachment emails.

I have this link in my favourites as a “help” guide so i don’t forget to configure it on all the correct places where limits can be set.
http://exchangepedia.com/2007/09/exchange-server-2007-setting-message-size-limits.html by Bharat Suneja.

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outlook 2010 shows wrong icon in the taskbar in a remote desktop session

outlook 2010 shows the powerpoint icon in the taskbar in a terminal server session: see the screenshot

luckily there’s a hotfix for this problem:

Hotfix: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2519550/en-us

download and deploy…

First user group meeting jan 25 2012

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SBS 20xx(x) Notes From The Field

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